Full eligibility criteria for the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary and Service medals are contained in Department of Defense Manual 1348.33, Volume 2, Manual of Military Decorations and Awards.

The Medal of Honor is the nation's highest medal for valor in combat that can be awarded to members of the armed forces. The medal was first authorized in 1861 for Sailors and Marines, and the ...

A picture of the medal is available on the U.S. Air Force website. For more on military medals, see the Military.com Medal section.

The need to create trophies and medals for Para athletes arose at the Stoke Mandeville Games – the predecessor of the Paralympic Games and Paralympic Winter Games – which began in 1948. While today, ...

When my big brother Joe died two years ago at age sixty-three, alone on his bedroom floor in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, he had more than sixty tattoos on his body but no teeth. Years of anxious clenching ...

Fly de Vesquerie, the horse which helped Elodie Clouvel to a silver medal in the modern pentathlon in the Paris Olympics, is to be awarded France's Bronze Medal of National Defence, AFP learned on ...

A man who sold fake military medals and poppy pin badges has been ... as a director of a company for five years. A confiscation order was made to get the money back but at the time Lyttel was ...

Listening to the war stories of heroic soldiers who risked their lives for the sake of their country, saved comrades on the battlefield or received awards ... order to get selected for a military ...

The military isn't supposed to police Americans, but there are exceptions. Former President Donald Trump says active-duty or National Guard troops could be used to go after "radical left lunatics ...

The U.S. military trained him in explosives and battlefield tactics. Now the Iraq War veteran was calling for taking up arms against his own country. The Navy's fierce and ongoing battle to stop ...

McDowell left the service five decades ago, but had not received his medals until Friday’s ceremony. One of those is a Purple Heart medal given to people wounded in combat. “Fortunately God ...

Former President Donald Trump said that “if really necessary” the military should be called for “some sick people, radical-left lunatics,” when asked about if he is expecting chaos on ...