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Western defense companies size up Vietnam’s military market
American and European contractors were out in full force for the country's biennial defense expo in Hanoi in December 2024.
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The US soldiers returning to Vietnam in search of mass graves
Vietnam’s civil war had been raging for more than a decade, and US involvement had grown from a smattering of military advisers and special forces to a sprawling army of 400,000. While the ...
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Vietnam’s military-run postal service is building robots to deliver on the country’s e-commerce boom
From warehouse sorting robots to delivery drones, Viettel Post is pinning its hopes on tech as the salve to an inefficient ...
Philippines accuses China's forces of harassing fisheries vessels in the South China Sea
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships and a Chinese navy helicopter harassed a group of Philippine fisheries ...
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Medals of Honor Awarded to 5 Soldiers from Korean War and 2 from Vietnam
Biden also upgraded the awards of the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest award for valor, to the Medal of Honor for two other soldiers who served in Vietnam -- Pvt. 1st Class Kenneth ...
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Warner Robins to break ground on long-awaited Vietnam veterans memorial
Leroy Gee, a 73-year-old veteran who served 30 years in the military ... a city built around Robins Air Force Base. Many veterans who served in Vietnam faced challenges upon their return home ...
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Land tribute for Vietnam veterans memorial in Warner Robins draws a crowd. Here’s more
About $300,000 has been set aside for the first phase of the project, which will include a marble wall engraved with the names of 1,584 Georgians who did not return home from the Vietnam War.
Stars and Stripes25d
‘Flat-out, straight-up American hero’: 2 Vietnam soldiers who rescued fellow troops in combat receive Medal of Honor
David was one of seven soldiers on Friday who served in the wars in Vietnam and Korea to receive the nation’s highest military award ... near Fire Support Base Maureen. “We got overrun, ...
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2 Vietnam soldiers who saved fellow troops in combat to receive Medals of Honor
The rest of the country will now, too, as Nelson and Kenneth David, who also fought in the Vietnam War, are the latest recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award for ...
USA Today25d
Delayed but not denied: Medals of Honor awarded decades after heroic acts in Korea and Vietnam
WASHINGTON — One soldier from North Carolina, shielding a wounded comrade he'd pulled from a downed helicopter in Vietnam ... to the Army. Cavazos and his soldiers destroyed the base and ...
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US military’s Pacific strategy shifts to survival mode as China gains strength
For almost half a century, the Philippines served as the linchpin of American military power in Asia. During the height of the Vietnam war, the sprawling Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base on ...
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Five Korean War vets to receive Medal of Honor including Fort Cavazos namesake
Biden will also award the Medal of Honor to two Vietnam War veterans ... the most widely known in Army history because of Fort Cavazos, the sprawling Texas base that was once Fort Hood.