Sfc Paul Chambers

08/06/2025

Meeting the faculty at Hillcrest High School

08/05/2025

For all of the Juniors, Seniors and recent Graduates of , , , , here’s something for you to think about……

08/04/2025

07/28/2025

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07/22/2025

07/18/2025

On July 18, 1863, Union forces led by the 54th Massachusetts, a United States Colored Troops regiment, attacked Battery Wagner (Morris Island) in South Carolina.

The unit’s colonel, Robert Gould Shaw, was killed in an assault that breached the defenses. Federal troops entered the fort, but were driven out after brutal hand-to-hand combat and heavy casualties. Union forces decided to then lay siege to the fort, which eventually was abandoned. The bravery of the 54th quieted many skeptics of the use of Black troops and was the subject of the 1989 film Glory.

Federal casualties during the operations against the defenses numbered 1,515, while Confederates saw 174 men killed, wounded, or captured.

07/13/2025

12 JULY 1862 - ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR

On 12 July 1862, while the nation was engaged in the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the measure that called for a U.S. Army Medal of Honor, to be awarded in the name of Congress, “to such noncommissioned officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action, and other soldier-like qualities during the present insurrection.” Lincoln had approved a similar provision that created a U.S. Navy Medal of Valor, which provided the basis of the Army Medal of Honor created by Congress in July 1862.
As noted, the Medal of Honor was originally intended to be an award to enlisted members, but in 1863, when the Medal of Honor became a permanent military decoration, it also became available to all members of the Armed Forces, including commissioned officers.

Since its creation in 1862, more than 3,400 men and one woman of the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard have received the Medal of Honor for heroic actions.
The official name of the award is the Medal of Honor and is awarded by the president in the name of Congress. It is not “The Congressional Medal of Honor.”
The first U.S. Army recipients of the Medal of Honor were six members of a raiding party who penetrated deep into Confederate territory during the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862.

06/25/2025

My last Change of Command ceremony as a member of the today at