Black Vietnam Veteran’s Story Reveals War’s Harsh Realities 50 Years Later It was May 1970, deep in the jungles of Vietnam, and 19-year-old infantryman John Smith stepped to the edge of a hill to...
Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Naval Aviator and Corrupt Appropriator, Dies at 83 Cunningham, a California Republican, joined the Navy at age 25 and during the Vietnam War became the first “ace,” an honor...
40 Years of Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Reunions. Now, a Final 'Taps' In a pesky drizzle, a handful of people recently set out 400 small American flags on an empty lot in memory of the 400...
Everything You Need to Know About the Military Draft What is the military draft and Selective Service? Here’s everything you need to know.
FedEx Founder Fred Smith, a Marine Corps Veteran who Revolutionized Package Delivery, Dies at 80 He told The Associated Press in a 2023 interview that everything he did running FedEx came from his experience in the Marines...
American Military Jeeps Are Rising from the Ashes in Vietnam A company called Van Daryl is rebuilding the Jeeps the American military left behind in Vietnam, and you’ll hardly recognize...
How a Military Veteran's Experience in Vietnam Inspired Him to Write 'Cast Away' Academy Award-nominated screenwriter William Broyles Jr. is a decorated Marine Corps Vietnam War veteran and shares how "Cast...
Why the US Used Agent Orange in Vietnam and What Makes It So Deadly The United States military sprayed nearly 12,000 square miles of Vietnamese jungles with the chemical defoliant over a 10...
Lessons Not Learned As this is being written on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the final end of the Vietnam War, that history is...
The Best Military Movies and Shows Streaming Right Now on Netflix If you're looking for the best war movies on Netflix, we're here to help you stop the scrolling, move past the algorithm and...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
