Written by Dave Lozier Last year, in our fall 2021 issue of VBC Magazine, we ran a story on the Navy’s phase-out of the venerable Navy peacoat in favor of the “Black Cold Weather Parka.” We received many responses, including this moving story from Army veteran Dave Lozier. Sailors with the
Written by Galen Peterson Galen Peterson in Iraq, 2008 Galen Peterson is a foremost expert on modern tank combat, having learned the subject first-hand as a tank platoon leader and company commander in Iraq. Galen is author of the memoir Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy and has lectured
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Gus” Pagonis takes a rare break from running his 40-acre horse ranch to join our VBC Coffee Hour next week to talk about leadership and lessons learned from masterminding logistics for Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990-1991.
Roland Glenn served as a platoon leader and company commander in the 7th Infantry Division in World War II. He saw his first combat in Okinawa, an experience that forever changed the kid from Western Pennsylvania. "I was in charge of leading about 200 soldiers, an enormous amount of responsibility for someone 20 years old.
. . Paul G. Zolbrod of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania was shipped off to the Army during the heart of winter, 1953. He was twenty, and like so many other young men during the 1950s, Mr. Zolbrod was drafted into a quietly raging military conflict on the Korean peninsula. Some call it The Forgotten
. . Al Zimmerman was still in high school when Pearl Harbor was bombed, and he still remembers people screaming about what had happened and listening to the radio for more information. He had an older brother stationed at Hickam Field in Hawaii, and unlike today it took several weeks for
