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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Modular housing for homeless veterans in Los Angeles

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U.S. Army soldiers carrying a man on a stretcher during Vietnam War

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Homeless man walks along a street lined with trash in downtown Los Angeles

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The class-action suit was filed in November 2022 by the nonprofit Public Counsel law firm on behalf of 14 unhoused and...

Hiring sign is displayed outside of a retail store

Unemployment Rate for Female Veterans Spikes to 7% in Latest Jobs Report

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Housing Agency Scraps Catch-22-Type Rule That Kept Disabled Homeless Vets from Receiving Rent Vouchers

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Ukrainian soldiers from the 3rd Spartan Task Force Brigade

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin welcomes NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

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Dignified transfer of remains of WWII vet Nathan Baskin

Remains of Jewish D-Day Soldier Lost for 80 Years in Nazi Mass Grave Will Be Buried in Normandy

The case of Army 1st Lt. Nathan B. Baskind was unique in the annals of the more than 73,000 U.S. service members still listed...

mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M.

Bill to Compensate Radiation Fallout Victims of Atom Bomb Tests Allowed to Expire

Citing concerns that the bill would be too costly, House Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned the House without allowing a vote on...

Lead isotope data architect with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

Forensic Teams Work to Identify Remains of American POWs Killed in Tokyo Firebombing During World War II

The project has shed light on the long-ago deaths of service members killed in the U.S. push for a Japanese surrender during...

Former Army National Guard Spec. Donald Carey and his service dog “Jeep”

Homeless Vets Find Housing on Old Walter Reed Grounds, Regardless of Discharge Status

HELP USA has overseen the HELP Walter Reed Veteran Apartments project to convert the former Building 14, which used to house...

In May 1945, Army Staff Sgt. Horace Evers wrote a letter home on Adolf Hitler's personal stationery. (Image courtesy Chapman University's Center for American War Letters)

Before VE Day, This Soldier Wrote Home on Hitler's Stationery

The Million Letters Campaign seeks to find and preserve at least one million articles of correspondence from every U.S...

Trump Agrees to Meet Kim Jong-Un for Denuclearization Talks

President Donald Trump agreed to hold face-to-face peace talks with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

This July 16, 1945, file photo shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at the Trinity test site near Alamogordo, N.M. (AP File Photo)

The Forgotten Victims of the First Atomic Blast That ‘Oppenheimer’ Left Out May Finally Get Their Due

Robert Oppenheimer and the scientists he recruited to develop the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos were well aware of the...

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