Veterans of Bravo Company receive Bronze Medals 56 years after combat

For over two years, the men of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, engaged in near constant battle in the jungles of Vietnam’s Central Highlands. Since its deployment to Vietnam in early 1967, Bravo Company engaged in 94 separate firefights, enduring heavy combat in Pleiku and Kon Tum provinces, and participated in multiple campaigns including Operation Sam Houston, Operation Francis Marion and the 1968 Tet Offensive, according to an Army release .

Now, more than half a century later, 14 soldiers of Bravo Company were formally awarded Bronze Star Medals by U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John W. Weidner, chief of staff for U.S. Strategic Command, and Col. Robert Newbauer, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, during a Sept. 18 ceremony in Omaha, Nebr