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SFC Elmelindo Rodrigues Smith

There was nothing to suggest in the early morning hours of July 27, 1935 that the new baby being born from the backwater town of Wahiawa on the island of Oahu was different from any other baby born that day. The baby boy of Hispanic-Asian descent was christened...

SFC Alwyn C. Cashe

Sergeant First Class Alwyn C. Cashe pulled six soldiers from the burning hulk of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, while himself on fire and under fire from insurgents who set the ambush. He willingly sacrificed his life to rescue his fellow soldiers. On October 17, 2005,...

SSG David Bellavia

In 2004, on the day he turned 29, then-Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia charged into a darkened house in Fallujah, Iraq and fired his weapon at lurking insurgents as the squad he led scrambled outside. “Staff Sgt. Bellavia single-handedly saved an entire squad,...

SGT 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins

Sgt. 1st Class Elliott Robbins, 31, died Sunday [June 30, 2019] in a noncombat incident in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, while serving in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, according to a Pentagon report. The incident is under investigation. A Green Beret,...

MG Nathanael Greene

A major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, Greene was the son of a Quaker farmer, also named Nathanael, and Mary Mott. One of nine children, he was born at Warwick, Rhode Island, on August 7, 1742. Though his father’s sect, called the...

SSG Albert Leon Mampre

Army Staff Sgt. Albert Leon Mampre, who served during World War II with the famed Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division depicted in the HBO series ‘Band of Brothers,’ was laid to rest on June 15th, the Army...