America's Last Living Ace Pilot from World War II Dies at Age 103 A World War II veteran from Nebraska believed to be America’s last surviving “ace” pilot because he shot down five enemy...
Purple Heart Belonging to Iowa Native Being Returned to Family 80 Years Later Earlier this summer, Bill Thompson was cleaning out an Alabama home and getting it ready for sale when he came across...
Fort Stewart Soldiers Who Fought Gunman, Provided Care to Wounded Recognized for Valor The soldiers were awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for what Secretary of the Army Dan Driscol described as a combination...
Buffalo Soldiers Would Get Highest Congressional Honor Under Senate Proposal More than 150 years after the first regiments of Buffalo Soldiers were formed, a bipartisan pair of senators is looking to...
Coast Guard Helicopter Crew Awarded Medals for Heroic Texas Flood Rescues The Corpus Christi, Texas, crew is credited with rescuing 18 people and helping to evacuate 165 from life-threatening...
Army Dramatically Expands Combat Patch Eligibility The policy shift, issued last week, covers soldiers who served in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon...
Tim Kennedy, Green Beret and Army Hype Man, Under Investigation for Lying About Combat Valor The admission by Kennedy, who is often seen promoting the Army's top brass, triggered an investigation and raised fresh...
The Medal of Honor Fraud Case that Took Stolen Valor to the Extreme H.L.I. Lordship Industries of Long Island, New York, admitted to selling unauthorized versions of the Medal of Honor, the...
This Navy Destroyer's New Battle Flag Pays Tribute to the Service's First Female Nurses Flying during Women's History Month, the flag is a particularly poignant choice for the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile...
Malcolm Gladwell's 'Medal of Honor' Podcast Is Back for Season 2 with New Host Beyond simply retelling the amazing Medal of Honor stories, Gladwell took the venture a step further, exploring why ordinary...
Portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with Slave Rehung at West Point The reinstallation marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to reverse the work of a congressionally mandated...
How the Men on a Navy Submarine Survived After Sinking 240 Feet in the Atlantic Trapped 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Lt. Oliver Naquin could not ensure the crew of the USS Squalus...
All Services Now Issue Form DD214-1 to Departing Reservists The military's reserve components now issue departing reservists a new record that summarizes their periods of active and...
From Jackson to McKinley: What Trump's Shift of Presidential Hero Says About His Evolving Goals Trump's shift, rather than merely swapping one infatuation for another, demonstrates how his mindset and priorities have...
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...
