The First Medal of Honor Recipient of WWII Was Basically a Modern-Day Berserker To look at Lt. Alexander R. "Sandy" Nininger when he began his plebe year at the U.S. Military Academy, one might never have...
Medals of Honor Awarded to 5 Soldiers from Korean War and 2 from Vietnam In his opening remarks at the White House ceremony, Biden said the Medal of Honor recipients epitomized the American ideal...
Army Set to Debut Master Combat Badges in Spring, Memo Says The Army is set to begin awarding Master Combat Badges, which will combine expert and traditional combat badges, next spring...
Highest Award Congress Can Bestow Going to Revered Vietnam POW Everett Alvarez A Vietnam prisoner of war who spent years in captivity in the prison camp they dubbed the Hanoi Hilton and whose story was...
Congress Eyes Top Honor for Navy Pilot Who Was Second-Longest Ever US Military POW Lawmakers are working to award the Congressional Gold Medal to retired Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr., who spent eight and a half...
Senior Enlisted Marine Reduced to Sergeant for Wearing Unauthorized Awards, Including Purple Heart Per a plea agreement, then-Sgt. Maj. Charlie Clawson was reduced in rank after a Sept. 13 court-martial found him in...
Navy Submarine Honored with Top Unit Award for 3 Secret Intelligence Missions The USS Washington, a Navy fast-attack submarine, has been awarded a prestigious unit award for its work in securing key...
3 Airmen Awarded Purple Hearts for Injuries During Deadly Tower 22 Attack in Jordan Three airmen who were injured during a January drone attack on a remote base in Jordan, which killed three service members...
'No Hesitation': Vietnam's Lifesaving 'Dustoff' Medevac Crews to Get Congressional Gold Medal To honor those who flew more than 496,000 Army medevac missions from May 1962 through March 1973, the House last week passed...
Coast Guardsman Becomes 5th Member of Service Awarded for Rescues During Maui Wildfire Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class John Thompson on Wednesday became the fifth Coast Guardsman to receive the service's highest honor...
Hegseth Orders End to Race Consideration in Admissions at Military Service Academies Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all military service academies to no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex for...
'Billion Dollar Spy' Is the Real Story of the Only Russian Agent Whose Portrait Hangs in CIA Headquarters The upcoming film, based on a book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman, stars Russell Crowe, Tony Goldwyn...
Pentagon Moves Out on Transgender Ban After Supreme Court Ruling About 1,000 service members who volunteered to leave the military after the Trump administration unveiled its transgender...
Soviet-Era Spacecraft Plunges to Earth After 53 Years Stuck in Orbit The chances of anyone getting clobbered by spacecraft debris were exceedingly low, scientists said.
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...