Marine Scout Snipers Look to Immortalize Their Legacy and History Through a New Memorial In the summer of 2021, two years before the Corps axed the current iteration of the job, members of the Marine scout sniper...
Vigil at 'Iron Mike': Paratroopers Pay Tribute to Fallen Comrades at Iconic Normandy Memorial John Brown was 20 years old when he joined the Army Air Forces in 1947. World War II was over, but he still wanted to serve...
The Wild and Controversial Life of the American Sculptor Behind Mount Rushmore In late 1924, a rare opportunity presented itself to Gutzon Borglum.
'The Angel of Gettysburg' Buried Union Soldiers While 6 Months' Pregnant The stench of decomposing bodies was overpowering, the terrible smell made all the more repugnant by the stifling July heat...
Buffalo Soldiers Receive New VA Headstones Following Army Decision to Overturn Convictions More than 100 years after they were convicted of mutiny and murder and hanged for the 1917 Houston Riot, 17 Black soldiers...
VA Plan to Issue Urns, Memorial Plaques Sparks Concerns Veterans Will Be Barred from Burial with Spouses The National Funeral Directors Association and the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as others, recently...
Survey at Florida Air Force Base Discovers 121 Potential Graves Related to Segregation-Era Black Cemetery MacDill Air Force Base confirmed in a statement late last week that it had located the unmarked Port Tampa Cemetery, which...
Georgia Memorial Honors Family Members of Fallen Troops The statue faces an obelisk dedicated to the White County service members -- about 30 of them -- who have died in service to...
Judge Halts Dismantling of Confederate Memorial at Arlington Just as Removal Work Begins Judge Rossie Alston issued the temporary restraining order blocking "any acts to deconstruct, tear down, remove, or alter the...
As America Celebrates Its Veterans, the Population Is Younger, More Diverse and Shrinking A new report on veteran demographics finds that, in the next 25 years, women, Hispanic and Black veterans and those under 50...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Hegseth Wants 'Male Standard' for Combat Roles. Many Female Veterans Say That's Already the Case Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an address to the military’s top leaders waded back into a topic that nearly derailed his...
The Forgotten Military Vehicles of ‘M*A*S*H’ Between all the martini-fueled hijinx and medical drama, “M*A*S*H” featured some pretty special military vehicles.
Hegseth's Decision on Wounded Knee Medals Sparks Outrage in Native American Communities Native American communities that had long wanted the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the 1890 Wounded...
Airman Confronts and Shoots Armed Neighbor on Deadly Rampage, Iowa Officials Say Harrison Friar, a senior airman, was with his wife and children at their home in Glenwood on the evening of Aug. 6 when they...
