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...
'Combat Con Artists' of World War II Who Hoodwinked Nazis Get Long Overdue Top Honor from Congress From D-Day to the crossing of the Rhine, the Army's top-secret 23rd Headquarters Special Troops unit used inflatable tanks...
How the Creator of Pop-Tarts Gave the US a Delicious Treat and a Sweet Foreign Policy Tool Pop-Tart creator William "Bill" Post was also an Army Air Forces veteran who served in occupied Japan after World War II. And...
The US Military Almost Deployed Nuclear Missile Trains on American Railroads During the Cold War The Cuban Missile Crisis was two decades in the rearview, but in the early 1980s, Cold War tensions between the United States...
Skylab's 1979 Crash Provides a Glimpse at the International Space Station's Future As the U.S. and its partners involved in the International Space Station work through another possible down-to-the-wire...
Chuck Mawhinney, the Deadliest Sniper in Marine Corps History, Dies at 75 Chuck Mawhinney's record was an incredible achievement given the fact that he nearly didn't join the Marine Corps in the...
Why the Los Baños Raid of World War II Is Considered a 'Textbook Airborne Operation’ For this four-phase plan to work, all four steps would have to begin simultaneously -- no small feat for an operation that...
Fuel Tank Plummets from F-16 Jet and Lands in Neighborhood Near Eglin Air Force Base A fuel tank fell off an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet from Eglin Air Force Base, landing in a residential neighborhood...
The Army's Fitness Standards May Shift in 2025. But How Much Tougher Will They Be? The Army is poised to recalibrate its fitness standards, redefining the physical expectations for combat-arms roles in 2025...
Army Doctor Files Guilty Plea in 41 Cases of Sexual Contact, Indecent Behavior with Patients The physician, an anesthesiologist, was accused of fondling patients at a Washington state military hospital between 2019 and...
Lawsuit Alleges Racial and Gender Discrimination Led to an Air Force Contractor's Death The family of a Air Force contractor who was killed when she walked into a rotating drone propeller has filed a lawsuit...
Troubled Caisson Unit Makes Appearance at Carter Funeral as Horse-Drawn Services Remain Suspended The unit came under public scrutiny in 2022 when CNN reported that two horses had died within days of each other...