FORT BENNING, Ga. (Dec. 14, 2018) - Chaplain (Maj.) Eric Park knows all too well the disappointment of waking up on Christmas Day to no presents or gifts. "I was a child who grew up in poverty," said ...
On May 28, 1969, Jimmy Mosconis and Jan Scruggs were deep inside a jungle in Vietnam with the rest of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade of the United States Army. Up to then, the two men had only ...
Jan C. Scruggs volunteered to go to Vietnam just after graduating high school. As a young 19-year old infantryman, he served with the 199th Light Infantry Brigade of the U.S. Army. He was wounded and ...
COLUMBUS, Ga. -- The Maneuver Center of Excellence and the 199th Infantry Brigade are scheduled to host a Centennial Leadership Symposium at the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia, Aug. 27 ...
Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 199th Light Infantry Brigade, along with some South Vietnamese troops, are photographed on patrol in the area of Can Giouc, South Vietnam, in April, 1967. (See story) ...
South Vietnam, April 1967: Sgt. George Edmonds carries a wounded Vietnamese child to a helicopter on a patrol by the U.S. Army’s 199th Light Infantry Brigade in the area of Can Giouc. The boy had been ...
Memorial Day remembrance of the KIAs from my unit when I served as a patrol leader. My combat Regiment was D-5/12,199th Light Infantry Brigade, (Redcatchers), in Vietnam, 1968/69: Potter, Wesley R.; ...