The group hosting the event, Mission 22, hosts events and walks across the U.S. to raise money for veterans and their families and raise awareness about veteran suicide
Barry Ogletree, a Jeep collector in Lufkin sets up six army vehicles in front of his shop. He says it’s taken him 25 years to collect WWII vehicles and parts.
The East Texas Council of Governments has announced that it has received a quarter of a million dollars from the Texas Veterans Commission to use for transportation for veterans via GoBus.
Veterans on the Brookshire’s/Super 1 Foods Heroes Flight played witness Tuesday morning to the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
Operation Finally Home gifts a new house to a former U.S. military interpreter, Al Ahmady. Also known at Johnny Walker, the interpreter helped the Navy SEAL's from 2003 to 2009
Camp Billy Machen Memorial Park is an area in Gilmer dedicated to the first U.S. Navy SEAL to die in the Vietnam War. After many years of pushing for it by Steve Dean, it finally got recognized
Seaman Amareon Cooper, from Norfolk, Virginia, and Seaman Deandre Cook, from Brownsboro, Texas, assigned to deck department’s forward division, heave a mooring line in the forecastle aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) during sea and anchor as the ship departs from Naval Air Station North Island, Oct. 1, 2024.
For 17 years, the Texas Wounded Warriors has both honored and celebrated the Texan veterans. On Monday, they were a part of a special ceremony hosted by the students and teachers from All Saints Episcopal school in Tyler.
An East Texas veteran who served our country in Iraq and Afghanistan received a surprise in an email. She learned she is going to be on the next Heroes Flight to Washington D.C.
The annual mission is designed to strengthen relationships and improve U.S. and partner-capacity to deliver humanitarian assistance and disaster-relief preparedness.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Paul Wells, a native of Lufkin, Texas, provides beneficiary care and expeditionary medical readiness while serving at Navy Medicine Readiness Training Unit Bangor in Washington.
Petty Officer 1st Class Erika Buie, a native of Athens, Texas, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 106, which operates the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet.
“He received his congressional medal of honor in his service as a marine in the Vietnam conflict,” Victor Lofgreen, the commander for the American Legion Post 86 in Nacogdoches, said of U.S. Marine Oscar Austin.
Helen Smith was well known to veterans and politicians as an advocate for veterans rights and the POW-MIA issue. She passed away on Nov. 23 at the age of 97.
Remembering those who have ensured freedom in the United States over the generations was the focus of a solemn event across the country today, as well as in East Texas.
On Monday, December 4th The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Ron Forrester who was lost during the Vietnam war, was identified after being mia for over 50 years
A US Army soldier surprised her young daughter at her school trip Friday after returning from an overseas deployment in an emotional reunion captured on video.
