Before launching FedEx, Smith served two tours in Vietnam, where he was twice wounded and earned the Silver Star for combat ...

To start the company we know today as FedEx, Frederick W. Smith took a step that many entrepreneurs do. He used a combination ...

Dick Taylor, who served in the Marine Corp from 1975-79 praised operational security while cautioning against regime change ...

Dick Taylor, USMC 1975-79, shared his thoughts on the U.S. mission in Iran and word of a cease fire between Iran and Israel.

It was July 1968 and Jim Files — an airborne and scuba-qualified reconnaissance Marine — was assigned with fellow Marines to guard a bridge at Cam Lo, Vietnam. “We would scuba under the ...

He told The Associated Press in a 2023 interview that everything he did running FedEx came from his experience in the Marines ...

The Olmsted Falls annual Vietnam Veterans Remembrance Day is scheduled from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday (June 28) at The Village ...

After graduating from Yale in 1966, Fred Smith served four years in the United States Marine Corps, which included two tours ...

I am a combat veteran from the Vietnam War, an M60 machine gunner in the weapons platoon of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th ...

"You made your fellow Marines, family, friends and community proud of your bravery, gallant actions and service to your ...

According to the company statement, Fred died of natural causes in Tennessee, where he was brought up. Before founding FedEx in 1971, Fred Smith also served in the Vietnam War, where he was a Marine ...

The more relevant, and worrying, parallel may be the period from 1957 to the end of 1968, when military forces actively ...