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Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, reorganized and redesignated as the Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center on 19 May 2023 in honor of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Alexander T. Augusta, the first African-American Medical Corps officer to serve in the United States Army, during the U.S. Civil War.
During the Vietnam War, the hospital received wounded American soldiers returning to the mainland. [2] The building was decommissioned in 1994 [1] [3] [4] when the base was transferred to the National Park Service and was demolished in 2002. In 2005, Lucasfilm opened the Letterman Digital Arts Center on the site of the old hospital.
However, that has not always been the case for American soldiers of African descent. African American soldiers who served in World War 1 were treated worse before, during, and after the war than any other group of American soldiers. [4] During a homecoming celebration for African-American veterans of World War I in Norfolk, Virginia a race riot ...
Capt. Lewis Reed is believed to have been Rockland's longest-serving Civil War veteran, with four years and four months of service. He died at age 83 in 1925.
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
Sgt. Ben Wilson gave his son the surprise of a lifetime when he came home two weeks early and attended Ben's pep rally. "This has been the worst tour, emotionally wise, that I've been through ...
[6] [7] He was one of many African-American servicemen of the time who were subjected to violence for continuing to wear their uniforms after being discharged from the military. [8] Little was killed by Blakely residents, but the details of his death are uncertain. One source says he was hanged and burned. [9] Another states he was beaten to ...
Meanwhile, the Army has identified two of the soldiers aboard the Black Hawk helicopter as Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Georgia and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves ...