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Below is Part 2 of VBC veteran Jerry Augustine’s account of serving in 1966-1967 with B Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 196th Light Infantry...
By Todd DePastino West Berlin native Bibi LeBlanc is collecting firsthand memories of the Berlin Airlift—one of the Cold War’s defining humanitarian missions. In this...
By Bill Spanos I was living where I still reside today, in Arlington, Virginia, during my final Army assignment before retirement in 1985. As a...
By Todd DePastino Sixty-one Americans wear the Medal of Honor. On December 17, one of them walked into a Veterans Breakfast Club event. On Wednesday,...
By Todd DePastino On January 12, 1962, the United States quietly crossed a threshold in the Vietnam War. What came to be known as Operation...
VBC veteran Jerry Augustine published harrowing accounts, with photos, of his service in 1966-1967 with B Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 196th Light Infantry...
By Todd DePastino VBC member Sue Watson has let us know that Warrior Canine Connection (WCC) has named its latest service dog after our own...
By Donn Nemchick The United Service Organizations (USO) established a tradition of sending comedian Bob Hope and a troupe of entertainers to Vietnam and other...
By Todd DePastino We want to share this wonderful Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame video about VBC veteran and retired Army Major Terri Swank. Terri...
By Todd DePastino Today, reading the Military Times, I learned that the fast-food chain Taco Bell is named after the founder, Glen Bell. I also...
The Rand Corporation has released its latest Summary of Veteran-Related Statistics with information gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey in 2023. The...
By Ed Fender The Vietnam War—officially a “Conflict,” since Congress never declared it—has been written about endlessly. Rather than re-analyze it, I set down my...
