Army Staff Sgt. William Owens was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for defending la fiere bridge during ...

Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 ...

Clint Romesha ran through a hail of bullets and RPGs as 300 Taliban fighters pressed a massive attack on Outpost Keating in Afghanistan on Oct. 3, 2009. The Taliban had the high ground and poured ...

but that award was upgraded June 12 to the Silver Star, the third-highest combat decoration that can be awarded to a service member. Cyr received the award this week from Maj. Gen. Thomas Drew ...

The Silver Star is the “third-highest military combat decoration that can be awarded to a member of the United States Armed Forces,” according to the Department of Defense. It is awarded for ...

Although Richards was originally recommended for the Silver Star, he was awarded the Bronze Star instead. But Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro chose to upgrade Richards’ decoration as “a ...

3rd Infantry Division World War II veteran and Silver Star recipient John Gojmerac ... the insignia of France’s highest military service decoration on his chest Saturday, John Gojmerac didn ...