The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains a list of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships associated with military service in Vietnam and possible exposure to Agent Orange based on military records.

South Dakotan Douglas Brent Hegdahl, who’d never seen the ocean before joining the Navy in the midst of the Vietnam War ... as the Hanoi Hilton – where US prisoners including future ...

Then-President Ronald Reagan had a 600-ship goal for the Navy when he assumed office, dedicated to rebuilding the nation's fleet after the Vietnam War. But his administration also terminated a ...

Video courtesy of the US Navy Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Military & Defense Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) underwater recovery team is in Northern Vietnam searching for the ...

The latest of the Flight III Arleigh Burke vessels has been named for a former US Senator and Vietnam veteran. The US Navy (USN) has named its latest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, the ...

Robert Kerrey led Navy SEAL teams in Vietnam and was later elected governor of Nebraska and then to the U.S. senate for a dozen years.

A United States naval ship was christened ... was awarded a Navy Cross - the second highest honor in the US military. He sadly passed away on one of his final scheduled days in Vietnam, in 1967.

Kerrey, who grew up in Lincoln and graduated from Northeast High School, joined the Navy in 1966 and became a SEAL. He deployed to Vietnam in ... and the United States Navy that gave me the ...