NATO’s announcement of Steadfast Defender is the latest sign of alliance enhancement of the scale of its maneuvers since Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The United States of America wheelchair basketball athletes competed in the finals and won gold during the Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
For more than a decade, a push has been underway to get the Distinguished Flying Crosses awarded to Army pilot Capt. Larry Liss and co-pilot Tom Baca upgraded.
About 100 people gathered at Yokota for the event, part of a widespread tradition 22 years after the terrorist attacks that brought down the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and killed hundreds more at the Pentagon and in a downed airliner in Pennsylvania.
Larry Taylor, now 81, was an Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War and led a mission in 1968 to save a small group of soldiers trapped in a rice field by enemy fire. “When duty called, Larry did everything he [could],” President Biden said.
Larry Taylor, who retired as a captain, was an Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War and led a rescue mission in 1968 to save a small group of soldiers trapped in a rice field by enemy troops.
U.S. and South Korean combat engineers demonstrated their bridge-building prowess by moving an armored column across open water just 15 miles from the border with North Korea.