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CW4 Esther Stewart

A study on black WACs published in 1963 lists Stewart as the only black female warrant officer on active duty at that time. Stewart would go on to serve in Vietnam as a cryptographic technician with the 1st Signal Brigade from 1971-1972. She retired in the late 70s as...

LTG Walton Walker

After a distinguished career as commander of XX Corps during World War II and command of Fifth Army following the war, LTG Walton H. Walker assumed command of Eighth Army in September 1948. At that time, Eighth Army’s duties focused on the occupation of Japan and not...

CPO Shannon M. Kent

The ISIS-claimed bombing of a restaurant in Syria on Wednesday (January 16, 2019) killed an Army Green Beret with four children, a former Navy SEAL working for the Pentagon’s intelligence agency and a Navy linguist, the Pentagon announced Friday. The servicemembers...

MAJ Joseph Benjamin Anderson, Jr.

Corporate executive and military officer Joseph Benjamin Anderson was born on February 12, 1943, in Topeka, Kansas, to Pearl Gatewood and Joseph B. Anderson, Sr. His father was a widower with one son while his mother had two daughters from a previous marriage. An...

SP5 Jesse Don Hennig

JD Hennig joined at 22 , leaving a wife and baby. He wanted to make his father & country proud. He came home with honor having been awarded Army Commendation Medal by Gen. Westmoreland due to consequences of a visit to Nam by President Nixon, but he was spat upon...