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Authorities are continuing to investigate the situation.

Authorities are continuing to investigate the situation.

Authorities are continuing to investigate the situation.

Two stories of revolts by US troops, including the shooting of a top sergeant and the mutiny of Bravo Company at Firebase Pace near Cambodia, written by Richard Boyle, a war correspondent who spent three tours in Vietnam.

For mid-valley communities, Memorial Day isn’t just a once-a-year kind of recognition. Between memorial highways, parks, plaques and statues, this area is known for honoring its veterans — those who

The raid happened April 7 in the area of North Fourth Street and West Gordon Street in the city.

3 FORT POLK, La. – The 1st Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment (Geronimo) braved wet, frigid conditions during the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 23 to run the Yarborough Mile. Since arriving at the Joint Readiness Training Center in 1993, the unit has executed the 3.1 mile course nearly 60 times in the austere conditions of Fort Polk’s swamp land, but this running marked a first. Geronimo invited 90 leaders from throughout Operations Group to join teams and assault the Ya...

BROOKS AVENUE CHRISTMAS The story of a building and a woman and a bad night and a good day   Van Stanley walked out near closing time two days before Christmas, onto the sidewalk along Brooks Avenue, in the dark of a winter night, and saw him. Her alarm and reaction were as much instinctual as anything else, he was saying something she couldn’t make out, and moving toward her, and she retreated. A step, and another step, and a turn and run and a bolt through the door.           �...

By LTC Craig Roberts, USAR, Ret. Nov 2013 Soldier of Fortune             In the early morning hours of January 31st, 1968, Communist forces across South Vietnam began an offensive that would later become known as the “Tet Offensive.”  For months the attacks against American and South Vietnamese bases had been planned and organized. The North Vietnamese generals, led by Minister of Defense Vo Nguyen Giap, had planned the attack to coincide with Vietnam’s Lunar New Year, a ho...