Marine Veteran John Canley's Navy Cross, earned during the Vietnam War, was upgraded and he received the Medal of Honor on October 17, 2018.
Meggen Pearsall-Ditmore played a significant role in Air Force history as the first female Crew Chief of the A-10 Thunderbolt fighter jet.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Elise Hackstall. Elise served actively from 2004 to 2008 and as part of the reserves until March 2018.
Kevin Assenat was medevacked to Germany, then to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he stayed for three months and received multiple eye surgeries.
Ronald Tatum earned the rank of major and served as an instructor for the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in the Sierra Mountains
Clarizza Paz was stationed with the 2nd Brigade Support Battalion and Headquarters, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division at Tacoma
Fang Wong joined the American legion, eventually becoming the first Asian-American national commander of the American Legion.
Kevin Bushell served as an electronics technician, Petty Officer 2nd Class, aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain.
Former owner of the Los Angeles Chargers, Alex Spanos served his country during World War II as a B-29 tail gunner in the Army Air Forces.
Harold Tomb was assigned to the 319th Service Squadron and was then sent overseas to Bombay, India where he saw his first hammerhead shark.
Nathaniel Raley was assigned to the 12th Air Force and sent to North Africa in 1943 as part of a combat fighter squadron during World War II.
One of the most memorable moments for Jesse Oxendine was the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp near Ludwigslust, Germany on May 2, 1945.