Congress Eyes Top Honor for Navy Pilot Who Was Second-Longest Ever US Military POW Lawmakers are working to award the Congressional Gold Medal to retired Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr., who spent eight and a half...
Senior Enlisted Marine Reduced to Sergeant for Wearing Unauthorized Awards, Including Purple Heart Per a plea agreement, then-Sgt. Maj. Charlie Clawson was reduced in rank after a Sept. 13 court-martial found him in...
Navy Submarine Honored with Top Unit Award for 3 Secret Intelligence Missions The USS Washington, a Navy fast-attack submarine, has been awarded a prestigious unit award for its work in securing key...
3 Airmen Awarded Purple Hearts for Injuries During Deadly Tower 22 Attack in Jordan Three airmen who were injured during a January drone attack on a remote base in Jordan, which killed three service members...
'No Hesitation': Vietnam's Lifesaving 'Dustoff' Medevac Crews to Get Congressional Gold Medal To honor those who flew more than 496,000 Army medevac missions from May 1962 through March 1973, the House last week passed...
Coast Guardsman Becomes 5th Member of Service Awarded for Rescues During Maui Wildfire Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class John Thompson on Wednesday became the fifth Coast Guardsman to receive the service's highest honor...
Marine Crew Chief Who Died Trying to Save Trapped Pilots in Osprey Crash Awarded Service's Highest Noncombat Honor Gen. Eric Smith, the commandant of the Marine Corps, awarded the service's highest noncombat award for heroism -- the Navy...
Medal of Honor Recipients Could Get $100,000 Annual Pensions Under Bill Proposed in Congress Under the Monetary Enhancement for Distinguished Active Legends, or MEDAL, Act, the monthly pension for Medal of Honor...
Congress Bestows Highest Honor on Troops Killed in Abbey Gate Bombing, with Politics in Background Surviving family members of the Abbey Gate suicide bombing victims accepted the Congressional Gold Medal as their loved ones'...
Medal of Honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal: What's the Difference? Former President Donald Trump rankled many U.S. service members and veterans at a recent campaign event where he compared the...
Trump Wants a Department of War. A House GOP Amendment Would Give Him One. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., has filed an amendment to the annual defense policy bill that would formally change the name of the...
F-35 Pilot Was on Phone for Nearly an Hour with Engineers Before Ejection and Fiery Crash The 39-page crash report, released this week, detailed the circumstances of the fiery crash, which completely destroyed the F...
All Services Now Issue Form DD214-1 to Departing Reservists The military's reserve components now issue departing reservists a new record that summarizes their periods of active and...
Veteran Stole $244K in Disability, Then Faked Drowning Death in Maine, Feds Say Gregory P. Heimann Jr. will be returned to Maine, where he will face a charge of making false statements to the government.
US Deportation Flights Hit Record Highs as Carriers Try to Hide the Planes, Advocates Say Immigration advocates gather like clockwork outside Seattle's King County International Airport to witness deportation...
