How This General's Command at Wounded Knee Marred His Military Career On Dec. 29, 1890, troops under then-Col. James W. Forsyth's command were ordered to aim their guns on Wounded Knee village in...
What These Sisters Did to Become the Only Civilian Women Buried at West Point Susan and Anna Warner were Sunday School teachers to generations of West Point cadets.
How a Young Seaman's Remarkable Memory Brought Home News of Fellow POWs Douglas Hegdahl was a young seaman apprentice when he was captured during the Vietnam War and imprisoned at "the Hanoi Hilton...
How a Navy Vet Survived the Sinking of a Troop Transport During World War II Ellsworth Wallace Haynes shares his stories of serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
How a Race Riot Involving an Army Unit Led to the Largest Murder Trial in US History The Houston Race Riot of 1917 involved an all-Black battalion from the 24th Infantry Regiment and resulted in the execution...
The Real-Life Murphy and How 'Murphy's Law' Came to Be The basis of Murphy's Law is that no matter how idiot-proof something is, there will always be an idiot who rises to the...
How Bernard Montgomery Helped Defeat the Germans in Africa During WWII Bernard Law Montgomery's maxim of "training, training and more training," combined with a penchant for organization, helped...
This Female Naval Officer Became a Computer-Age Pioneer Known alternately as "Amazing Grace," "the Mother of Computing" and "Grandma COBOL," Grace Murray Hopper revolutionized the...
This Civil War Battle Helped Launch a President's Career The Civil War battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, involved James Garfield and has been called "the battle that made a...
How the Army Is Getting the Lead Out and Going to 'Green' Ammo The Army is getting the lead out -- of small-caliber ammunition, that is. Tungsten eventually will replace lead in all small...
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...
![The Army's current training ammunition, known as the M-862 Short Range Training System will eventually be replaced with a new, "green" ammunition that will contain no lead and be more environment friendly. (U.S. Army photo)](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/media/news/equipment/2017/08/m862-short-range-training-system-800x533.jpg?itok=NDLUwtrZ "The Army's current training ammunition, known as the M-862 Short Range Training System, will eventually be replaced with a new, "green" ammunition that will contain no lead and be more environment friendly. (U.S. Army photo)")
