SPC Donald McCune

Aug 16, 2019 | Army

Donald McCune wanted to be a fighter. He named his pets after characters in the fighter-pilot movie “Top Gun,” and when the time came, he asked to transfer to a unit that would go to Iraq. “He felt this was something he needed to do, and I’m very proud of what he...

SSG Jack M. Martin III

Aug 8, 2019 | Army

Jack M. Martin III dreamed of working as an educator or finding another way to help people when his time in the military ended, his family said. The 26-year-old from Bethany, Okla., was helping to resupply a school construction project in the Philippines when he was...

SSG Archie Mac Cameron

Aug 1, 2019 | Air Force, Army

Sergeant Cameron was the right waist gunner aboard a B-17F Flying Fortress heavy bomber, as part of 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bombardment Group, that was attacked by enemy aircraft and crash landed in the Atlantic Ocean about 40 miles off Padstow, Cornwall, England. ...

SGM James G. “Ryan” Sartor

Jul 30, 2019 | Army

Sgt. Maj. James G. “Ryan” Sartor, 40, a Special Forces company sergeant major, died Saturday (July 13th) during combat operations in Faryab province, Afghanistan, the Army announced. Sartor was assigned to 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne). He died from injuries...

Henry Johnson

Jul 29, 2019 | Army

Henry Johnson was the most famous member of the “Harlem Hellfighters,” an all-black National Guard unit that was among the first American forces to arrive in Europe during World War I. Johnson and his fellow African American soldiers spent their early days in the war...