This Brigadier Penguin Is the Highest-Ranking Animal in the World Sir Nils Olav III is a king penguin, but only holds a rank equivalent to brigadier general in the Norwegian Army.
5 Amazing Stories About the F-15 in Action to Celebrate Its 50th Birthday In the late 1960s, the Air Force was looking for a new air superiority fighter. The result was the F-15 Eagle.
The 5 Worst Rations Ever Given to Troops in Combat We can say what we want about MREs (and we will), but compared to the other kinds of food handed out to military forces...
7 Civil War Battle Streamers Modern-Day US Army Units Will Be Forced to Remove We may not fly our unit flags into battle these days, but the unit guidon is still an important military tradition.
That Time a Drunk Richard Nixon Tried to Nuke North Korea The North Koreans have been provoking the United States for as long as North Koreans have been praising Kim Jong-Il for being...
The History of Aviator Call Signs and How Pilots Get Their New Name For every pilot flying an aircraft in the military, there is a story behind their call sign that they probably wouldn't want...
How a World War II Private Accidentally Joined the French Resistance Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Southern France during World War II, often gets lost in the shadow of the Normandy...
Veterans Are More Likely to Own a Home. Here's Why. The idea of buying a house with no down payment and more buyer protections and inspections than traditional mortgage loans...
Remembering the Battle of the Bulge The German army in late 1944 launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces. The battle that...
Why 'Veterans Day' Doesn't Use an Apostrophe The right way to spell out "Veterans Day" -- because it doesn't belong to anyone.
Harvard to Offer Full Rides to 50 Veterans and Civil Servants for Master's Degrees in Public Policy The $100,000 fellowships are being offered at a time when the school has come under attack from President Donald Trump, who...
Fort Hood Senior Noncommissioned Officer Arrested a Second Time on Child Sex Assault Charges Sgt. Maj. Victor Manuel Rivera was arrested on June 18 and released on a $90,000 bond on June 30. He is facing a first-degree...
Trump Taps Air Force and Space Force Generals as Next Service Vice Chiefs Nominations were put in front of the Senate for Space Force Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton and Air Force Gen. Thomas Bussiere to...
The New VA Budget Pushes to Privatize Care, Risking the Veterans Health System "We are watching the slow dismantling of the VA from the inside out, buried in a budget document. If left unchecked, this...
21-Year-Old Soldier Hacked Databases, Threatened to Leak Stolen Data, Feds Say John Wagenius was stationed at Fort Cavazo and at a U.S. Army base in South Korea throughout the scheme between April 2023...