In Texas, 76 men have been awarded the Medal of Honor for their courage above and beyond the call of duty since the inception of the medal. Perhaps the most recognizable of those figures from World ...

“You lead from the front,” is the motto for the Sgt. Audie Murphy Club, and the Fort Knox MEDDAC’s two newest members of the club do just that. The Sergeant Audie Murphy Club is a private organization ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Audie Leon Murphy (June 20, 1924 – May 28, 1971) was a fifth grade dropout from an extremely poor family who became the most decorated American soldier of World ...

During a World War II battle in Holtzwihr, France, a wounded US soldier climbed into a burning tank, took a spot behind a .50-caliber machine gun and fired until the enemy was vanquished. At the age ...

Audie Murphy was an American actor known for his Western films. However, his initial claim to fame came from being the most decorated U.S. combat soldier of World War II. He was born in 1925 in a ...

As a finalist for the prestigious Sergeant Audie Murphy Award, there isn’t much that fazes Sgt. 1st Class Kara Wait. A former combat medic who served in Iraq, Wait is ready to do pushups, run, study ...

Sgt. 1st Class Kara Wait, a medical recruiter stationed in Spokane, was one of 11 soldiers awarded the U.S. Army Recruiting Command’s Audie Murphy medallion in a ceremony at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on ...

Few people have awards named after them, so Audie Murphy, honored by the Spirit of America’s award given in his name, is one of an elite cadre. But then, he always was.