After graduating from Airborne and Ranger schools, he was selected for Special Forces in 1962. Previous honors : Davis has received the Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart and Air Medal.

After leaving the armed forces (they spent 10 years together in the Special Boat Service) they decided to create a business. While the initial idea was to design for the civilian market, they ...

President Joe Biden is awarding U.S. Army Col. Paris Davis, the first Black officer to lead a Special Forces team in combat, with the Medal of Honor.

Davis was one of the first Black officers in Special Forces and joined during a period when violence tied to preventing racial equality in the U.S. was at a peak and as Army units were desegregated.

Thirty years ago today, the U.S. military was involved in a brief but brutal battle in Somalia. In a series of firefights over two bloody days, 18 members of America’s most elite Special Forces ...