Army Cancels Planned Public Visits to Trinity Bomb Site in April. You Can Blame 'Oppenheimer.' The Army has canceled the April 6 open house for the public to visit the New Mexico site of the Trinity atomic bomb blast for...
'Band of Brothers' Actors Are Training to Parachute into Normandy for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day With the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy approaching in June, some of the actors decided they would...
Memorial Marks 210th Anniversary of Crucial Battle Between Native Americans and United States Members of the Muscogee Creek Nation returned to Alabama this weekend for a memorial service on the 210th anniversary of the...
'The Hurt Locker' and America's Fading Memory of the Iraq War On the 21st anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, it's time to reassess how "The Hurt Locker" and other movies and TV shows...
How Female Service Members Paved the Way for the Modern Women’s Rights Movement The contributions that servicewomen have made to the broader fight for women’s equality in the workplace has largely been...
The 11 Finalists for the First-Ever American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History The American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History is like March Madness for the best books on military history.
JFK's Funeral Was the Only State Burial in US History to Feature a Foreign Military Unit The funeral procession was also greeted by a unit of the Irish Defence Forces, which was conducting a silent drill, standing...
The First Parachute Jump from a Fixed-Wing Aircraft Was a Terrifying Risk for Everyone Involved U.S. troops have been jumping out of perfectly good airplanes for more than 80 years, but a significant amount of training...
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...
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...
Harvard to Offer Full Rides to 50 Veterans and Civil Servants for Master's Degrees in Public Policy The $100,000 fellowships are being offered at a time when the school has come under attack from President Donald Trump, who...
Fort Hood Senior Noncommissioned Officer Arrested a Second Time on Child Sex Assault Charges Sgt. Maj. Victor Manuel Rivera was arrested on June 18 and released on a $90,000 bond on June 30. He is facing a first-degree...
Trump Taps Air Force and Space Force Generals as Next Service Vice Chiefs Nominations were put in front of the Senate for Space Force Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton and Air Force Gen. Thomas Bussiere to...
The New VA Budget Pushes to Privatize Care, Risking the Veterans Health System "We are watching the slow dismantling of the VA from the inside out, buried in a budget document. If left unchecked, this...
21-Year-Old Soldier Hacked Databases, Threatened to Leak Stolen Data, Feds Say John Wagenius was stationed at Fort Cavazo and at a U.S. Army base in South Korea throughout the scheme between April 2023...
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-03/1time%20the%20hurt%20locker%201200.jpg?itok=bm3TskVn "Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie star in the equally loved and hated "The Hurt Locker." (Summit Entertainment)")
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-03/1time%20japanese%20shipwrecks%20illegally%20salvaged%201200.jpg?itok=BNd6W2kY "One of three Japanese caro transports from World War II that lie off the coast of Borneo and have been destroyed by illegal metal salvage operations. Authorities describe them as "an unrecognizable heap of metal piled up into a ball.” (Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency)")
