Remembering the Last, First Women's Airforce Service Pilot Betty "Tack" Blake was believed to be the last surviving graduate of the first Women’s Airforce Service Pilot training class...
These Were the First Women to Join Each US Military Service Who were the trailblazers? Here are their stories.
'Staying Alive with Honor': How American Female POWs Survived Their Ordeal Fewer than 100 military women have been held as POWs throughout American history.
She Was the First Black Female US Naval Academy Plebe When Janie L. Mines arrived at the Naval Academy, the academy wasn't ready for women.
4 Female Veterans to Honor During Women's History Month Here's a look at just a few women who put themselves in harm's way to protect our way of life.
How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Helped End the Military's Policy of Forced Abortion Until 1970, pregnant women in the military had a choice: get an abortion or get out. Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped change that.
A World War II Veteran Recalls Her Service in the Women's Army Corps at Age 100 Lorraine Mulvaney Vogelsang joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943, one year after President Franklin Roosevelt...
Cathay Williams Was the Army's Only Female Buffalo Soldier and First Black Female Enlistee Cathay Williams, the only female Buffalo soldier, originally was captured as "contraband" by the Union Army during the Civil...
'Tenacious Fighting Women' Held Off the Nazi Attack on Stalingrad for Two Days The fighting women of Stalingrad that held off the Germans' attack for two days had just graduated from high school.
A Jewish Woman Drew First Blood In Revenge for the Holocaust With other partisans from the Vilnius Ghetto, Vitka Kempner fought back against Nazi occupation.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
