5 Powerful Artifacts in the New National Medal of Honor Museum The new National Medal of Honor Museum is set to officially open to the public on March 25, 2025, in Arlington, Texas.
The Still-Living Janitor Who Received a 'Posthumous' Medal of Honor Army Pvt. William Crawford was declared killed in action and was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor, which was presented to...
A New Museum in Texas Tells the Life Stories of Medal of Honor Recipients A new museum devoted to telling the stories of those who have received the nation's highest military honor is opening this...
A Chinese Woman Led the Largest and Most Successful Pirate Fleet in History While Caribbean pirates like Blackbeard could boast a handful of ships and hundreds of men. Ching Shih commanded an entire...
The Release of a 1961 Plan to Break Up the CIA Revives an Old Conspiracy Theory About Who Killed JFK Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s memo ends with a previously redacted page that spells out a proposal to give...
Highest-Ranking Black Medal of Honor Recipient Erased in Pentagon DEI Purge The latest casualty in the Department of Defense's sweep of all things related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is...
WWII Airstrip in Central California Sold. It Was ‘The Country Club of Training Bases’ Located in western Fresno County about 10 miles south of Dos Palos and 15 miles north of Firebaugh, Eagle Field dates back to...
The Golden 14: How Black Women Exploited a Loophole to Serve During World War I The Golden 14 were attached to the USS Triton during World War I and served as the Navy's first enlisted Black women.
Pentagon Restores Histories of Navajo Code Talkers, Other Native Veterans After Public Outcry The Pentagon restored some webpages highlighting the crucial wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native...
The Trailblazing Nurses Who Kept the Tuskegee Airmen Flying As the U.S. war machine churned to life during World War II, the need for manpower began to push the limits of the...
Banned Books, School Walkouts, Child Care Shortages: Military Families Confront Pentagon's Shifting Rules At a public school, the protest might have led to a detention and maybe some revoked after-school privileges. But on a...
Air Force, Navy Warn Troops About Political Speech Amid Trump Administration Changes New memos from the Air Force and the Navy warn troops to watch their political speech online and in person, and even...
Jury Acquits Navy Command Master Chief of Sexually Assaulting Teen Girl A six-member jury has acquitted a career Navy man of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old relative during a sleepover at his...
The 5 Most Realistic Army Movies, According to an Army Historian It might surprise some war movie fans to know that at least one Army historian doesn't think there's anything special about...
The Still-Living Janitor Who Received a 'Posthumous' Medal of Honor Army Pvt. William Crawford was declared killed in action and was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor, which was presented to...
![](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-03/ching%20shih%201200.jpg?itok=0MBEI37y "Sometimes called, Zheng Yi Sao or "Wife of Zheng Yi," she's known to history as Ching Shih for what she accomplished once he died.")
![](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-03/1time%20thin%20red%20line%201200.jpg?itok=6Vcdpnj3 "The 1998 film "The Thin Red Line" was an adaptation of a World War II veteran's book. (20th Century Studios)")