The Beaver County Times captured a great shot of Gene Bowser in his WWII Navy jumper at our picnic last week, the VBC’s first in-person event since the pandemic. Gene, who turns 95 this month, talked about serving on the USS Bremerton (CA-130) as a “Jack O’ [of] the Dust.” What the

The Veterans Breakfast Club has partnered with Vitalant (formerly, Central Blood Bank) to address our nation’s critical blood shortage. The VBC Blood Drive is part of Vitalant’s “Give Blood Give Back” campaign. For everyone who gives blood through the VBC, the Blood Science Foundation will make a donation back to our organization.

We received notes from Vietnam veterans about our Scuttlebutt episode on the music of war, especially Vietnam. Here are two remembrances by Vietnam veterans Rich Doerr and George Dvorznak:   Music to My Ears by Rich Doerr On May 17, 2015, I was watching the final episode of Mad Men.  The TV

by Todd DePastino  Ten years ago, I toured the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, with a group of World War II veterans, including Charles Utz. We stopped at the rear of a B-17 bomber, and Charles began talking. He told me of being shot down on Christmas Eve

Syrian Su-22 being shot down by US F/A-18E (US Navy) Our guest with Pete Mecca on Thursday night at 7:00pm, USAF Col. (Ret.) Cesar “Rico” Rodriguez, is only American pilot to shoot down three planes in the past 40 years. What happened to air-to-air combat? Why so few dogfights since

by Derek Sansone (wikipedia.org) Military history is rife with D-Days—but none like the one that took place 77 years ago on June 6, 1944. Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, began the liberation of Western Europe. The operation was an unsurpassed masterpiece of planning, as several historians have noted.