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.
Navy Gets Request for ICE, National Guard to Operate Out of Chicago-Area Base The installation, home to the Navy's only recruit training facility, would provide facilities and logistics for immigration...
Air Force Academy Cancels Lecture After Discovering Speaker Disparaged Trump Air Force Academy officials have canceled an upcoming annual lecture after discovering the speaker's online history of...
Jan. 6 Rioter Fatally Shot by Police Approved for Military Funeral Honors by Air Force Ashli Babbitt, who served as a senior airman, was among a group of rioters attempting to smash through barricaded doors...
Venezuela Prepares for Potential US Attack with Armed Drones Designed by Iran The long-standing links between Caracas and Tehran have been a source of contention between Venezuela and the United States.
Mystery Surrounds $1.2 Billion Army Contract to Build Huge Detention Tent Camp in Texas Desert When President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what...