Silence Was My Father’s Fortress. I Shared It for a Time Until Poetry Set Me Free. When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of...
Fort Liberty Soldier Gets Booted After Indictment for Weapons Trafficking, Lying About White Nationalist Ties A paratrooper at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, who was indicted last week on charges of weapons trafficking and lying about...
The All-Airborne 'Remembrance Bowl' in Normandy Should Be a Bigger Deal Than the Army-Navy Game In May 2018, the newly renamed "Remembrance Bowl," sponsored by Patton Legacy Sports, was added to the list of D-Day...
WWII Legend Vince Speranza's Extended Lyrics to the Paratrooper Anthem 'Blood on the Risers' For some, the lyrics to "Blood on the Risers" might be a little disconcerting.
How Normandy Remembers the Only US Military Chaplain Killed in Action on D-Day Catholic chaplain Capt. Ignatius Maternowski was immortalized in 2021 with a stained-glass window depicting his image, his...
Vigil at 'Iron Mike': Paratroopers Pay Tribute to Fallen Comrades at Iconic Normandy Memorial John Brown was 20 years old when he joined the Army Air Forces in 1947. World War II was over, but he still wanted to serve...
A Paratrooper Started D-Day by Hanging from His Chute on a Church Pvt. John Steele's unit parachuted in the wrong place, while Steele himself was unlucky enough to get his chute caught on a...
How You Can Help the 'Band of Brothers' Cast Recreate Easy Company's Drop into Normandy 80 Years Later Donations to the nonprofit event will cover the cost of the "Placid Lassie" C-47 Skytrain, equipment for the jump and...
The First Parachute Jump from a Fixed-Wing Aircraft Was a Terrifying Risk for Everyone Involved U.S. troops have been jumping out of perfectly good airplanes for more than 80 years, but a significant amount of training...
A Nashville Singer and a World War II D-Day Veteran Co-Wrote a Song About Normandy Singer Karen Waldrup teamed up with 101st Airborne veteran Jim "Pee Wee" Martin to sing about his experiences on D-Day.
Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday -- the third since it...
Tweaks to Army's Physical Fitness Test Are Relatively Modest The Army has approved a series of revisions to its physical fitness test, recalibrating performance benchmarks in a modest...
White House Says Trump’s Proposal to Rename Veterans Day Has Been Scrapped The White House has backed off President Donald Trump’s stunning social media proposal to change the name of Veterans Day to...
Weather and Night Vision Goggles Were Likely Factors in Marine Corps Helicopter Crash, Report Finds The CH-53 Super Stallion crashed Feb. 6, 2024, during a late night flight when it hit a mountain near Pine Valley, California...
Hegseth Works Hard to Portray Himself as a Man of the Troops. They Might Not Be Buying It. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and National Guardsman, has attempted to reframe the role of the...