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...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
