Richard Sisk

Richard Sisk has more than 45 years of journalism experience in reporting and editing in the U.S. and abroad for United Press International, the N.Y. Daily News and now for Military.com. He has covered police beats, the courts, transportation and politics in New York City and Washington, D.C., and had numerous assignments in the Mideast, Europe and Latin America. He has covered six presidential campaigns and since 2016 has been Military.com’s Pentagon reporter. Sisk is a Vietnam veteran who served with the 2nd Battalion, Fourth Marines, in 1967-68.

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U.S. Coast Guard landing barge at Normandy, France during D-Dy invasion.

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Helicopter aboard the USS Blue Ridge pushed into the sea off the coast of Vietnam

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Colonial militia reenactors prior to the Boston Marathon

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Modular housing for homeless veterans in Los Angeles

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Hiring sign is displayed at a grocery store in Glenview, Ill.

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A help-wanted sign is displayed in a storefront in Bedford, N.Y.

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80th anniversary of the Liberation of Manila at Manila American Cemetery

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Active-duty US military personnel sieving woodland soil for human remains

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Vietnam veteran takes a rubbing of those he fought with in Vietnam.

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