Their Sacrifice Won the Battle of Midway. A Marine Now Fights for Their Medals of Honor A retired Marine argues that primary source evidence proves three torpedo bomber squadron commanders deserve the nation's...
'Like Dante's Inferno': One Marine’s Experiences in Vietnam and the Battle of Hue Cpl. Charles McMahon was on a convoy entering Hue when the NVA seized the city. He spent the next month fighting through it...
Senator References Bloodiest Battle in USMC History While Urging Attack on Kharg Island Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., drew sharp criticism from fellow GOP lawmakers after invoking the Battle of Iwo Jima while...
The USS Mississippi Earned Eight Battle Stars and Made Naval History Twice USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship...
Operation Varsity: The Last Great Airborne Operation of WWII On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the...
Three Wars. Three Heroes. One Medal of Honor. Three soldiers in World War II, Vietnam and Afghanistan received the nation's highest honor.
The Youngest Korean War Medal of Honor Recipient Was Only 17 and Is Still MIA 17-year-old Charles Gilliland never returned from Korea. His remains have never been recovered. More than seven decades later...
Operation Bribie: One of the Deadliest Battles for Australian Troops in the Vietnam War When Operation Bribie ended, eight Australians were dead and 27 were wounded. The men who survived were divided over whether...
Kuribayashi, Nishi and the Japanese Troops Who Chose Death Over Surrender at Iwo Jima Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most...
The Best Revenge Stories Ever Told, From Homer to ‘The Last of Us’ From The Odyssey to The Last of Us Part II, this sweeping look at the greatest revenge stories explores how vengeance evolved...
The Recruiting Surge Was Engineered. Can It Last in a War with Iran? The military’s recruiting surge didn’t happen by accident. New programs drove gains, but as the war with Iran grows...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
Army Speeds AI Warfighting Push as US Troops are in Active Combat An Army test used AI tools to hit 15 targets in one hour, signaling a rapid shift in how battlefield decisions are made and...
VA Study: Ozempic, Other GLP-1 Drugs May Fight Addiction Across Every Major Substance For the more than 48 million Americans with substance use disorders, including a disproportionate share of veterans, GLP-1...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
