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 ...

Gen. Gary Brito, commanding general of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, presented Moores with the Silver Star — the nation’s third-highest military decoration for valor — during a ...

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

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 ...