Famous Veterans

Army veteran Robert Duvall, whose 70-plus year career as an actor included an Oscar for "Tender Mercies," comes from a long...

Navy veteran Robert Heinlein's career as a science fiction writer began when he entered a writing contest for a magazine.

Inventor and engineer R. Buckminster Fuller served as a commander of crash boats at the Navy Flying School at Newport News...

Mentored by comic legend Red Skelton, Jamie Farr was drafted into the Army during the 1950s before gaining fame on the TV...

Rabble-rousing film director Oliver Stone joined the Army during Vietnam as a "rite of passage," and it ended up shaping the...

Talk-show host Montel Williams was the first Black enlisted Marine to complete and graduate both the Academy Prep School and...

One of the most memorable actors ever almost gave it up to be an Air Force pilot.

The man behind Forbes magazine was an Army staff sergeant in World War II, where he was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple...

Leonard Nimoy, who died on Feb. 27, 2015, may be widely known for playing Spock, but he also served in the Army Reserve.