One Army Chinook Crewman's Experiences in Vietnam Supporting the 101st and the Marines Over a single 12-month tour, Paden logged 1,800 flight hours as a door gunner, crew chief and flight engineer on one of...
Arizona Department of Public Safety Helicopter Crash Kills 2 While Responding to Shootout An Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter responding to shootout between police and a suspect has crashed in an...
US Approves Major New Arms Sales to Israel Worth $6.67 Billion and to Saudi Arabia Worth $9 Billion The sales to Israel are split into four separate packages, including one for 30 Apache attack helicopters and related...
Coast Guard Aircrews Grade Hollywood’s Biggest Helicopter Missions Hollywood loves helicopter rescues that look heroic. Real Coast Guard aviation runs on checklists, limits, and hard calls. We...
Navy Investigation Finds Osprey Safety Issues Were Allowed to Grow for Years A Navy report acknowledges the military failed to address a growing series of issues with the V-22 Osprey aircraft since it...
Army Turns the Apache Into a Drone-Killing Gunship The Army is giving the AH-64E Apache a new mission, transforming the iconic gunship into a fast-moving drone killer designed...
Vietnam DUSTOFF Pilot Who Saved 3,000 Earned Gold Medal Honor for MEDEVAC Crews By then, he had flown over 3,000 casualties to safety during 11 months evacuating wounded soldiers from Vietnam's most...
Crews Are Safe Following Two Navy Crashes Two Navy aircraft from the USS Nimitz crashed minutes apart in the South China Sea.
Operation Ivory Soap: The WWII Experiment That Created Modern Helicopter Combat Missions Between June 15 and July 29, 1945, six Army Air Forces pilots flying experimental Sikorsky helicopters evacuated between 75...
After 56 Years, a Vietnam War Soldier Finally Comes Home In the spring of 1968, Donald P. Gervais’s helicopter crashed into a ravine in the dangerous A Shau Valley in the Republic of...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
From Iraq to Iran: How Congress Handed Over War Powers to the Presidency The 9/11 attacks were a sea change in U.S. foreign policy and diminished congressional authority, with partisanship on...
Left Face Down in the Mud: How an Air Force Veteran, Amputee Found Hope A life-changing injury and having to raise three kids alone made Jason Morgan more resolute in the long run.
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
SNL Mocks Iran Conflict as Pete Hegseth Calls It a ‘Situationship’ “This isn’t a war, it’s a situationship.” SNL skewers tensions with Iran in a wild press briefing sketch starring Colin Jost...
