GRANBURY, Texas It was a reunion 42 years in the making. Joel Prothro and Jerry Sisler smiled and hugged each other at Granbury's Memorial Day parade. It had been four decades since their paths ...
Returning from Germany after a three-year tour, I was assigned to the 199th Separate Light Infantry Brigade, a new type of organization being activated for the Vietnam War at Fort Benning in Georgia.
CAMP SHELBY, Miss. (WDAM) - Members of an Army unit that trained at Camp Shelby during the Vietnam War visited the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby Friday. About three dozen veterans and ...
Jan. 8—Junior Edward Lott was born May 14, 1943, in Athens to parents Daniel Mason Lott and Ruth Kyle Lott. He enlisted in the United States Army and served in Vietnam with E Company, 12th Infantry ...
On May 28, 1969, Jimmy Mosconis and Jan Scruggs were deep inside a jungle in Vietnam with the rest of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade of the United States Army. Up to then, the two men had only ...
MARPLE — Though more than 40 years removed from their lives, family, friends and fellow soldiers of Ken Leonard had no problem recalling his sense of humor, adventure and duty. The 20-year-old ...
MARPLE – Though more than 40 years removed from their lives, family, friends and fellow soldiers of Ken Leonard had no problem recalling his sense of humor, adventure and duty. The 20-year-old ...
Allen Fasoldt ©Stars and StripesSouth Vietnam, April, 1967: Soldiers from Company C, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry, 199th Light Infantry Brigade slosh through a rice paddy as they're dropped off for a ...