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...
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...
11 Examples of Black Heroism in the Military Dating all the way back to the American Revolution, Blacks have played key roles in the history (and success) of the U.S...
How a Navy Destroyer Almost Killed FDR with a Torpedo A year and a half before President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, his life was...
The Navy’s Short-Lived Plan to Dominate the Skies with Flying Aircraft Carriers Developed by the Navy's lighter-than-air program, the Akron and its sister ship, the USS Macon, were filled with helium and...
The Navy's Naming of its Newest Destroyer Is the Latest Attempt to Honor a Forgotten Black WWII Hero In a daring feat of strength and endurance following an enemy attack that sank the USS Gregory on Sept. 5, 1942, Charles...
A New Book Details the 7 Black Medal of Honor Recipients of World War II In 1993, the Army initiated a review of its records to find out why no Black men who served in World War II were awarded the...
Watch Henry Cavill Kill Nazis in Guy Ritchie's New 'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' Trailer The movie is based on the true story of Britain's real-world Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, the...
Class-Action Suit over Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Goes Before Supreme Court The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Soto v. United States, a case that challenges a six-year limit on back pay for...
Veterans Reunite with 'Precious Cargo' 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon One woman's quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have...
48 Hours with Marines and Soldiers on the US Southern Border Amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, military assets and personnel are increasingly being relied upon for a...
'Everything Is on the Table': Army Eyeing Expansion of Privatized Barracks As part of a pilot program, construction is expected to begin this summer on a new privately managed facility at Fort Irwin...
Army Suspends Fort McCoy's First Female Commander Amid Trump Portrait Display Controversy The incident, which sparked a wave of right-wing criticism, centered on the base's chain of command wall display -- a common...
![](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-02/1time%20bill%20post%20poptarts%201200.jpg?itok=OUYEU-le "William "Bill" Post, Pop-Tarts inventor, seen here visiting a Kellanova plant in Michigan. (Kellanova)")
![](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2018-01/african_american_military_heroes_1200x800.jpg?itok=oDEnoY4v "The 369th Infantry Regiment served on the front lines for 191 days during World War I, longer than any other American unit. In that time, the soldiers of the regiment, known as the "Harlem Hellfighters," never gave up any ground they captured. (Photo Credit: National Archives)")
![Marines at the border wall](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/staff-border-wall-marines-wire-1800.jpg?itok=a3dIOHTu "Marines were deployed here to reinforce barriers during President Donald Trump's first term, but they were not armed with the long guns their Guardian Angels carry now, NPR reported. An old policy from the very unit these Marines come from said Guardian Angels must watch over their units' security with an "ambush mentality." (Drew F. Lawrence/Military.com)")
