Specialist [at that time] Stephen Long, Alpha Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion survived nearly dying in a combat air assault on the island of Grenada that saw three of eight helicopters in the first wave crash. Major Stephen Long was one of the one hundred and...
1SG Glen Harris of Bravo Company, 3rd Ranger Battalion survived the terrible battle of Mogadishu, Somalia – the Black Hawk Down battle – to later drown in the Chattahoochee River at Fort Benning, Georgia during a training exercise when his parachute landed...
Chuck Yeager, byname of Charles Elwood Yeager, (born February 13, 1923, Myra, West Virginia, U.S.), American test pilot and U.S. Air Force officer who was the first man to exceed the speed of sound in flight. Yeager enlisted in the U.S. Army in September 1941, shortly...
Sammy Davis took some ribbing in the Army because he shared a name with the famous entertainer. Much later, long after his military days were over, he would again gain some acclaim among his old comrades, this time as the “real” Forrest Gump. Davis enlisted in the...
Sgt. Kevin A. Gilbertson, 24, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany; died Aug. 31, 2007 in Landstuhl, Germany and was buried in Cedar Rapids, IA September 11,...
