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By Guest Contributor Briana Hilton Technology is transforming the way Veteran Service Organizations (VSOs) support those who served. Already in 2025, for example, over two...
Crewmen aboard the destroyer USS ARTHUR W. RADFORD (DD-968) participate in the traditional shellback initiation ceremony during Exercise Unitas XXI. The shellback initiation takes place...
By Vietnam Marine Veteran Rich Thurmond We called the United States “The World” in Vietnam. That’s how it felt. Vietnam seemed like another planet altogether,...
By Vietnam Army Veteran Jim Janicki After reading the “Coming Home After War” issue of VBC Magazine, I felt compelled to share my own story....
By Bob Smith with Barb Smith In August 1960, The carrier USS Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42), pulled into Livorno (“Leghorn”), Italy, one of the largest...
By Jane McKinley We had a rain last night. It thundered and I woke up sitting up. I imagine I’ll be more or less allergic...
From left to right: Michael Archer, Tom Mahoney and their senior drill instructor at Boot Camp Graduation, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California, August...
Jeff at Freedom Bridge, Seoul, South Korea, November 2006. (Jeffrey Rogers) By Jeffrey Rogers, TSgt, USAF (Ret.) Jeff Rogers served with distinction for over 20...
Author of The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton By Daria Sommers In 1969, when...
By David Nasaw Over one million Black men and women served in a racially segregated military in World War II, separate and unequal. Fighting in...
Jeremy in front of a destroyed Russian armored vehicle outside the former compound of the Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Omar, May 2002. (Jeremy D. Baker)...
Dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC,November 13, 1982. (Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund) By Diane Carlson Evans Earlier this year, Vietnam Veteran and former...
