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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...
Photos by Ed Zirkle For the second year in a row, photographer Ed Zirkle kindly traveled from Ohio to capture the action and great spirit...
by Andy Nigut Andy Nigut served in Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division in I Corps near the DMZ in 1968, when...
Launching of SS Arisan Maru (Wikimedia Commons) by Rona Simmons In 1943, the Japanese began emptying their Philippine prison camps and shipping able-bodied POWs to...
