There is a need now more than ever to show law enforcement officers that we recognize the difficult and sometimes impossible career they have chosen in public service. Since the first known line-of-duty death in 1791, more than 21,000 U.S. law enforcement officers have made the ultimate sacrifice. Most officers choose this position not for […]
Medal of Honor
Air Force Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
Air Force Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on August 22, 2018. Chapman, a combat controller, will be the 19th Airman awarded the Medal of Honor since the Department of the Air Force was established in 1947. He will be the first Airman recognized with the medal for heroic […]
Air Force Unveils Monument to The Fallen of Lima Site 85
There is a remote mountaintop in north-eastern Laos called Phou Phathi, and the locals said it was a place where phi, or spirits, lived. By the end of March 1968, it had claimed a few more souls, and the ghosts of a divisive conflict would linger on in American history. The Phou Pha Thi mountain is the highest in […]
Men of Bronze – The Harlem Hellfighters
After Action Review (AAR) Men of Bronze – The Harlem Hellfighters Origin of the Harlem Hellfighters: Men of color have served in every American conflict since the Battle of Lexington in 1775. During the 1860s, freemen and former slaves flocked by the thousands to wear the blue uniform of the United States in segregated units […]
