Three Marines were awarded Bronze Star medals and Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for their life-saving in actions near Kabul five years ago.
An Army warrant officer assigned to the Eighth Army in South Korea has earned the prestigious General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award.
Two Marines from the Vietnam War and a soldier from the war in Afghanistan will be presented the nation’s highest award for courage under fire.
President Trump will preside over a medal of honor ceremony Thursday for heroes in the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. Task & Purpose reported Maj. James Capers Jr., who led his Marine reconnaissance team through a harrowing ambush despite serious wounds, will be awarded the highest military honor. In April 1967, Capers led a nine-man team from 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company to a helicopter landing zone despite suffering bullet and shrapnel wounds and a broken leg. “It was an attempt to save my troops,” Capers told Task & Purpose this week. “It wasn’t heroism. It might have looked that way, but it wasn’t about Jim Capers. It was about the 10 men that I had and the dog’s body that I wanted to get home.” NewsNation's Kellie…
Retired Lt. Col. Christopher Glover disrupted an insider attack in Afghanistan in 2007.
Air Force Maj. Michael A. Blea, assistant director of operations assigned to the 480th Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Wing, was awarded the Silver Star during a ceremony at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
On "Saturday Report," the parents of fallen soldier Michael H. Ollis joined to talk about their son being awarded the Medal of Honor by President Trump.
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jayson Johnson’s injuries were treated in 2012, but a bullet fragment remained lodged in his arm until it was discovered in 2025.