The Department of Defense has identified Staff Sgt. Matthew V. Thompson, a Green Beret, as the U.S. service member killed on Tuesday when an IED exploded near his patrol during a mission training Afghan forces.
Thousands of people lined the streets of California’s Coronado Island on Friday and stood silently as the hearse carrying the body of falling Navy SEAL Charles H. Keating IV passed by in funeral procession.
The Administration is finally willing to describe the shooting that killed four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tennessee as a terrorist attack, and the Navy has announced that the victims will receive Purple Hearts.
Specialist Andrew Brown told ABC News the story behind injured military dog Rocky, who gained fame after a picture of him with his Purple Heart went viral on Facebook.
American hero Spencer Stone was released from the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento on Thursday, one week after he suffered life-threatening stab wounds outside of a nightclub while defending a woman.
The search is on for the men who stabbed American hero Spencer Stone’s, leaving the U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant in critical condition on Thursday outside of a bar in Sacramento.
Surveillance video was released Thursday showing American hero Spencer Stone, 23, being stabbed in the upper chest as he fought off several men outside of a club in Sacramento.
Spencer Stone, one of three American heroes who thwarted a terrorist attack on a crowded French train last month will receive the Purple Heart on Thursday afternoon in the central courtyard of the Pentagon.
A California Vietnam Marine Corps veteran fought off a bear attack outside of his Mariposa County home last week with his bare hands.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) says he will make sure the four Marines and a Navy Petty Officer killed during the attack on a Navy training center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, receive Purple Hearts.
This was supposed to be the moment where John Kerry would finally make the history books. Or, at least, make the history books for something other than losing the presidency to George W. Bush in the midst of a wildly unpopular war in Iraq, which, if you think about it, is a pretty remarkable feat.
The family of a Fort Hood soldier who was killed in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage was presented his Purple Heart medal in a ceremony in Minnesota. The presentation was made during an “American Day” ceremony in St. Paul, Minnesota.
U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh announced that the Army will provide “all possible benefits” to victims of the 2009 Fort Hood Shooting. The announcement comes less than one week after the Army presented Purple Heart medals to 36 soldiers and family members of those who were killed in the shooting.
This government will never be able to cleanse the shame of classifying the Fort Hood jihad attack as “workplace violence,” but at long last, after five years of bureaucratic battle, Purple Hearts have finally been awarded to the soldiers killed and injured by the traitorous Major Nidal Hasan.
The Purple Heart medal was finally presented to 47 wounded soldiers, civilians and to the families of those who were killed in the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood. Under cloudy and cool Texas skies, Fort Hood had a day of honor and recognition for the survivors and the dead and those who were wounded by Major Nidal Hassan in the worst terrorist attack on a military base in the United States.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) will attend the Fort Hood Purple Heart Ceremony Friday in Ft. Hood, Texas.
WASHINGTON — The secretary of the Army has announced his approval for awarding the Purple Heart and its civilian equivalent, the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom, to victims of the 2009 terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas.
