Congress Asks Trump to Award Medal of Honor to Trailblazing Marine Vietnam War Veteran Nearly 50 lawmakers wrote a letter to President Trump last week urging him to award the Medal of Honor to a Marine veteran...
The WWII Fighter Ace and Medal of Honor Recipient Who Helped Give America the Super Bowl When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December...
The First Medal of Honor Recipient of WWII Was Basically a Modern-Day Berserker To look at Lt. Alexander R. "Sandy" Nininger when he began his plebe year at the U.S. Military Academy, one might never have...
This NFL Player Lost Both Legs at Iwo Jima – and Rallied His Platoon to Keep Fighting Jack Lummus' heroism dwarfed anything he did for the Giants in his short time with the franchise, but they never forgot his...
80 Years Later, Audie Murphy's Medal of Honor Action Is Still Like Something Out of a Movie Audie Murphy's one-man fight against the Nazis in Europe might seem like something straight out of a modern action movie, but...
Military Academies Quashed Army-Navy Game Advertisement Featuring Marine Recommended for Medal of Honor The ad, which lauded the life and bravery of retired Marine Maj. James Capers Jr., was sponsored by a group that has backed...
The Navy's New Destroyer Is Named for the First SEAL to Receive the Medal of Honor The USS Robert Kerrey will be an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the third named for a Navy SEAL after the USS Michael P...
Medals of Honor Awarded to 5 Soldiers from Korean War and 2 from Vietnam In his opening remarks at the White House ceremony, Biden said the Medal of Honor recipients epitomized the American ideal...
Congress Approves Renaming US Route 20 to Honor Medal of Honor Recipients The nation's longest road -- U.S. Route 20 -- will be designated the "National Medal of Honor Highway," under legislation...
The Navy’s Newest Warship Is Already Flying a Fresh Battle Flag at Sea The future USS John Basilone is already flying a battle flag in tribute to its decorated Marine namesake.
VA Crisis Line Employees Among Those Fired Amid Federal Workforce Purge Of the 1,000 employees fired last week from the Department of Veterans Affairs, some were employees who had worked for the...
What's in Store for VA Disability Benefits with New Office of Management and Budget Chief? New OMB Director Russell Vought has contributed to two conservative playbooks that advocate for the revamping of veterans'...
Fort Moore Was Named After My Parents. A Letter Mom Wrote Shows Why It Shouldn’t Go Back to Benning My Dad was a commander in the Vietnam War. My Mom changed how the military cares for widows.
A Comprehensive Look at DOGE's Firings and Layoffs So Far Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump's...
Nominee for VA Deputy Role Questioned by Senate over Firings, Elon Musk Access to Veterans' Info Paul Lawrence served as the VA under secretary for benefits during the first Trump presidency.
![](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-01/1tim%20audie%20murphy%20movie%201200.jpg?itok=1Dc6BLwj "Audie Murphy recreates his Medal of Honor action for the 1955 film "To Hell and Back," adapted from his autobiography. (Universal Pictures)")
