the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Sea Service Deployment Award Ribbon denoting seven awards, the Navy and Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbon and the Navy and Marine Corps ...

The Navy on Saturday commissioned the USS John Basilone, its latest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, named in ...

"He perished during this effort." For his valor, Collart will be posthumously awarded the service's highest noncombat award: the Navy and Marine Corps Medal. It is an honor awarded for acts of ...

More than a dozen Congressional Medal of Honor recipients endorsed former ... Tim Walz, the recipients said they believe that "fabricating military service is beneath the dignity of a veteran ...

A Colorado Springs police officer at the annual Medal of Valor ceremony in September. The city police department has responded to several mass shootings in recent years, and many officers now ...

and it marked the beginning of the end for racial separation within military units. In 1948 with the demand for civil rights mounting, President Harry S. Truman ordered desegregation of the Armed ...

The medal may be awarded not only to members of the Society but also to non-members and to representatives of any nation. Members of the ACS Board of Directors are ineligible to receive this award.

Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the Royal Gold Medal is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence either directly or indirectly on the advancement of ...

For the first time in Olympic history, China won the gold medal in the group competition. Israel took silver (its first group all-around medal as well) and Italy bagged bronze at the Port de La ...

With pressure mounting to ... of civilian and military awards that prompted a rare rebuke from the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

China won two women's gold boxing medals at these Games. Though this was chronologically the second, it was as groundbreaking as the first (in the bantamweight division). Wu began with real ferocity ...