The Golden 14: How Black Women Exploited a Loophole to Serve During World War I The Golden 14 were attached to the USS Triton during World War I and served as the Navy's first enlisted Black women.
'The Unkillable Soldier' Who Kept Fighting Despite Losing an Eye and Hand in World War I Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United...
The Most Innovative War Movies Ever Made Every once in awhile, a war movie comes along that does something truly innovative to make its story memorable. These are...
Trump's Move to Restore Old Army Base Names Highlights Nebraska Man's Heroics at 18 in World War I For more than a century, Fort Benning's name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the...
6 Video Games that Teach Real Military History Games have a long history of being used to teach military lessons, starting with ancient board games such as checkers and...
The Little-Known War Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Songs Criscrossing decades, continents and conflict, we’ve collected some of the most intriguing stories behind a variety of...
The Best World War I Movies, According to Service Members and Veterans These are the best World War I movies of the past eight decades, according to a Military.com survey of U.S. service members...
US Navy Battle Flags: A Visual Guide The Navy's tradition of flying battle flags is as old as America itself. Here's an (incomplete) guide to the service's best...
Rodeo Legend, Movie Star and Tank Veteran: ‘Hoot’ Gibson Could Do It All Silver-screen legend Edward "Hoot" Gibson wasn't just a cowboy for the camera; he was an award-winning wrangler.
Remembering Soldiers Who Lost Their Lives on the First Veterans Day The first Veterans Day was called “Armistice Day,” and on this first day of observance in 1918, several Americans lost their...
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...
