Council on Foreign Relations

The First U.S. Combat Troops Arrive in South Vietnam

What began as a small deployment of U.S. Marines to protect an airbase at Da Nang in Vietnam escalated into one of the most ...
Capital Gazette

Medal of Honor upgrade likely for Naval Academy grad Ripley, whose Vietnam War heroics earned him fame

A Naval Academy graduate’s Navy Cross will be upgraded to a Medal of Honor after a congressional resolution passed last week.
Military.com

Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor

More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John Ripley will be awarded the Medal of Honor.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Marine’s disappearance in Vietnam remains a mystery. Family deserves closure.

Jimmy Jackson Jr. is among 28 service members unaccounted for who served in Vietnam and whose bodies were never recovered. In 1969, Lance Cpl. James W. “Jimmy” Jackson Jr. walked into a medical ...