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AWARDED. Bruce Crandall, 74, retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel whose rescue of 70 wounded during the Battle at Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam was depicted in the 2002 film We Were Soldiers; the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor; in a White House ceremony in which President...
The carnage at Bagram Air Force Base is still being assessed. One report had two Americans and a South Korean killed, with eyewitnesses saying anywhere from four to eight foreigners and at least a score of Afghans were among the dead or wounded. The bomber did not get too far...
Major General George W. Weightman, commander of Walter Reed, says another reason for the long tenure of outpatients - the average length of stay is almost 300 days - is that many wounded soldiers who had joined the volunteer army hope to stay in uniform. "We want to work with them as...
But as a top-notch hospital for soldiers wounded in the line of duty Walter Reed bridges two very different worlds - that of medicine and that of the military. It may seem harsh that recovering casualties have to assemble for formation at 5 a.m. But it is the army, after...
Still, as a military institution, the hospital has a responsibility to war casualties even after they leave the wards, a sentiment Defense Secretary Robert Gates stressed on Friday while announcing that an indepenent panel would indeed investigate the problems at Walter Reed. The wounded fight a daily battle long after...