The Congressional Gold Medal is America's highest civilian ... that perhaps best defines the roughly 3,400 Dustoff crewmembers who served in Vietnam. "After we were picked up and were taken ...

the DUSTOFF Association proudly announced the historic passage of the Vietnam DUSTOFF Crews Congressional Gold Medal Act in the U.S. House of Representatives, recognizing the heroic Army ...

The Salinas native who spent nearly a decade in a prison camp during the Vietnam War was voted ... Everett Alvarez Jr., the Congressional Gold Medal. Alvarez was born on Dec. 23, 1937, in Salinas ...

Hugh Nelson Jr. received the Congressional Medal of Honor at the White House ... as a member of the 114th Aviation Company near South Vietnam, when they were struck by enemy gunfire.