Story by Erin Thompson | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 07.06.2023
On 15 July 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower authorized military intervention in Lebanon under the codename Operation BLUE BAT. Over the next three months, challenged by intelligence gaps, members of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Army occupied the Port of Beirut and the Beirut International Airport as peace-keeping entities....
Story by Master Sgt. Brian Hamilton | U.S. Army Human Resources Command | 05.14.2019
A burial service with full military honors is set for a U.S. Army soldier killed during the Korean War. The identity of his remains were unknown for more than 65 years. Army Cpl. John G. Krebs, 19, a native of Sterling, Illinois, will be buried on Friday at Calvary Cemetery in his hometown....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Human Resources Command | 04.22.2019
A burial service is set for a U.S. Army soldier who died during the Korean War. Army Corporal Frederick E. Coon, 22, a native of Fairview Township, Missouri, will be buried with full military honors on Wednesday, in Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth, Kansas....
Story by Franklin Fisher | Fort Benning Public Affairs Office | 11.09.2018
An American Soldier whose remains could not be matched with a name for nearly seven decades after his death in the Korean War, was borne to his grave at Fort Benning, Georgia, with meticulous dignity Nov. 3, 2018, by white-gloved Soldiers of the same regiment he’d served with at his death in 1950....
Story by Spc. Ryan Tatum | 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division | 02.28.2017
Veterans from the 24th Infantry Division remember their fallen comrades and add two to the memorial by engraving their names during a ceremony February 27, 2017 at Fort Stewart, Georgia the additional names were engraved on a separate granite slab attached to the memorial wall. Emotions were high before the ceremony amongst the 24th Infantry Division Veterans. Joy and happiness were the......
Story by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar | 335th Signal Command (Theater) | 11.07.2016
U.S. Army 1st Lt. William Funchess watched from the other bank as Chinese soldiers approached the river, undressed, and swam across naked, holding weapons and clothes over their heads. Once they hit his side of the river, they shook the freezing water off their skin, dressed, and ran into the forest – one after the other after the other. Thousands of them. It was November 4, 1950. When......
Courtesy Story | 3rd Infantry Division | 02.25.2014
News commentator, business consultant and former 24th Infantry Division commander retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, best known for the “Left Hook” attack during Operation Desert Storm, spent Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, touring his old stomping grounds of Fort Stewart, Ga., and speaking with 3rd ID senior leaders....
Story by Staff Sgt. William Sallette | 25th Infantry Division | 12.07.2012
“It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced, and it is quickly disappearing,” wrote Tom Brokaw in his book The Greatest Generation....
