Charles Jackson French, a WWII Navy hero, will have a destroyer named after him. He saved 15 men from shark-infested waters in 1942.

During the 1940s, Navy reservists displayed the essential components of their wartime basic training—swimming for water readiness, daily physical conditioning, structured meal procedures, and ...

His motto is to just keep swimming. Jason Redman was at death’s door following an al Qaeda ambush in Iraq in 2007, during which he was shot eight times, sustaining severe injuries to his face, arm and ...