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by Libbie Hegvik My parents met at Camp Eagle, Phu Bai, Vietnam, in 1969. My dad, Ben Thornal, was an Army helicopter pilot who had...
by Marilyn Walton WWII Eighth Air Force historian and US POW expert, Marilyn Walton, has generously shared her expertise with the VBC over the past...
by Todd DePastino Almost all the words we use when talking about the military derive from the French language. From attack, bastion, battalion, bomb, and...
The Department of Defense recently published its annual “Demographics Profile of the Military Community,” offering a comprehensive overview of the men and women serving in...
By Clem Blazewick In October 1966, I learned I’d be leaving Vietnam on December 15 for my next duty station, Camp Zama, Japan. When December...
By Todd DePastino Vietnam announced plans to build a $67 billion high-speed railway from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). Ground will break...
By Todd DePastino Bill Bonnamy’s website dedicated to the 319th Glider Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division has stories from scores of the battalion’s veterans. Some...
By Todd DePastino Bill Bonnamy’s website dedicated to the 319th Glider Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division has collected a wide-ranging archive of information related to...
By Bill Boswell, COL (ret), USAFR During a recent VBC Scuttlebutt, we talked about how the mission of the Guard and the Reserve has changed...
by Regis Rossa In January 1957, I was 18 years old and had just completed Airborne Jump School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Army...
by Todd DePastino Every one of us, when we were first learning to read, ran across the word “colonel” and pronounced it the way it...
by Anna Elizabeth “Betty” Robertson Digby Usually when I recall bygone days, my mind returns to the peaceful setting of my childhood and all is...
