How Elvis Presley Revitalized Efforts to Build a Pearl Harbor Memorial Support for a USS Arizona memorial received a huge boost on March 25, 1961, when Elvis Presley performed a benefit concert at...
How Veterans Tell Stories Through Song at the Grand Ole Opry When Richard Casper came home from Afghanistan, he had things to say that he couldn't. One of Nashville's top songwriters...
9 Lyrics from Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' That Perfectly Describe Life as a Military Spouse Swift is known for leaving cryptic messages, Easter eggs and layered meanings in her lyrics for her fans to find, argue over...
Aretha Franklin Inadvertently Recorded One Of Vietnam’s Best Protest Songs African-American veterans returning home from Vietnam transformed "Chain of Fools" into an "angry rejection of the chain of...
Rapper Shaggy Got His Distinctive Voice from Making Fun of His Marine Corps Drill Instructors One might think that making fun of a drill instructor would lead to a severely shortened life span, but for reggae rapper...
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.
'Grounded': An Unusual New Opera Reexamines the Complexities of America’s Drone Wars Abroad The plot of the opera follows the journey of Jess, an Air Force F-16 fighter pilot flying combat missions in the skies over...
Katy Perry Is Fighting a Dying, Elderly Veteran to Force Him to Sell His Home Singer Katy Perry and fiancé Orlando Bloom are in the middle of a trial that could result in an 84-year-old Army veteran and...
This Taylor Swift Song Is a Tribute to Her Marine Grandfather's Service at Guadalcanal Written during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, "Epiphany" explores the similar emotions experienced by soldiers...
How British Army Vet Turned 'NCIS' Actor David McCallum Helped Birth a Hip-Hop Classic Actor David McCallum spent two years in the army, commissioned in the 3rd Battalion, Gold Coast Regiment, part of the Royal...
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...
