A women's unit of Vietnamese Traffic Police march during a military parade in Ho Chi Minh City marking the 50th anniversary of the end of Vietnam War. (Chris Trinh / For The Times) Last fall, Vietnam ...

Robert Hendricks, a U.S. Army veteran, shares his harrowing story of surviving the Tet Offensive and the effects of napalm bombs.

Vietnam veterans fought a second war at home to get recognition and treatment. That fight created the modern VA mental health ...

Marine Corps veteran Clarence “Eddie” Freeman’s last memories of Vietnam were seeing it from a helicopter as American forces ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam elected Luong Cuong, a military general, as its new president on Monday, the fourth official to fill the largely ceremonial role in 18 months. Cuong, 67, was elected by ...

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio has a proud military history, perhaps best encapsulated in the city’s “Military City USA” nickname. For all of that history, there are few places in town to learn about local ...

At 24 years old, Keith Jones was surprised he was drafted into the Vietnam War because he thought he was too old. That time ...

Bullets whizzed by Cpl. Daniel “Duke” Heller as he rescued wounded Marines who’d been trapped in a North Vietnamese Army ambush in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam, on Feb. 13, 1969. Despite being wounded ...

A Vietnamese military-owned company has quietly become one of the most ambitious state-backed technology firms in the world. Viettel, launched by Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defense in 1989 to ...

Last fall, Vietnam opened a sprawling new military museum here, and among thousands of artifacts in the four-story building and a courtyard filled with tanks and aircrafts, one exhibit quickly became ...