A South Carolina lawmaker’s bill would waive the requirement that troops receive the Medal of Honor within five years of ...

Colonel Gerry Berry, USMC Ret. speaks next to the helicopter he flew in Vietnam during Operation Frequent Wind, a CH-46D(E) Sea Knight, callsign “Lady Ace 09,” during an event at the Flying ...

Sometime between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. on April 30, 1975 — 50 years ago today — the helicopters finally returned for the last Marines from Massachusetts. The Republic of Vietnam, widely known as ...

Suffering two broken legs and heavy bleeding, Capers continued fighting and directed his team in the counterattack.

Fifty years later, the surreal images of U.S. sailors and Marines scrambling to push ... futile effort to win "hearts and minds" in Vietnam. The helicopters had to go to make room for more ...

The Guinness World Records recognized a Vietnamese company for the most numerous multi-rotor/drone airborne formation simultaneously ...

He stated that even though he wasn’t in the navy, he did spend a lot of time repairing the helicopters that landed on the naval ships. Vietnam veteran and associate member of the Marine Corps ...

By the time Operation Frequent Wind ended, 71 helicopters had flown 682 ... during the final days of the war in Vietnam, visit the Fall of Saigon Marines Association page and read “Last Men ...

James Capers, Jr. received the Silver Star Medal in 2010 for actions in the Vietnam War ... the three of them. The helicopter that eventually picked up the three Marines was shot down.