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"Thanks to all of you for giving me the honor of speaking to you. I have got to tell you that looking out across this assemblage I must confess: I haven't seen this many bad boys collected in one location since the last time I visited Leavenworth Prison. When I first learned that I would be doing this gig I asked an aviator buddy of mine what else I needed to know......and he said, well, most of you would be bringing your wives along.......that half of you were so deaf that you couldn't hear a word of what I was...

NEIL CAVUTO: CUT BLUMENTHAL A BREAK--NOT A CHANCE On Tuesday, Neil, you completely caught me off guard with your closing segment "Common Sense." It was anything but common sense; it was disappointing and somewhat shocking, because I couldn't believe what you just said. I speak of the Blumenthal segment where you insisted on cutting him a break for saying he served in Viet Nam when he didn't. Your argument for this was a stretch, weak at best. Then you closed with this parting shot at those of us who were upset with Blumenthal:"Get him on issues that matter, for God's...

I read Joe Galloway’s columns and often disagree with him. But Joe usually makes points that deserve consideration. Joe is not weak or weak-minded; I’ve told him to his face that he’s a mean old man. But I respect Joe. He has fought in pitched combat side-by-side with our troops. Joe thinks we’re losing the Iraq War and I believe we’re winning. Even though we disagree about Iraq, Joe and I both believe that torture is wrong. Last week, I was invited by Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, one of the world’s leading experts on al Qaeda, to speak to a group...

Rick Rescorla helped save thousands before losing his life at World Trade Center In Susan Rescorla's eyes, the very traits that made her late husband a hero on 9/11 were forged on the battlefields of Vietnam almost 40 years ago. "He was a soldier... and a warrior," she whispered, shortly after an Al Reid portrait of Rick Rescorla, an Officer Candidate School Hall of Famer who led more than 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees to safety after terrorists crashed a plane into the World Trade Center, was unveiled Thursday at the National Infantry Museum. "He made one last sweep, as he'd...

Published: March 16, 2006 11:45 AM ET WASHINGTON, D.C. After 41 years on the military beat, covering stories from Fort Riley, Kan. to Vietnam and Iraq, Joe Galloway says he is taking a permanent leave. Come June 1, the 64-year-old scribe will give up his desk at Knight Ridder’s D.C. bureau and settle permanently in the bayfront cottage he owns just north of Corpus Christi, Tex. “I consider myself the luckiest guy in the world to have survived against the odds, to have had the experiences, the stories, the people that this profession has given me,” Galloway said this week...

WASHINGTON - The secretary of defense late last year pronounced, famously, that "you have to go to war with the Army you have -- not the Army you want." The Army we sent to war in Iraq is being changed both by the war and by a Pentagon leadership hell-bent on fixing something that may not have been all that broken before they went to work on it. The buzz words "transformation" and "the Objective Army" are driving radical and rapid change -- perhaps too rapid -- without a great deal of serious thought about anything but the war in...

WASHINGTON - The third rotation of American soldiers and Marines into Iraq is under way. The Pentagon is doing the old robbing-Peter-to-pay-Paul thing to boost total troop strength temporarily to 150,000 for the coming Iraq elections. What that means is some outfits find themselves on their way back over after only nine months at home since their last combat tour. In other outfits where they were expected home for Christmas, the troops instead got a two-month extension on top of their "standard" 12-month combat tour. This time around, about 50 percent of the troops going in will be Army Reserve...

From Henry Mark Holzer's email newsletter: Kerry smeared a hero: my dad. > By CAROL CROWLEY >Published on: 09/20/04 > Many of you believe dirty politics is the motivation of Vietnam >veterans speaking out in opposition to John Kerry. Let me tell you the real motivation. > >In the movie "We Were Soldiers," the story about the battle of the la >Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965, a young sergeant, Jack Gell, cried as >he died, "Tell my wife I love her . . ." and my family relived the >death of my dad. He told my mother in letters...

This is a long read, but worth it. Prepared for delivery 22 Oct 1996 at the Commandant's Lecture Series, The Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Ala. Joe Galloway Senior Writer U.S. News & World Report I can think of no place more appropriate than the Air War College to share the following bit of personal data which was left out of the very kind introductory remarks by the General: I want you to know that I have personally been bombed, rocketed, strafed and napalmed by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marines, U.S. Army Aviation and the...

If you have fed from a steady diet of Hollywood movies about Vietnam you probably believe that everyone who wore a uniform in America's long, sad involvement in war in Vietnam is some sort of a clone of Lt. William Calley---that all three million of them were drug-crazed killers and rapists who rampaged across the pastoral landscape. Those movies got it wrong, until now. There is one more Hollywood film now playing called "We Were Soldiers" and it gets it right. Ask any Vietnam veteran who has gone to see the movie. In fact, ask any American who has gone...