Rebecca Holland is a reporter for Stars and Stripes based in Vicenza, Italy, where she reports on the U.S. Army, including ...

The senior enlisted leader for the Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade ... The brigade is a forward-deployed airborne unit based out of Vicenza, Italy, that falls under U.S. Army Europe and Africa.

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first U.S. combat troops arriving in Vietnam. Millions of American servicemen and women would do tours of duty there, including Army specialist Henry Smithers.

File Photo courtesy Imperial War Museum In 1965, about 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang, South Vietnam. It was the first deployment of a large U.S. ground combat unit to the country ...