On Sept. 26, 2024, the Dustoff Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act became law. President Joe Biden signed ...

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Henry Brady, 88, of New Braunfels, won the Congressional Medal of Honor for 'extraordinary courage' as a medevac pilot.

The medal was proposed by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in late 2023. President Joe Biden signed the bill, “Dustoff Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act,” into law on Sept.

who pushed hardest for the gold medal. He mounted a decade-long battle to convince Congress to bestow it, asking Cornyn to get his office to write the bill. No other units from the Vietnam War had ...

Lawmakers are working to award the Congressional Gold Medal to retired Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr., who spent eight and a half years in captivity after being shot down during a bombing mission during ...

26, 2024, President Joe Biden signed the “Dustoff Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act” into law. This gold medal recognizes the pilots, crew chiefs and medics who “served ...

A distant whirling noise that kept getting louder was the sound of desperately needed help arriving in the raging chaos of ...

U.S. Navy Lt. Clyde E. Lassen, Venice High School Class of 1960, earned the Medal of Honor for his actions on the night of June 19, 1968, when the then 27-year-old helicopter pilot recovered two Naval ...

More than a dozen Congressional Medal of Honor recipients endorsed former ... The recipients include those who have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. "We believe that American citizenship ...

It consisted of two fighter jets spending the better part of two hours flying in racetrack patterns at 20,000 feet between the ship and the border of a hostile country: Vietnam ... read like a ...

The Dustoff Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act recognizes Army medical evacuation helicopter crew members — pilots, crew chiefs and medics — “who served honorably during the Vietnam ...

After the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives approved the Dustoff Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act, President Joe Biden signed the legislation Sept. 26 ...