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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Tribune News Service) The Airborne and Special Operations Museum in downtown
Fayetteville is fully operational, with a display that will be around through the end of April. The museum closed for six months in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and reopened at limited capacity in September. Following Gov.
Fayetteville museum is now allowed to operate at full capacity, officials said. The order doesn t mean the museum has stopped precautions to reduce the spread of the virus, museum director Jim Bartlinksi said. Officials are still following state and
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, along with Army guidance, Bartlinski said.
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With more than 3,500 Medal of Honor recipients, 39 of those have walked and trained on the grounds of Fort Bragg or Camp Mackall.
But all share the same common honor.
The Medal of Honor is the nation s highest award for valor given to servicemembers.
These are the stories of Fort Bragg s recipients.
Sgt. 1st Class Eugene Ashley Jr. was a soldier with the C Co., 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces Command, when he died Feb. 7, 1968, in Vietnam.
His mission was to rescue entrapped U.S. Special Forces advisers at Camp Lang Vei.
When communications were lost, Ashley directed airstrikes and artillery support and led five assaults against the enemy exposing himself to enemy grenades, and machine gun and automatic-weapons fire.