Their Relatives Were Black Heroes. They Fear the Military Won't Celebrate Their Stories Anymore. When Tarence Bailey Sr. received a formal memo from the Maryland National Guard declining to support a celebration for...
Naval Academy Nixes Classes, Topics as Full Scope of Trump Diversity Ban Remains Unknown The Navy is also taking more of its training programs offline -- the latest in a series of quiet reviews, policy changes and...
No Flyover or Band for Frederick Douglass Celebration. Maryland Guard Says It Violates Pentagon Policy. A formal memo from the Maryland National Guard's Joint Operations Center, dated Feb. 7, said the reserve component would be...
Biography of Civil War Veteran Banned as Military Schools Cull Books and Lessons Under Trump Orders A review of content taught at the Department of Defense Education Activity schools has resulted in restrictions of lessons on...
Airman Promotion Test to Tech Sergeant Delayed as Air Force Combs Documents for Subjects Banned by Trump The testing cycle, which was scheduled to begin Saturday and go through April 15, will be pushed back to March 3 and will...
Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event Until this week, Army Recruiting Command had a public partnership with the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, or BEYA, an...
Air Force Nixes Officer Applicant Diversity Goals as Directed by Trump's Executive Orders The Department of the Air Force will no longer set ambitious goals to diversify the officer applicant pool.
Tuskegee Airman and Legendary World War II Fighter Pilot Harry Stewart Dies at 100 Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single...
West Point Eliminates Student Clubs Related to Gender or Race After Trump Order The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has axed at least a dozen extracurricular clubs geared toward women and minority...
Handbook Used by Airmen to Study for Promotions Removed Due to Trump's Diversity Order Air Force Handbook 1, the primary 600-plus-page study document used by enlisted airmen to score well for the Weighted Airman...
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://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)")
