Louis Gossett Jr., Award-Winning Actor Who Portrayed Hard-Nosed Marine in 'An Officer and a Gentleman,' Has Died at 87 Over the course of more than 70 years as an actor, Louis Gossett Jr. contributed some of America's favorite military...
Michael Douglas' Benjamin Franklin Brings France Into the American Revolution in a New Apple TV+ Series This new dramatization of Franklin's most important diplomatic magnum opus is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer...
17 Books Every Service Member Should Read, According to Troops and Veterans We surveyed U.S. troops and veterans for the best books that every active-duty service member should read.
'Band of Brothers' Actors Are Training to Parachute into Normandy for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day With the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy approaching in June, some of the actors decided they would...
WW2 Veteran, Turning 100 Soon, Belts Out National Anthem Before NHL Game Robert McClintock is a retired U.S. Army Air Corps lieutenant who will turn 100 years old on Monday.
'2054' Is a Novel of the New Atomic Bomb and the Next American Civil War The year is 2054. The United States is recovering from a destructive war with China. When the otherwise healthy president of...
Go Inside the Blue Angels with a New Documentary from Glen Powell and JJ Abrams The U.S. Navy's premier aeronautical acrobatical demonstration team known as the Blue Angels has been wowing air-show...
Is ‘Helldivers 2’ Really ‘Space Vietnam’? Not Really “Helldivers 2” is riotous fun, and there’s a reason why millions of players have gladly joined the Super Earth imperium as it...
'The Hurt Locker' and America's Fading Memory of the Iraq War On the 21st anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, it's time to reassess how "The Hurt Locker" and other movies and TV shows...
The 11 Finalists for the First-Ever American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History The American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History is like March Madness for the best books on military history.
This World War II POW Endured More Than 50 Years in Captivity When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II...
Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Bribery Plot Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke, once the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy, was commanding its forces in Europe and...
Pentagon Says Troops Can Only Be Exempt from Shaving Their Facial Hair for a Year Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a...
Black Vietnam Veteran’s Story Reveals War’s Harsh Realities 50 Years Later It was May 1970, deep in the jungles of Vietnam, and 19-year-old infantryman John Smith stepped to the edge of a hill to...
Trump Says US Forces Sank Third Suspected Drug Boat off Venezuela President Donald Trump did not say how many people were killed in the third strike.
![](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-03/1time%20Lou%20Gossett%20jr%20emil%20foley%201200.jpg?itok=9f5AwwuZ "Louis Gossett Jr. in his Academy Award-winning role as Marine Corps Sgt. Emil Foley in 1982's "An Officer and a Gentleman." (Paramount Pictures)")
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-03/1time%202054%20cover%201200.jpg?itok=CBCr8lFl ""2054" by Elliot Ackerman and Adm. James Stavridis is on bookshelves now.")
![](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-03/1time%20blue%20angels%20amazon%20mgm%201200.jpg?itok=Faln_u8n ""The Blue Angels" starts streaming on Amazon Prime on May 23, 2024. (Amazon MGM)")
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-03/1time%20the%20hurt%20locker%201200.jpg?itok=bm3TskVn "Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie star in the equally loved and hated "The Hurt Locker." (Summit Entertainment)")
