The Continental Army’s Medical Crisis: Benjamin Rush’s Whistleblowing in 1778 Benjamin Rush exposed severe mismanagement in Revolutionary War military hospitals, documenting supply abuses, high mortality...
German Officer Sacrificed His Life Trying to Save an American Soldier in the WWII Battle of Hurtgen Forest A 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield on Nov. 12, 1944. Lt...
The Alaska Air Route That Sent 8,000 American Warplanes to the Soviet Union in World War II Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a...
America's Game: How Army and Navy Built One of the Most Legendary College Football Rivalries For most players, the Army-Navy game marks their last time in pads. For the seniors, it's typically their final competitive...
The Walking Dead in Vietnam: How 1st Battalion, 9th Marines Earned the Marine Corps' Highest Casualty Rate When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight...
Italy Once Stole Secret American Intelligence Codes Which Nearly Made Britain Lose WWII Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence...
When Battles Go Quiet for Holidays Holidays carry enormous emotional weight. They mark time, culture, and memory, and they often shape how people interpret...
The American Destroyer That Sacrificed Itself to Turn Back Japan’s Battleship Fleet at Leyte Gulf Taffy 3—consisting of six escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts—was there to cover troops storming...
The American Senator and Three Tanks That Took on Rommel Before Operation Torch In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed...
‘We Were Behind Barbed Wire’: George Takei on Fighting for a Country That Imprisoned Their Families In a powerful new talk in Tokyo, Star Trek legend George Takei revisits his childhood behind barbed wire in U.S. World War II...
This Navy Dentist Engraved 'Remember Pearl Harbor' on Hideki Tojo's Dentures For roughly three months in 1946 and 1947, the man who approved the attack on Pearl Harbor walked around Sugamo Prison with...
Black History Month Turns 100 Black History Month highlights Black servicemembers whose courage shaped the military despite segregation and discrimination.
DoW Christian Service Draws Dozens of Complaints from Members, Contractors One contractor told Military.com that the email invite was "stark, depressing, almost threatening."
The Youngest American Killed in Vietnam Enlisted in the Marines at 14 PFC Dan Bullock became the youngest American service member killed in the Vietnam War after forging his birth certificate to...
Why You Didn’t Get the Job: Understanding How Companies Hire In today’s turbulent, unpredictable and frustrating hiring market, job-seekers are seemingly doing everything right and...
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-10/decryption.jpg?itok=-Okhv_iU "An Enigma decryption machine, called a "bombe." Decryption machines like this were used by both the Axis and Allies to break enemy codes and access vital intelligence during WWII. (U.S. Air Force photo)")
