Coast Guard Aircrews Grade Hollywood’s Biggest Helicopter Missions Hollywood loves helicopter rescues that look heroic. Real Coast Guard aviation runs on checklists, limits, and hard calls. We...
Navy Investigation Finds Osprey Safety Issues Were Allowed to Grow for Years A Navy report acknowledges the military failed to address a growing series of issues with the V-22 Osprey aircraft since it...
Senators Seek to Change Bill That Allows Military to Operate Just Like Before the DC Plane Crash Senators from both parties are pushing to change a defense bill after crash investigators and victims' families warned it...
Army Turns the Apache Into a Drone-Killing Gunship The Army is giving the AH-64E Apache a new mission, transforming the iconic gunship into a fast-moving drone killer designed...
Vietnam DUSTOFF Pilot Who Saved 3,000 Earned Gold Medal Honor for MEDEVAC Crews By then, he had flown over 3,000 casualties to safety during 11 months evacuating wounded soldiers from Vietnam's most...
Crews Are Safe Following Two Navy Crashes Two Navy aircraft from the USS Nimitz crashed minutes apart in the South China Sea.
Operation Ivory Soap: The WWII Experiment That Created Modern Helicopter Combat Missions Between June 15 and July 29, 1945, six Army Air Forces pilots flying experimental Sikorsky helicopters evacuated between 75...
After 56 Years, a Vietnam War Soldier Finally Comes Home In the spring of 1968, Donald P. Gervais’s helicopter crashed into a ravine in the dangerous A Shau Valley in the Republic of...
32 Years Ago, UN Troops Came to the Rescue in Mogadishu During Black Hawk Down On Oct. 3, 1993—32 years ago—what began as a short raid by Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu became an all-night fight for...
Why Is the Army Chopping Away at Its Chopper Fleet? The cuts are part of a larger reorganization as the Army prepares for the changing landscape of warfare with one of the...
Navy Commodore Relieved of Duties, First In Role To Lose Job in 2026 The relieved commodore lost the "trust and confidence" of superiors, will retain a staff position.
This Marine Married Chesty Puller’s Daughter and Was Recommended for the Medal of Honor at Khe Sanh In 1967, Vietnam, Capt. Bill Dabney chose the Marine unit closest to the enemy—an instinct that soon put him and his men at...
Pentagon Overhauls Military Moving System After Years of Family Complaints The Pentagon is overhauling its broken military moving system to centralize control, modernize technology and restore trust...
The Last Living Witness to Lincoln’s Assassination Told His Story on a 1950s Game Show Samuel J. Seymour was just five years old when he sat in the balcony at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, and heard the...
2026 Military Pay Charts Military service members will receive a 3.8% pay raise in 2026. Some senior officers may receive smaller percentages.
