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Southwood High School in Shreveport Louisiana saw 23 arrests over a mere three days due to fighting. The fights have ended now, however, since a group of students’ fathers have taken to patrolling the place. The students say the intervention Dads on Duty provide is working: “I immediately felt a …

USS Tang Navy Rear Adm. Richard O’Kane OCT. 25, 2021 | BY KATIE LANGE, DOD NEWS The USS Tang takes aboard aircrew members of downed aircraft and members of a USS North Carolina OS2U float plane that had landed to rescue the men off Truk Atoll, May 1, 1944. Tang was serving …

Huey in Vietnam By Eric Blehm In LEGEND, bestselling author Eric Blehm takes as his canvas Southeast Asia, and tells the unforgettable account of the U.S. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Green Beret (Studies and Operations Group) Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez, who risked everything to rescue a Special Forces …

Although the majority of the uniformed OSS SO and SI officers had received commissions in the Army or the Army Air Corps, there were a few naval officers and a couple of dozen Marines. The most famous Marine in the OSS was Major Peter Julien Ortiz, who with two Navy Crosses …

VeteranOfTheDay Marine Veteran Bea Arthur “For those of us who remember her best as the incisive Dorothy Zbornak on Golden Girls, Arthur’s Personality Appraisals read like those of her television character.” On Feb. 13, 1943, the U.S. Marine Corps put out its rallying call: “Be a Marine…Free a Man to Fight.” …

Bobby Brown is pictured on a 1949 baseball card photo. Sports Heroes Who Served: Baseball Star Also a Combat Veteran OCT. 5, 2021 | BY DAVID VERGUN, DOD NEWS Bobby Brown was a polymath — a person with broad-ranging abilities. He was a cardiologist, a World War II and Korean War veteran, and a …