Richard Sisk

Richard Sisk has more than 45 years of journalism experience in reporting and editing in the U.S. and abroad for United Press International, the N.Y. Daily News and now for Military.com. He has covered police beats, the courts, transportation and politics in New York City and Washington, D.C., and had numerous assignments in the Mideast, Europe and Latin America. He has covered six presidential campaigns and since 2016 has been Military.com’s Pentagon reporter. Sisk is a Vietnam veteran who served with the 2nd Battalion, Fourth Marines, in 1967-68.

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U.S. Coast Guard landing barge at Normandy, France during D-Dy invasion.

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The White House has backed off President Donald Trump’s stunning social media proposal to change the name of Veterans Day to...

Helicopter aboard the USS Blue Ridge pushed into the sea off the coast of Vietnam

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Fifty years later, the surreal images of U.S. sailors and Marines scrambling to push, drag and muscle helicopters overboard...

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British General Gave Order 250 Years Ago that Sparked Revolution in What Became America

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Secret Recordings Show President Roosevelt Debating Military Desegregation with Civil Rights Leaders

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The appeals hearing was the latest in a legal battle between veterans and the VA on whether the campus in LA will be cleared...

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Veterans who were fired from the federal workforce in the wave of the Trump administration job cuts called their dismissals a...

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Unemployment Rate for Veterans Ticks Down as Trump Touts Boost in Manufacturing Jobs

The unemployment rate for veterans ticked down from 4.2% to 4.1% in February despite the Trump administration's push for...

Retired 4-Star Officers Join Suit to House Homeless Veterans at California VA Medical Center

Adm. William McRaven and two other retired four-star officers have joined a lawsuit to force the Department of Veterans...

80th anniversary of the Liberation of Manila at Manila American Cemetery

Battle of Manila 80th Anniversary: Reclusive Son of Gen. Douglas MacArthur Makes Rare Statement

The reclusive only child of five-star Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur made a rare public statement to honor the Americans and...

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Airmen's Search for Remains Recalls Top Secret WWII Mission to Turn Planes into Flying Bombs

U.S. airmen in England assisted with an archaeological dig aimed at finding the remains of an Army pilot lost there during...

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