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Gregory D. Gadson, Retired Army Colonel, Joins SoldierStrong Advisory Board
SoldierStrongMay 6, 2021 GMT
STAMFORD, Conn., May 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Retired U.S. Army Col. Gregory D. Gadson has joined the advisory board of SoldierStrong, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the nation’s military veterans by providing them with revolutionary medical technologies to help them take their next steps forward in their lives after service.
“With over 25 years of military service and a continued commitment and passion for advocating for wounded veterans, Colonel Gadson has dedicated his life to being of service to our country and to others,” said Chris Meek, SoldierStrong co-founder and chairman. “He understands the value of teamwork and collaboration, which coupled with his military experience and the extraordinary efforts he has made in providing
Army Ranger Legend to Receive Medal of Honor at 94
Gen. Ralph Puckett Jr visits U.S. Army Rangers who are competing in the 2021 Best Ranger Competition on Fort Benning, Georgia, April 16, 2021. (U.S. Army/Sgt. Kelson Brooks)
3 May 2021
Seven decades ago, Army 1st Lt. Ralph Puckett knew his outnumbered Ranger Company had to defend a hill in northern Korea against hundreds of determined Chinese infantry.
In below-freezing temperatures, Puckett led the men of the 8th Ranger Company to repel five enemy assaults against their perimeter on Hill 205. He was wounded three times but still managed to call in artillery on the enemy shortly after the position was overrun.
A former Special Forces soldier who served at Fort Bragg has been indicted on 10 charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
Retired Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey McKellop, 55, of Virginia, was arrested March 17, according to court records from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C.
McKellop served more than 20 years in the Army, including 9 years with Special Forces and serving in the 3rd Special Forces Group, which is at Fort Bragg, his military records show.
Records also show that he retired out of Fort Bragg and honorably retired Aug. 12, 2010.
The charges
McKellop has been indicted on charges of: assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, inflicting bodily injury; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon; civil disorder; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; diso
By DAN LAMOTHE | The Washington Post | Published: April 30, 2021 WASHINGTON Shivering in freezing temperatures, about 50 U.S. soldiers braced for the worst. Hundreds of Chinese soldiers were about to launch a series of bloody attacks on the hill the Americans had just taken under fire, and no reinforcements were within a mile. The clash that then-1st Lt. Ralph Puckett and his soldiers experienced that night on Hill 205 came at the outset of the Battle of the Chongchon River, a pivotal moment in which senior U.S. commanders were surprised by China s full-scale entry into the Korean War. Thousands of U.S. soldiers died in following days as they withdrew hundreds of miles back into South Korea in what the Army now describes as the longest retreat in U.S. military history.
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Puckett is broadly known for his service in the Korean War, when Chinese forces launched a wave of assaults on Hill 205.
The withdrawal from North Korea back to South Korea is one of the longest in U.S. military history and cost the lives of thousands of U.S. troops.
During the retreat, Puckett, then the commander of the Eighth Army Ranger Company, was wounded by a hand grenade in the first attack but kept at his post. He is also credited with ordering “danger close” artillery strikes near his own position to blunt the Chinese soldiers’ advances.
“I had been wounded three times by then, and I was lying there in my foxhole unable to do anything,” Puckett later said for an oral history project. “I could see three Chinese [soldiers] about 15 yards away from me, and they were bayoneting or shooting some of my wounded Rangers who were in the foxholes.”