The USS Mississippi Earned Eight Battle Stars and Made Naval History Twice USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship...
American Battle Monuments Commission Opens Online Archive of America’s First Combat Aviators The American Battle Monuments Commission launched an online catalog of photographs and aviation relics tied to America's...
US Navy Sends Submarines Under Arctic Ice for 100th Time in Milestone Exercise The U.S. Navy has reached a Cold War-era milestone in the Arctic, deploying two Virginia-class submarines beneath the polar...
The World’s Shared Past Under Threat: Cultural Heritage at Risk in Iran Iran’s ancient cultural sites face growing threats from war, environmental damage, and limited preservation resources...
Future of Chicago's Soldier Field Uncertain as Bears Eye Move to Indiana Chicago’s 102-year-old Soldier Field faces an uncertain future as the Bears explore a move to Indiana, raising questions...
On The Clock: Daylight Saving Time Has Roots in World War I DST continues to spark debate as Americans remain divided over whether to keep changing their clocks each year.
What Oscar-Winning War Movies Get Wrong About the Military, According to Veterans Veterans and historians reveal what Oscar-winning war films like The Hurt Locker, Dunkirk and Braveheart get wrong about real...
Operation Varsity: The Last Great Airborne Operation of WWII On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the...
The 5 Longest-Distance Sniper Kills in Military History The top five longest-distance confirmed sniper kills all came from shots fired at more than a mile away, with the top two...
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...
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...
US Navy Sends Submarines Under Arctic Ice for 100th Time in Milestone Exercise The U.S. Navy has reached a Cold War-era milestone in the Arctic, deploying two Virginia-class submarines beneath the polar...
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...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
