Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2019, an improvised explosive device ripped through a US Army patrol in Afghanistan, leaving combat cameraman Ian Ives with ...
Staff Sgt. Paul Schmich received a Purple Heart on Jan. 15, nearly 14 years after he was wounded in Afghanistan, according to a community announcement. Schmich was injured in an improvised explosive ...
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Staff Sgt. Paul Schmich received a Purple Heart Jan. 15, 2026, nearly 14 years after being wounded in an improvised explosive device attack in Afghanistan — a battlefield ...