13 Vietnam-Era Holiday Stories to Remember, as Told by Veterans Christmas in the military is certainly different than celebrating the holidays as a civilian, and Christmas during war is an...
Highest Award Congress Can Bestow Going to Revered Vietnam POW Everett Alvarez A Vietnam prisoner of war who spent years in captivity in the prison camp they dubbed the Hanoi Hilton and whose story was...
The Little-Known War Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Songs Criscrossing decades, continents and conflict, we’ve collected some of the most intriguing stories behind a variety of...
12 Vietnam-Era Thanksgivings to Remember, as Told by Veterans Military.com readers share their Vietnam-era Thanksgiving stories.
Why a British Field Marshal and 74 Other Foreign Nationals Are Buried in Arlington National Cemetery When John Dill died on Nov. 4, 1944, it shook the upper echelons of the United States military, right up through Army Chief...
Congress Eyes Top Honor for Navy Pilot Who Was Second-Longest Ever US Military POW Lawmakers are working to award the Congressional Gold Medal to retired Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr., who spent eight and a half...
The Best Vietnam War Movies, According to Service Members and Veterans It's no surprise that the Vietnam War and the veterans who served during it have been immortalized in some of the most iconic...
US Navy Battle Flags: A Visual Guide The Navy's tradition of flying battle flags is as old as America itself. Here's an (incomplete) guide to the service's best...
'No Hesitation': Vietnam's Lifesaving 'Dustoff' Medevac Crews to Get Congressional Gold Medal To honor those who flew more than 496,000 Army medevac missions from May 1962 through March 1973, the House last week passed...
'Primitive War' Pits American GIs Against Dinosaurs During the Vietnam War As if booby traps, underground tunnels and Viet Cong ambushes weren't dangerous enough for U.S. troops fighting in Vietnam...
'Open Cruelty': Transgender Troops Describe Indignities as They're Kicked Out of the Military Leaders in the Trump administration have minced few words in articulating how they feel about transgender troops.
New Login System Coming for Defense Department and Some VA Websites The old DS Logon system will be retired in favor of the more secure myAuth system.
‘Blood-Curdling Screams’: Marine Veteran Helps Stop Walmart Mass Stabbing with Shopping Cart Matthew Kolakowski had just left the Walmart checkout lane when a worker screamed that a man had a knife.
Virginia Governor Demands Richmond Pay Wrongfully Convicted Navy Vet $5.8M Under a new state law, the city of Richmond, Virginia, owes Marvin Grimm $5.8 million, matching a sum the state paid for the...
Ford GPW: The Forgotten Military Jeep Think you know Jeeps? Think again. Buckle up for the story of how Ford helped win World War II and create an automotive icon...