Ryan Pitts didn’t survive COP Keating because he was invincible; he survived because, in the chaos of a fight designed to kill him, he refused to quit.

Staff Sgt. Clinton “Clint” Romesha woke up early on the morning of Oct. 3, 2009. Combat Outpost Keating, an International Security Assistance Force base in Kamdesh near the Pakistani border of ...

WASHINGTON — Saluting Clinton Romesha for embodying the soldier's creed of never leaving behind a fallen comrade, President Barack Obama on Monday bestowed the Medal of Honor on him for courageously ...

(CNN) — A former U.S. Army staff sergeant will be just the fourth living recipient of the nation’s highest award for combat valor for his actions in repelling an insurgent onslaught in Afghanistan in ...

KABUL -- Delays in closing a remote U.S. military outpost in eastern Afghanistan before eight American soldiers were killed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn ...

KABUL -- Most of the soldiers were still asleep when gunfire rang out and insurgents stormed their isolated base from all sides. Eight Americans and three Afghan soldiers died. The Americans weren't ...