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The Vietnam Veterans Who Fought for Modern PTSD Treatments Vietnam veterans fought a second war at home to get recognition and treatment. That fight created the modern VA mental health...
‘I Never Want to See it Again.’ Vietnam Soldier Recalls Deadly Napalm, Tet Offensive Robert Hendricks, a U.S. Army veteran, shares his harrowing story of surviving the Tet Offensive and the effects of napalm...
‘We Love Him’: Vietnam Veteran Continues Service by Volunteering at Fort Carson Sharing his stories from Vietnam with younger soldiers is part of his mission on base.
Woman Needs Help Bringing Her Father, An Unclaimed Veteran’s Remains, Home Meagan Heisinger is asking for help to bring her father, an unclaimed veteran's, remains back home to Colorado.
North Vietnam's Best General Beat France at Dien Bien Phu, Then Failed With the Same Tactics Against Marines at Khe Sanh Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French...
Hamburger Hill Veteran Finally Receives Bronze Star Army veteran George Layman was a radio operator during the bloody Battle of Hamburger Hill in 1969. After waiting decades, he...
Operation Linebacker II: The Bombing Campaign That Forced North Vietnam to the Peace Table in 1973 North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
VA Study: Ozempic, Other GLP-1 Drugs May Fight Addiction Across Every Major Substance For the more than 48 million Americans with substance use disorders, including a disproportionate share of veterans, GLP-1...
US Navy Sends Submarines Under Arctic Ice for 100th Time in Milestone Exercise The U.S. Navy has reached a Cold War-era milestone in the Arctic, deploying two Virginia-class submarines beneath the polar...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-12/960px-hai_duong_bridge_bombing_1972.jpg?itok=Y77-8urK "A U.S. Navy LTV A-7E Corsair II (BuNo 157526, pilot Michael A. Ruth, call sign "Banjo") of Attack Squadron VA-195 Dambusters bombs the Hai Duong railway and highway bridge in North Vietnam. VA-195 was assigned to Attack Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) for a deployment to Vietnam from 17 February to 28 November 1972. On 10 May 1972, "Operation Linebacker I" commenced, the U.S. Navy's contribution to the air offensive against North Vietnam consisted of 176 attack sorties, 60% of them flown by A-7 aircraft. (Wikimedia Commons)")
