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Navy Chief Petty Officer Fred McGuire > U.S. Department of Defense > Story

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Navy Chief Petty Officer Fred Henry McGuire's medical training was desperately needed when an inland patrol he was on in the Philippines was attacked in 1911. McGuire was credited with saving the lives of two fellow service members. For his selflessness, he

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A Life to Remember > U.S. Department of Defense > Story

A group of airmen in an honor guard stand at attention in a cemetery.

On a beautiful late summer day, Vietnam War veteran and former prisoner of war Air Force Col. Joseph Kittinger Jr. was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, surrounded by family and friends.

The Air Force Honor Guard and Ceremonial

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New Museum Addition Captures Realism and Legacy of Post-Vietnam Era > U.S. Department of Defense > Story

Mannequins dressed as Marines rest next to a tactical vehicle in the desert while the Marine on top looks through binoculars in a museum exhibit.

A museum's new exhibits feature hundreds of artifacts from all major Marine Corps operations from the end of the Vietnam War through operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Keil Gentry, director of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia,

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New Museum Addition Captures Realism and Legacy of Post-Vietnam Era

A museum's new exhibits feature hundreds of artifacts from all major Marine Corps operations from the end of the Vietnam War through operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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