The late Robert Duvall 's most famous role was Stetson-wearing Lt. Col. Kilgore in Apocalypse Now, but RadarOnline.com can reveal the swaggering soldier was based in reality. Duvall drew on a ...

Warrant Officer Stephen Peth was making his final turn at treetop level when he looked through the green Plexiglas above his head. In the landing zone below, South Vietnamese soldiers were standing ...

During the Vietnam War, a shocking phenomenon emerged inside the U.S. military known as “fragging.” Soldiers began deliberately attacking their own officers and non-commissioned officers, usually with ...

The term “fragging,” or the deliberate killing of your military colleagues, was coined during the Vietnam War. It was a ...

Retired Air Force Maj. Neil Black demonstrates prisoner code “hand jive”. (Photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) Neil Black was blindfolded, his hands bound behind him, and was forced to his knees.

When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight into hell. Alpha and Bravo Companies of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines—numbering ...

Jesse Bulldog walked the length of a traveling memorial dedicated to the 58,000 servicemembers who died during the Vietnam War. At each of the 141 panels, he stopped and wafted sage ash in a warrior ...