William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

Dakota Meyer, a Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Afghanistan War ... He killed at least eight Taliban insurgents. Firing from a gun turret on top of a Humvee driven by a ...

In 2011, Meyer was the first living Marine in almost 40 years to receive the Medal of Honor. He received the award two years after he was involved in a brutal gun battle in Afghanistan's Kunar ...

Afghanistan Medal of Honor Recipient Reenlists in Marine Corps ... He killed at least eight Taliban insurgents. Firing from a gun turret on top of a Humvee driven by a fellow Marine, he provided ...

The U.S. Army is opening a new research facility named after Medal of Honor recipient Sgt ... behavioral system innovations on the individual warfighter and squad.” ...

William Shemin was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor nearly 100 years after his ... of that to hold their ground, using machine gun nests and occasionally mustard gas. Amid the fighting ...

"That's an example." In 2011, Meyer was the first living Marine in almost 40 years to receive the Medal of Honor. He received the award two years after he was involved in a brutal gun battle in ...

As he approached the crest of Hill 424, he ran into a wall of machine gun and small arms fire ... that day and was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor, which was presented to his father.

The citation when he posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Richard ... size hostile force employing automatic weapons, satchel charges and hand grenades.” ...

Sensing the opportunity to ambush the infantry squads, the entrenched enemy force erupted with machine gun and small-arms fire against the two squads at the center of the village, killing the ...