Pentagon Agency Pauses Celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month and More The Defense Department's intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust...
Tuskegee Airmen, WASP History Will Stay in Air Force Boot Camp Curriculum Following Outcry The Air Force is resuming its boot camp lessons about trailblazing Black and female World War II pilots after the material...
Hear Firsthand Accounts from 'The Six Triple Eight' in a Free Online Documentary Screening The trailblazing soldiers depicted in the Netflix film are featured in a free virtual screening of an informative documentary...
The Tuskegee Airmen: A Tribute to Military Pioneers A brief history of this groundbreaking World War II air crew.
'We'll Be Back For You': Jesse Brown and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir At a time when the United States was still divided by segregation, Navy pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner were a model of...
9 Black Veterans Who Blazed a Path in Hollywood These nine military veterans have made a huge impact in movies and television.
Famous Vet Colin Powell Became First Black Secretary of State in US Gen. Colin Powell, a son of Jamaican immigrants, rose to the top of the U.S. military.
Getting to Know the First Black Navy SEALs Fred "Tiz" Morrison and William Goines were Black pioneers in naval special warfare and generally acknowledged to be the...
What You Should Know About the Tuskegee Airmen The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of Black pilots who helped the Allies win World War II -- and helped break the military...
The Tuskegee Airmen Won the First Air Force 'Top Gun' Aerial Gunnery Competition Lt. Col. James Harvey, one of the Tuskegee Airmen, called winning the Air Force's "Top Gun" competition in 1949 "the...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
![Black Veterans Hollywood](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-02/blackveteranshollywood.jpg?itok=2qBTESCd "Sidney Poitier in "It Happened One Night," Richard Pryor in "Live on the Sunset Strip," and Morgan Freeman in "The Shawshank Redemption."")
