Patricia Smith’s family considers military service part of the duty of being a U.S. citizen. And no one in her family hesitates to serve. He...

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Boiler Technician First Class Thomas Ennis Lockwood was a neighbor. We lived next door to each other in a large, mostly military apartment complex off...

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In the early 1950s, the Chief of Civil Engineers, United States Navy was designated as the construction agent for the Department of Defense in the Sou...

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Following the very soul wrenching mission to the Tan My LST port project in I Corps which I described in “Monsoon,” I returned to Headquarters in Saig...

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For five days between September 13-17 the USS Stormes fired more than 1,300 rounds of five-inch ammunition, killing more than 300 enemies and wounding 50 more, providing support for a South Vietnamese ground force that was under enemy attack.

On May 27, 2011, crewmembers were honored with the MUC.

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It was the summer of 1966. I was continuing my duties as Flag Lieutenant and Aide to the Atlantic Fleet Civil Engineer. One of our more important proj...

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Ironclad, Jonathan English's realistic portrayal of the savage battles that occurred in the months following King John's signing of the Magna Carta, made it's debut during the GI Film Festival's "Wounded Warriors Appreciation Night" on May 14.

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Dr. James Nicholson of Greenville Texas, formerly PFC Nicholson of G Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division has been informed that h...

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 In commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the U.S. Navy Memorial invited some of the nation’s preeminent Civil War historians, authors and lecturers to share their thoughts, opinions, artifact collections and research during “Civil War at Sea,” a day-long multi-media symposium.

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By Commander Ed Bookhardt, US Navy Retired It was early 1965; I had survived the humility of the Ensign and Junior-grade years and was promoted to Li...

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