Dick Rutan, Who Set an Aviation Milestone When He Flew Nonstop Around the World, Is Dead at 85 He joined the U.S. Air Force as a teenager and flew more than 300 combat missions during the Vietnam War.
Troops Fired on Kent State Students in 1970. Survivors See Echoes in Today's Campus Protest Movement Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the National Guard shootings that killed four unarmed students...
Terry Anderson, AP Reporter Abducted in Lebanon and Held Captive for Years, Has Died at 76 After graduating from high school, Anderson turned down a scholarship to the University of Michigan in favor of enlisting in...
Army Ranger Legend and Last Living Korean War Medal of Honor Recipient Ralph Puckett Dies at 97 When Ralph Puckett was chosen to lead a new Ranger company in 1950, he said a prayer: "Dear God, don't let me get a bunch of...
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...
'Fracture Jaw': The Army's Plan to Use Tactical Nuclear Weapons During the Vietnam War On Jan. 24, 1968, Westmoreland asked Sharp to move tactical nuclear weapons into northern Quang Tri province as a last-ditch...
How the 3 Living Black Medal of Honor Recipients Embody the Military’s Top Award On Jan. 10, 1968, Private 1st Class Clarence Sasser was part of a reconnaissance mission in southern Vietnam when his...
The First Marine to Die Defending an Embassy Was Killed in the Tet Offensive Cpl. James Conrad Marshall was the first Marine security guard to give his life while defending American embassy personnel.
'Land of Bad' Updates 'Bat 21' for the Global War on Terror While details surrounding the plot of 'Land of Bad' are sparse, it appears set amid one of the extant U.S. military campaigns...
Last Vietnam Vet in Senate, Set to Retire, Reflects on Efforts to Reconcile with Former Enemies in Hanoi In May, Tom Carper announced that he'd be retiring from the Senate after 14 successful campaigns in Delaware for statewide...
Top Enlisted Leader at Air Force Special Operations Command Fired, Facing Investigation Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Green, who advised on the readiness, training and quality of life of enlisted air commandos, was...
Army to Soldiers: Reenlist by Monday if You Want to Claim Incentives While it is not unusual for the Army to curtail incentives after meeting its retention goals, the troops were given little...
Former Air Force Commander Punished with 21 Days' Confinement, Forfeiture of Pay After Guilty Plea Col. Christopher Meeker, the former commander of Wright-Patterson's 88th Air Base Wing, was sentenced Tuesday evening after...
New Air Force Academy Mission Statement Drops Educate, Adds a Different Focus The Air Force Academy has rolled out a new mission statement that drops the word "educate" and adds in a focus on winning...
The Army Is Getting Rid of Athletic Trainers The Army is set to phase out its unit-level athletic trainers -- civilian specialists tasked with providing immediate care...
