Video: Marine Corps Times interviews Dakota Meyer, Medal of Honor recipient
GREENSBURG, Ky. — It has been a long journey. Dakota Meyer will receive the Medal of Honor on Sept. 15, two years after he braved enemy fire multiple times in Afghanistan in attempt to save fellow U.S....
View ArticleDakota Meyer: The first Medal of Honor social networker?
President Obama will award the Medal of Honor tomorrow afternoon to Dakota Meyer, the first living Marine in 38 years to receive the nation’s top valor award. For many, the ceremony is heavily...
View ArticleMore on Dakota Meyer’s beer summit with Obama
UPDATED: A White House spokesman tells Marine Corps Times that the beer shared by Obama and Meyer was home-brewed there. It’s called White House Honey Blonde Ale. That’s pretty sweet. By now, you’ve...
View ArticleThoughts on the ’60 Minutes’ piece with Dakota Meyer
Last night, the messy background behind Sgt. Dakota Meyer’s Medal of Honor was reintroduced to the nation. In a 15-minute piece on “60 Minutes,” CBS reporter David Martin outlined what went wrong in...
View ArticleDakota Meyer jokes with David Letterman
Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. Dakota Meyer appeared on “Late Show with David Letterman” Thursday night, and thing got loose pretty quickly. You’ve got to love “greasing the Bobcat” jokes, in...
View ArticleVideo: The 236th Marine Corps Birthday Message
The Marine Corps Birthday is still a few weeks away, but the service extended one tradition tonight by posting its annual birthday video message. Featuring narration by Commandant Gen. Jim Amos and...
View ArticleMarine hero Dakota Meyer launches new blog
Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer has had a busy year since receiving the nation’s highest valor award in a ceremony at the White House in September. Mostly, his work has focused on public speaking...
View ArticleMarine hero Dakota Meyer’s book set for September release
Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer’s new book is scheduled to be released in September, three years after the devastating battle that led to his heroic actions. “Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account...
View ArticleBehind the Cover: In new book, Dakota Meyer unloads
Last week, I reported for Marine Corps Times that Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer acknowledges in his new book that he attempted to kill himself in 2010, one year after surviving the battle that...
View ArticleMedia blitz for Dakota Meyer’s new book begins today
It has been more than a year since President Obama draped the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest valor award, around the neck of Dakota Meyer. Today, the Marine’s own account of the Sept. 8, 2009,...
View ArticleDakota Meyer asks: Why can’t the U.S. bring my intrepreter home?
With a deadly firefight raging, five men hopped into a Humvee and rode toward a small mountainside village in Afghanistan looking for a four-man team of U.S. forces that had gone missing in combat. The...
View ArticleGritty war-zone video emerges of Capt. Will Swenson, next Medal of Honor...
The White House announced on Monday that former Army Capt. Will Swenson will receive the Medal of Honor on Oct. 15, four years after he braved enemy fire repeatedly while leading U.S. forces through a...
View ArticleDakota Meyer’s interpreter, once scared in Afghanistan, now safe at U.S....
In recent weeks, Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer has forcefully advocated for the U.S. to allow his former Afghan interpreter into the U.S., saying the man feared for his life after getting death...
View ArticleCapt. Will Swenson, next Medal of Honor recipient, sends touching invitation...
Former Army Capt. Will Swenson will receive the Medal of Honor on Oct. 15, more than four years after he and other U.S. forces tried desperately to find and save three Marines and a Navy corpsman who...
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