At a Civil War Battlefield in Mississippi, There's a New Effort to Include More Black History In recent years, the National Park Service has broadened how it presents history in parks nationwide.
How the 3 Living Black Medal of Honor Recipients Embody the Military’s Top Award On Jan. 10, 1968, Private 1st Class Clarence Sasser was part of a reconnaissance mission in southern Vietnam when his...
D-Day Vets in Britain Honor Comrades as 13 Names Are Added to a Memorial With medals pinned to their chests, two D-Day veterans proudly represented their comrades as 13 new names were added Tuesday...
United Daughters of the Confederacy Would Lose Virginia Tax Breaks if Youngkin Signs Off Legislation that would end tax benefits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy is on its way to Republican Virginia Gov...
Lawmakers Want Medals, Not Certificates, to Honor Veterans Involved in Nuclear Testing The current version of the House defense policy bill has a measure that would award "atomic veterans" with a service medal.
7 Important Things to Know About the First US Navy Seabees The Seabees were created during World War II, because the Navy needed construction workers who could fight back.
6 Events in Military History That Happened on Leap Day Leap Day has a long history -- it's not something we all just arbitrarily decided to do one day.
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...
The Story Behind the Two Flag Raisings at the Battle of Iwo Jima Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal spent his life proving his now-famous photo wasn't staged.
This Czech Knight Resisted Nazi Aggression When the World Abandoned His Country Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also...
Marine Recruiter Who Wrote ‘Memoir’ About Teenage Recruit Sentenced to Prison Nearly a year after then-Gunnery Sgt. Christopher Champagne self-published a memoir about his inappropriate relationship with...
Five Chinese Nationals Charged with Covering Up Midnight Visit to Michigan Military Site U.S. authorities charged five Chinese nationals with lying and trying to cover their tracks, more than a year after they were...
Air Force Has a Problem Recruiting for Special Warfare Jobs, New Report Finds The Rand Corp. released a study detailing the issues the Air Force has faced in getting recruits to join Special Warfare...
1,000 Active-Duty Soldiers Called Up to Assist with Hurricane Helene Response The 1,000 troops, an Infantry Battalion Task Force formed from the XVIII Airborne Corps, are from the 82nd Airborne Division...
Army Testing Robot Dogs Armed with Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Rifles in Middle East The Army was testing at least one armed quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicle at an installation in Saudi Arabia.