The Army now recognizes a perforated eardrum as a qualifying combat-related injury for award of the Purple Heart, according to a new MILPER message released this month. The change went into effect ...

An update to Army regulations makes active-duty members and veterans who suffered a perforated eardrum during combat service entitled to the Purple Heart. Previously, a perforated eardrum was not ...

Michael Weimer is set to become the Army's next top enlisted leader in August ... including details on multiple Purple Hearts and Bronze Stars for valor. He takes the role as the service ...

An Army physician now stationed at Fort Hood’s Carl R. Darnell Army Medical Center in Texas received the Purple Heart earlier this month two years to the day after he was wounded during an ...

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MAGNOLIA, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Corporal Frank Humes' Purple Heart has traversed multiple ... Frank was drafted into the U.S. Army in November 1968. He was just 19-years-old. He served as a sniper ...

After 73 years and a long fight with the U.S. Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who was wounded in combat finally got his Purple Heart medal on Friday.The Army notified Earl Meyer ...