This Week, Fort Pickett Will Replace Its Confederate Name, a First for an Army Base Following Renaming Commission Fort Pickett will be redesignated Fort Barfoot, honoring Col. Van T. Barfoot, a World War II Medal of Honor recipient with...
These Southern National Guard Units to Toss Confederate Battle Streamers Contemporary National Guard units that were a part of the Confederacy and waged war against the United States during the...
A Black Union Spy in the Confederate White House Almost Burned It Down In Her Escape In recognition of her intelligence contributions, Mary Jane Richards was inducted into the U.S. Army Intelligence Hall of...
Navy Renaming USS Chancellorsville to Honor Union Army Hero, Statesman Who Was Born into Slavery Robert Smalls, a former slave who was conscripted into Confederate service, stole a Confederate steamer ship and escaped from...
Naval Academy Honors President Jimmy Carter, Drops Confederate Name from Building While Matthew Fontaine Maury is considered the father of modern oceanography, he resigned his commission in 1861 and joined...
Mystery of Civil War-Era Union Army Gold Deepens with FBI Records There is little evidence in the historical record to suggest that an Army detachment lost a gold shipment in the Pennsylvania...
Salisbury Steak Was Supposed to Be a Cure-All for Union Troops in the Civil War James H. Salisbury was both the doctor you want and the doctor you should definitely not listen to, but in his day, he was as...
Ulysses S. Grant, President and General, Gets a Day in Ohio The president responsible for giving America the federal Christmas holiday is getting a special day of his own.
West Point Moves to Vanquish Confederate Symbols from Campus The moves are part of a Department of Defense directive ordering the academy to address racial injustice and do away with...
156 Years Later, Ulysses S. Grant Could Get One Last Promotion The war hero, once ranked among the worst U.S. presidents but whose reputation is on the upswing, may be promoted to the rank...
Soldiers Issued High-Speed Arctic Gear as Army Gets Serious About Fighting in the Cold Hundreds of soldiers are now receiving layered protection suits capable of withstanding temperatures as low as minus 65...
Higher Cancer Rates Found in Military Pilots, Ground Crews Aviation crews have long asked for the Pentagon to look closely at some of the environmental factors they are exposed to.
Coast Guard Cutter Back in Hawaii After Trek to Japan The deployment was in support of Operation Sapphire, a joint agreement between the U.S. and Japanese coast guard.
Army Fields New Armored Personnel Carrier, Replacing 60-Year-Old Vehicle The Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, or AMPV, is a tracked armored vehicle with similar gearing and suspension as the M2...
How the War in Iraq Changed the Military for Women Some 2,200 active-duty women out of roughly 40,000 are serving in infantry, cavalry, armor and field artillery roles.
