Thieves Are Stripping Sunken World War II Shipwrecks of Their Valuable Steel In 2017, a civilian search team discovered the wreck of the USS Indianapolis in a 600-mile swathe of the Pacific Ocean. The...
How a Michigan Beach Town Became Home to a Highly-Decorated WWII Submarine An 82-year-old piece of storied World War II history has called the Muskegon Lake channel home since 1987, thanks to strong...
VA Secretary Intervenes After Top Officer Orders Iconic World War II Kiss Photo Removed for Being 'Non-Consensual' The VA's head health operations officer sent a memo to regional health directors in February saying the photo depicted non...
'Ghost Town'? Historic Fort Leavenworth Homes Recommended for Demolition Soar to 185 Fort Leavenworth, set to celebrate its bicentennial in 2027, is a National Historic Landmark with some 269 of its 1,700...
10th Mountain Soldiers Honor Legendary WWII Predecessors by Skiing 24 Miles in Their Tracks 10 soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division — now based at Fort Drum in western New York — undertook a 15-hour backcountry...
If You Like Working Out with Weights While Deployed Overseas, You Can Thank Arnold Schwarzenegger In 1990, President George H.W. Bush named actor, bodybuilder and seven-time Mr. Olympia Arnold Schwarzenegger as chairman of...
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...
Picture of Special Forces Soldier Wearing Nazi Patch Triggers Army Investigation The Army is investigating a National Guard social media account posting that contained an image of a soldier wearing a patch...
The Standoff at Gate 36: Texas Sends in the Troops to Block Migrants from Seeking Asylum Immigration enforcement has long been the domain of the federal government. But Texas is challenging that at a time when...
Air Force Colonel Heading Maintenance Group at New Mexico Base Is Relieved of Command Col. Danzel Albertsen, commander of the 49th Maintenance Group at Holloman Air Force Base, was removed from his leadership...
Commander of Air Mobility Squadron in the United Kingdom Quietly Fired by Air Force Maj. Ligel Brown was relieved of command Jan. 25, but the leadership change was not publicized in a press release or...
250,000 Veterans Agree to $6 Billion Settlement with 3M over Earplugs Alleged to Cause Hearing Loss The cases revolved around 3M's Combat Arms Earplugs, Version 2, that were issued to troops between 2003 and 2015.