Families Look Back on Legacy, Tragedy of Port Chicago Military Disaster After Sailors Exonerated Scores of Black military personnel stationed at Port Chicago had long suffered through racial injustice, lax training...
5 Awesome Things to Know About US Coast Guard History for Its Birthday For more than 230 years, the first line of American coastal defense has been the United States Coast Guard.
How a Berlin Cold War Outpost Offers a Window on Challenges Today Carved out of the forest on the southwestern edge of Berlin lies an outpost of the Cold War that’s becoming more relevant by...
Navy SEAL Vet Jack Carr's First-Ever Nonfiction Book Traces the Roots of the Global War on Terror To this day, the barracks attack in Beirut remains the single greatest loss of life the Marine Corps has experienced since...
Archeologists Find Musket Balls Fired During One of the First Battles in the Revolutionary War Nearly 250 years ago, hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls...
Navy Exonerates 256 Black Sailors Unjustly Punished in 1944 After a Deadly California Port Explosion The whole episode was unjust, and none of the sailors received the legal due process they were owed, Navy Secretary Carlos...
Why the Only American Killed on Hitler’s Direct Order ‘Couldn’t Turn Her Back on Germany’ When Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined on Feb. 16, 1943, she became the only American killed on a direct order from the...
Omar Bradley's Path to Becoming the Army's Fourth Five-Star General Omar Bradley went from graduating 44th in his class at the U.S. Military Academy to becoming one of the Army's most...
The Invasion of Grenada Was Planned Using a Tourist Map Army planners thought they would be invading Lebanon. They didn't even know where Grenada was.
How a National Football Champion Became 'The Father of Naval Special Warfare' In 1942, Phil Bucklew and nine other naval warfare pioneers trained to perform amphibious assaults before the U.S. had any...
VA Warns Congress that Benefits Payments Are at Risk Due to Projected $15 Billion Budget Shortfall The VA said it is working with the White House and Congress to address the budget shortfalls in a way that doesn't harm...
National Guard Chief Warns of 'Unintended Consequences' of Transferring Air Guard Units to Space Force Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the outgoing chief of the National Guard Bureau, said a proposal to transfer certain Air National Guard...
A Bribery Scheme Abusing a Program for Afghan Allies Ends with a Conviction for a Navy Commander Cmdr. Jeromy Pittmann was convicted by a jury in New Hampshire on four charges that included bribery and concealing a money...
JD Vance's Marine Corps Service Would Set Him Apart from Most Vice Presidents Vance, 39, is the first post-9/11 veteran to find a spot on a major party ticket and, if elected, would likely be the first...
VA's Threat to Withhold Disability Checks over Decades-Old Separation Pay Surprises Vets Some veterans who received bonuses from the Defense Department to leave the service are learning they have to pay back the...