Note: Single-source report; awaiting corroboration.
President Donald J. Trump will present the Medal of Honor to Major James Capers Jr., U.S. Marine Corps (Retired); Colonel John W. Ripley, U.S. Marine Corps (Posthumous); and Major Nicholas Dockery, U.S. Army (Retired), as announced on June 18, 2026.
Major Capers, then a Second Lieutenant, is recognized for his leadership with the 3d Force Reconnaissance Company during a four-day reconnaissance patrol in Vietnam from March 31 to April 3, 1967. Despite multiple enemy contacts and severe wounds, he directed fire, coordinated movement, and ensured his team's extraction before evacuating himself.
Colonel Ripley, posthumously honored, served as Senior Marine Advisor to the Third Vietnamese Marine Corps Infantry Battalion. On April 2, 1972, he single-handedly placed explosives beneath the Dong Ha bridge under heavy enemy fire, detonating them to stop a major mechanized enemy assault.
Major Dockery, as a Second Lieutenant and Platoon Leader in Afghanistan’s Kapisa Province, is recognized for gallantry during a four-hour engagement against a large Taliban ambush on October 2, 2012.