Before and After Vietnam: Soldier Shares Story of Valor, Surviving PTSD
It’s been almost six decades since Jim Seibert served in Vietnam, but he can still recall his harrowing experience with vivid detail and emotion. It’s not exactly an easy thing to forget. Spending a year in the rigorous Central Highlands, surviving booby traps, gunshot wounds, and the threat of attack on an almost daily basis, […]
Wife of US Soldier Released from Federal Immigration Detention
NEW ORLEANS — The wife of a U.S. soldier was released Tuesday from a federal immigration detention facility where she had spent nearly a week after being taken into custody on a Louisiana military base. The detention of 22-year-old Annie Ramos, the Honduran born-wife of a U.S. Army staff sergeant preparing to deploy, prompted public […]
US Soldier Trying to Halt Wife's Deportation After She Was Detained on Louisiana Military Base
NEW ORLEANS — A U.S. Army staff sergeant is trying to halt his wife’s deportation after she was detained inside a Louisiana military base where the couple was planning to live together just days after their wedding. The effort to remove the soldier’s wife, who was born in Honduras and remained in a federal immigration […]
Letters from a WWII Soldier to His Sweetheart Offer an Intimate Picture of Love During Wartime
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Highlights from a trove of more than 200 love letters that tell the story of a couple’s courtship and marriage during World War II are now on display digitally through the Nashville Public Library, offering an intimate picture of love during wartime. The letters by William Raymond Whittaker and Jane Dean were […]
Missouri US Army Soldier Sentenced to Life for Murder of Sergeant
A sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole was handed down to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri Army Spc. Wooster Rancy in the murder of Sgt. Sarah Roque in 2024. Rancy, a 22-year-old combat engineer assigned to the 509th Engineer Company, 5th Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade, was found guilty by a military […]
Army Soldier Begins 20-Year Sentence After Killing Comrade in Barracks
An ex-Army soldier in Alabama has been sentenced to more than 20 years in a military prison after being convicted of killing a comrade during a fight in their barracks. Pvt. Brian Jones Jr., 24, pleaded guilty on Jan. 29 to one count of unpremeditated murder in the death of Pvt. Abdul N. Latifu, 21, […]
‘I Never Want to See it Again.’ Vietnam Soldier Recalls Deadly Napalm, Tet Offensive
It’s been almost 58 years since Army veteran Robert Hendricks witnessed some of the worst moments of the Vietnam War, but those stark memories remained burned into his subconscious. Hendricks, who was drafted into service in 1967, was in Vietnam when the infamous Tet Offensive began in January 1968 and saw firsthand the damaging effects […]
Army Soldier Travels 7k Miles, Surprises Cancer-Stricken Mother For Christmas
Last year was the first time that U.S. Army Pvt. First Class Patrick Konczal ever remembered not being with his family on Christmas. This year, with help near and far, he made a 7,000-mile trek to give his parents—including a cancer-stricken mother—a giant holiday surprise. Konczal, a 74D and CBRN Specialist, is stationed at Camp […]
Army Service, Then a Killing: Gilgo Beach Cold Case Leads to Arrest of Former Soldier
They met while serving in the U.S. Army, a shared military background that prosecutors now say sits at the center of a decades-old homicide tied to the Gilgo Beach investigation. Nassau County prosecutors in New York say Andrew Dykes, a former U.S. Army operating room technician, murdered fellow service member Tanya Denise Jackson in 1997, […]
Death by Firing Squad: Eddie Slovik Became the Only U.S. Soldier Executed for Desertion in WWII
Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War. He wrote and signed a confession admitting his crime. He refused five offers to escape punishment. He told his judge advocate he would desert again. And his case reached General Dwight Eisenhower’s desk […]