When a huge wave of Viet Cong troops threatened to overwhelm Army Sgt. 1st Class Sammy Lee Davis' battalion at…
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When Army Staff Sgt. Clinton Lavor Romesha woke up on a remote outpost in Afghanistan in 2009, he likely didn't…
Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Lewis George Watkins served his country in the Navy during World War II, but when the…
Army 1st Lt. George Seanor Robb commanded several soldiers in a famed military unit fighting in the trenches during the…
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