By Todd DePastino Vietnamese teachers line up in matching dresses and take photos, recognizing International Women's Day. Photo from VBC's 2018 Tour of Vietnam On our VBC trip to Vietnam in 2018, we checked into our hotel at Halong Bay on March 8. As each woman in our group entered
Pete Mecca’s Conversation with Dick Cole, 2017 Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. You can see this interview on Pete’s site here. LT COL. RICHARD ‘DICK’ COLE AND AUTHOR PETE MECCA WWII Days at Falcon Field lived up to expectations once again this past weekend. A gorgeous
Our Spring 2021 issue of VBC Magazine features photos of 19 veterans, each with a unique story of service to tell. Hit the "+" to zoom in on the cover. Then click on each photo to hear each veteran's story. *We recommend using Google Chrome or Internet Explorer instead of Safari to
Mystery has long surrounded the Stealth Fighter F-117 Nighthawk since its official retirement in 2008. Supposedly hidden away in a remote desert boneyard, F-117s have been spotted flying out West over the past few years. Now, the USAF announced, the F-117 is back. The F-117 Nighthawk was the first “stealth” warcraft, an
Popeye's father, Poop Deck Pappy (popeye.fandom.com) Like a pranking middle schooler, we asked our Navy veterans last Wednesday morning if they could tell us what a “Poop Deck” was. They could, kind of, with a little help from the internet. Poop decks, located in the rear superstructure of the ship, belong mainly
If Admiral Chester Nimitz hadn’t spotted it on a map, Ulithi might have gone completely unnoticed by US forces as it island-hopped across the Pacific. Such an oversight would have cost the Americans the largest and best anchorage in the world and the perfect location for staging its final assault on the
