SP4 Leslie H. Sabo Jr. distinguished himself May 10, 1970, in Se San, Cambodia, while serving as a rifleman in Company B, 3d Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division.
Members of B. Co. were ambushed by a large enemy force. While conducting a reconnaissance patrol, 22-year-old Sabo, charged an enemy position, killing several enemy soldiers. Immediately thereafter, he assaulted an enemy flanking force, successfully drawing their fire away from friendly soldiers and ultimately forcing the enemy to retreat.
When a grenade landed nearby a wounded comrade, Sabo picked up the grenade threw it away while shielding his buddy with his own body, thus absorbing the brunt of the blast and saving the man’s life.
Seriously wounded by the blast, Sabo, nonetheless, retained the initiative and single- handedly charged an enemy bunker that had inflicted severe damage on the platoon. He received several serious wounds from withering automatic weapons fire in the process. Despite being mortally injured, he crawled towards the enemy emplacement and, when in position, threw a grenade into the bunker. The resulting explosion silenced the enemy fire, but also ended Sabo’s life.
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U.S. Army Soldiers from Bravo Battery, FIRES Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, located at Rose Barracks, Vilseck, Germany, set up a M777A2 Howitzer during a direct fire exercise on May 11, 2012 at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany.
U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Gertrud Zach / released (DVIDS)
Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division‘s 1st Brigade Combat Team pay respects to 1st Lt. Jonathan Walsh, and soldier, Pfc. Michael Metcalf, during a memorial on Forward Operating Base Arian, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Walsh and Metcalf, who were killed by a roadside bomb April 22, served with 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod)
A 105mm Howitzer shell is ejected from the artillery piece after being fired during the playing of the National Anthem at the Thunder Over Louisville air show April 21, 2012 in Louisville, Ky. Members of the Kentucky National Guard 138th Fires Brigade based in Lexington, Ky. performed the volley using blank shells which mimick actual rounds but have no explosive warhead.
(Photo by Spc. David Bolton, Public Affairs Specialist, 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Kentucky Army National Guard)
They called themselves the Battling Belles of Bataan, but to the GIs fighting a desperate and doomed battle for the Philippines in 1941 and 1942, and later to their fellow civilian internees, they were, simply, angels.
The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor, as they’re best known, were a group of 88 Army nurses and 12 Navy nurses stationed in the Philippines in early December 1941. “They were trailblazers for women in the military, for the Army Nurse Corps,” said nurse and ANC historian Lt. Col. Nancy Cantrell. “They set the example for the rest of the services. Their story told the world … that women are tough, they can serve in combat and they can survive.”
The nurses hadn’t received any military or survival training and only held relative rank. Most were the equivalent of second lieutenants, albeit with far lower pay, and were universally addressed as “Miss.”
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(Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Center of Military History)
Pfc. Justin Vnenchak, an infantryman with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, maintains security in his sector while fellow paratroopers and Afghan policemen search a compound April 8, 2012, in southern Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Vnenchak is armed with an M-4 carbine. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod.
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Second Lt. Sydney Smith, Staff Sgt. Anthony Clay and Chaplain Capt. Demetrius Walton, members of the 316th ESC, assist another soldier with getting to the next level of the skyscraper obstacle of a confidence course at Fort Dix, N.J., March 26. The confidence course is meant to build camaraderie between and confidence within soldiers. The course is also very physically challenging making safety extremely important.
(U.S. Army Photo by Army Sgt. Peter J. Berardi, 316th Expeditionary Sustainment Command)
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Paul Mazon and Staff Sgt. Brock Mollica fire the M240B machine gun March 23, 2012 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Kandahar PRT is a joint team of U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy service members and civilians deployed to the Kandahar providence of Afghanistan to assist in the effort to rebuild and stabilize the local government and infrastructure.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tim Chacon)
