A Sailor Survived Getting Sucked into a Jet Engine During Operation Desert Storm While preparing an A-6E Intruder for takeoff at night, 21-year-old flight deck crewman John Bridges found himself pulled into...
One Sailor's Connection to the USS Porter, Shortly Before It Was Sunk 2nd Class Gunner's Mate Millard Simmons was on a nearby ship when the USS William D. Porter was sunk by the Japanese during...
This WAC Officer Fought for the Rights of Black Women in the Military Lt. Col. Harriet West Waddy was one of only two Black women to attain the rank of major in the Women's Army Corps during...
'If You Need a Dirty Job Done': Straight Talk from a Marine Vet About a CIA Plot to Assassinate Castro Carl Elmer Jenkins recalled the plot to kill Castro in fine detail, laying to rest any lingering historical controversy about...
When the Army Stopped Serving Beer, American Beer Barons Bought a Round for Freedom When the Korean War started, some of the old "dry" politicians and activists were still around, fighting against the evils of...
How the Manhattan Project Gained Momentum in Building the Atomic Bomb The atomic age formally began at exactly 5:30 a.m. (Mountain time) on July 16, 1945. At that moment, the Manhattan Project...
The Military Is the Reason Behind the ‘Amish Beard’ The Amish are likely the only bearded men you’ll see whose mustache areas are clean shaven — and the U.S. military is the...
'Everyone Can Rally Around Bicycles': Vets to Honor All-Black Corps with Ride The history of bicycles in the service coincides with a shift in how Black soldiers would serve their country.
What a World War I Soldier Wrote to His Mother Officer candidate Sylvester Benjamin Butler writes to his mother about his experiences during World War I.
'If the US Don't Fight over This ...': A Captain Recalls the Sinking of the Maine Capt. William Sherman Vanaman provides a first-person account to his family about the sinking of the USS Maine.
Caregivers Sue VA over Denial of Benefits Survivors of veterans who died from service-connected conditions have filed a class action seeking changes to a VA practice...
Marine Corps Ranks: A Complete Guide to Enlisted and Officer Ranks Explore U.S. Marine Corps ranks from private to general. Learn rank structure, pay grades, insignia and promotion paths in...
Homeowners Say the Army Corps and its Contractors Mishandled LA Fire Debris Cleanup More than 800 complaints were submitted to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hotline dedicated to the agency's debris removal...
Japan Marks End of World War II as Survivors Remember Wartime Emperor's Surrender Speech 80 Years Ago A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo’s Budokan hall at noon, the same time then-Emperor Hirohito’s 4½-minute prerecorded...
Flights Restricted over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit North American Aerospace Defense Command issued a statement saying it would be enforcing Federal Aviation Administration...
![At Alamagordo, N.M., a Manhattan Project team assembles "Jumbo" or "Big Brother" prior to its detonation on July 16, 1945.](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/media/history/cold-war/2017/02/jumbo-nuclear-bomb.jpg?itok=-uzptGc8 "At Alamagordo, N.M., a Manhattan Project team assembles "Jumbo" or "Big Brother" prior to its detonation on July 16, 1945. This detonation marked the first controlled atomic explosion and began the atomic age. (Los Alamos National Laboratory photo)")
