This year marks a handful of important anniversaries in the history of the Vietnam War ... the show's producer, told Military.com. "It is very much about the human experience of the war.

Cmdr. Clyde Lassen piloted a dangerous rescue mission in 1968 to save two Naval aviators shot down in the jungle ...

John Wayne's Vietnam War film The Green Berets was backed by the government, portraying a very narrow view of the ...

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 ...

The election of 1976 was the first presidential election since the end of the Vietnam ... military continued to search for deserters, such as Allen Abney, who deserted from the Marine Corps in ...

Paul Eugene Poirier, who died in Vietnam at 24. A field wireman, Poirier served in the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry E Company. His cause of death, April 13 ...

Leroy Gee, a 73-year-old veteran who served 30 years in the military ... in Vietnam are heroes, and some gave their all." For veterans like Gee, who lost a cousin in Vietnam in 1968, the memorial ...

He assumed the post after a lengthy Pentagon career and used his influence as defense secretary to expand military eligibility ... before his assassination in 1968. His son Robert F.

With Trump now demanding that Panama cede the canal back to the United States, and threatening to use military force if ... America was reeling from the Vietnam War, stagflation, oil shortages ...

The military task force statement ... Jim Webb, Class of 1968, one of the most highly decorated Marine infantry officers of the Vietnam War, became the junior senator from Virginia in 2007 and ...

The Kerner Commission Report (1968) Appointed by President ... to pay this price in the face of escalating military costs for the war in Vietnam. The 1968 Election Richard Nixon, the Republican ...

For most of its history, the United States has been blessed with a favorable strategic geography, primarily in the sense that ...