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written by Jerry Augustine Jerry Augustine of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam preparing for an ambush patrol in 1966 with a 10 cent...
Viviana Hall is an Argentine-born American poet who recently sent us an unpublished poem, “For Freedom,” she wrote in response to the ongoing war in...
To paint or not to paint? That was the question for US Army and Navy Air Forces in World War II. In late 1943, the...
The letter below is excerpted from Annette Langlois Grunseth’s award-winning book, Combat and Campus: Writing Through War, which chronicles her brother Peter Langlois’s combat experience...
Written by Jim Roberts The story below is adapted from Jim Roberts’s book, MAT 111 Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1971: Stories from 33 Quebec’s Tour of...
[yotuwp type=”videos” id=”KlpzwL-37HE” ] During World War II, 43,000 young men chose not to serve in the military due to religious reasons, identifying themselves as...
By Phil Metzler In the spring 2023 issue of VBC Magazine, we ran an article about the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949. Army veteran Phil Metzler...
Photo credit: Rose Carlo Gantner VBC member Richard Sand reports that on May 22, 2023, former Navy pilot Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) introduced House Resolution...
Elizabeth Anne Helm-Frazier retired from the Army as a Master Sergeant after twenty-five years, ten-months, and twenty-six days of military service. Elizabeth held a variety...
Join us on Saturday, September 16 at 7:00pm ET (4pm PT) to mark National 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion Day with a screening of the...
By Bob Podurgiel Common Milkweed seed pods are about 4 inches long, inflated looking and covered in little bumpy projections. They are green initially, turning...
By Todd DePastino The story about the accidental Tootsie Roll airdrop at the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir ranks among the greatest in American military...
