Colonel Jack Jacobs, who entered military service through Rutgers ROTC, earned the Medal of Honor for exceptional heroism on the battlefields of Vietnam. He also holds three Bronze Stars and two Silver Stars. Jacobs was an adviser to a Vietnamese infantry battalion...
Medal of Honor Recipient Jon Cavaiani was born in Royston England, August 2, 1943, and moved to the United States in 1947 with his parents. Before joining, Cavaiani was classified as 4F due to a bee allergy. He then had negotiations with a doctor about his...
Billy Ray White was born in North Carolina. After high school he received his draft notice, which stated that he had 30 days to choose a branch of service. So at the age of 19, Billy joined the United States Navy. He did this for two reasons: first, the Navy would...
I was wounded on Feb. 22, 1968. We had come to a clearing divided by a stream. The APC stopped, we dismounted and checked for land mines. It appeared clear and after boarding the APC we drove 5 feet and ran over a land mine. The investigation afterwards indicated it...
This originally was written for Thanksgiving Day 2005 Although I frequently lecture and write about the Vietnam War, and my book Masters of the Art is based on my service there, I don’t have a repository of dates locked in my mind that steadily surfaces like a...
