Infantry 351, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The other day, Jim Knotts, President and CEO of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, ran across our video of Vietnam Veteran, Marine Dan Vaughn, talking about the flaw in the Three Servicemen statue above at one of our Veterans Breakfast Club events. Jim kindly passed
Scud missiles riveted the attention of cable news outlets during Operation Desert Storm in early 1991 when Iraq launched 88 of these notoriously inaccurate and unstable weapons at Saudi Arabia and Israel. At 8:30pm on February 25, a Scud struck a United States Army barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 members of the
Thank a Veteran! Do you know a veteran in the Pittsburgh area who is making a difference in the community? Nominations are now open for the following two prestigious awards: 2023 Pittsburgh Veteran of the Year This award recognizes a veteran from southwestern Pennsylvania who exemplifies the finest qualities of our military and who gives selflessly
Efforts are underway to fly Great Britain's only Douglas C-54 Skymaster to Germany in 2024 for the 75th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. The Skymaster, serial number 56498, flew in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War before being struck from the list of military aircraft in 1972. Now, the British
Written By Ray Voith Ray Voith invites everyone who came of age during the Vietnam War to share their stories of that tumultuous period. You can do so by contacting him through his website or by emailing him ray.voith@att.net. The Asian-inspired fieldstone seminary at Maryknoll, a hill on the outskirts of Ossining, N.Y.
Written by Bill Moran At our last Veterans Breakfast Club event, we talked about the uses and abuses of the M1 steel pot helmet, which was standard issue from 1941-1985. After the event, Vietnam veteran Bill Moran, who served in the 199th Light Infantry Brigade (B Co, 5th Bn, 12 Inf) from October 1969
