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...
Broken Altimeter, Ignored Warnings: Hearings Reveal What Went Wrong in DC Crash that Killed 67 Over three days of sometimes contentious hearings this week, the National Transportation Safety Board interrogated Federal...
Reckoning with Mortality: The Hidden Toll of Being a Military Family in the Aviation Community "The aviation community is very small. The rotary aviation world is even smaller. Since I met my husband in 2010, we have not...
Families of Those Killed in Black Hawk Collision with Jet Want More 'Openness, Compassion' from Army A letter addressed to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll calls on the service to communicate directly with the families in the wake...
Army Identifies 101st Airborne Pilot Killed in Apache Helicopter Crash Over the course of his career, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dustin K. Wright earned numerous decorations, including the Air Medal...
One Soldier Dead, Another Injured in Fort Campbell Helicopter Training Crash A soldier was killed and another injured during an aviation training mission Wednesday evening at Fort Campbell, Kentucky...
Pentagon Lost Contact with Army Helicopter on Flight That Caused Jets to Nix Landings at DC Airport The aborted landings on May 1 added to general unease about continued close calls between government helicopters and...
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...
![Flight path of Army Black Hawk "PAT23" on a May 1, 2025](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-05/ApNewsroom_Army_Helicopter_Aborted_Landing_22282.jpg?itok=GOBdjEpf "This image provided by the U.S. Army shows a screenshot of data from the Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast, or ADS-B, of the flight path of Army Black Hawk "PAT23" on a May 1, 2025, flight that led to air traffic controllers aborting the landings of two commercial jets. (U.S. Army via AP)")
