Veterans File Class-Action Suit over Medical Retirements for Burn Pit-Related Illnesses The retired service members say the Army's refusal to call illnesses linked to exposure to burn pits "combat-related"...
The Tactical Knife that Saved a Medal of Honor Recipient’s Life During Intense Hand-to-Hand Combat in Iraq Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his heroic actions during the Second Battle of...
How Jon Stewart's Visits with Wounded Iraq War Veterans Shaped his Military Advocacy Stewart is pushing for the expansion of the PACT Act to include U.S. special operations forces based in Uzbekistan and...
US Navy Battle Flags: A Visual Guide The Navy's tradition of flying battle flags is as old as America itself. Here's an (incomplete) guide to the service's best...
Wrapping Up Mission, US Troops Will Leave Some Longstanding Bases in Iraq Under New Deal For years, Iraqi officials have periodically called for a withdrawal of coalition forces, and formal talks to wind down the U...
Why No One Could Capture the Experience of Junior Enlisted Marines Like 'Generation Kill' Author Evan Wright HBO's "Generation Kill" is probably the best show ever made about modern warfare told from the perspective of those who...
250,000 Veterans Agree to $6 Billion Settlement with 3M over Earplugs Alleged to Cause Hearing Loss The cases revolved around 3M's Combat Arms Earplugs, Version 2, that were issued to troops between 2003 and 2015.
'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...
Americans Were Never Supposed to Hear Toby Keith's Ass-Kicking Post-9/11 Battle Song on the Radio You know the one we mean. The commandant of the Marine Corps convinced him America needed it.
'Hiding Saddam Hussein': How a Farmer Kept a Brutal Dictator Safe from US Troops Filmmaker Halkawt Mustafa spent a decade telling the story of how an Iraqi farmer who knew little about Saddam Hussein came...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...