Christmas carols played in the mess hall at supper and the calendar said “December 24, 1969,” but it didn’t feel much like ...

Bluegrass music has never directly aligned with the general behavior of the mainstream country music scene. Never has it adapted for the sake of popularity and profit, and never has it bent or broken ...

Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling into what should have been a routine advisory mission. Detachment A-342, ...

Nathan visits a Navy Seabees base; all about trailer hitches; repaint galvanized railing. Nathan Gilbert travels to a Mississippi Navy Seabees base, where he learned carpentry as part of his naval ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WJAR) — The wounds of war run deep. "It was emotional and it's still emotional," said Lee Hardgrove. Some returning home from Vietnam were advised not to wear their uniforms.

One of their mottos, “We Build, We Fight” lays out exactly what they bring to the table in U.S. military warfighting and defense. If you want to know about the seven different ratings of the Navy ...

The Navy is turning out in force starting Monday for Navy Week in Wichita Falls, but the seafaring military branch already has a home in the city. The Center for Seabees and Facilities Engineering ...

In this two-part series, former U.S. Navy Seabee Mel Pierson talks about his combat duty during the Vietnam war, and his struggles with alcohol addiction after he left the service. Read more about ...

Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexis Reyes, a native of Parrish, is serving in the U.S. Navy assigned to Naval Construction Battalion 14, which was recently participating in Baltic Operations in ...

Seabees often work long hours and must be able to build and repair this infrastructure quickly, under harsh conditions, and during wartime. The Seabees were formally established on March 5, 1942, to ...

The year is 1969, the height of the war in Vietnam. The United States has been involved for about four years at this point and the war is growing more and more unpopular by the day. The Vietnam War ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Debbie Aziz didn’t know U.S. Marine Corps staff Sgt. Vincent M. Tomalka, but that didn’t deter her from coming to honor him and 99 other fallen comrades. “I joined the American Legion on ...