'The Hurt Locker' and America's Fading Memory of the Iraq War On the 21st anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, it's time to reassess how "The Hurt Locker" and other movies and TV shows...
How Female Service Members Paved the Way for the Modern Women’s Rights Movement The contributions that servicewomen have made to the broader fight for women’s equality in the workplace has largely been...
NJ Town Wants Artificial Turf Fields on Land that Some Say Has Revolutionary War History Battle lines have been drawn over the plan to build an turf field on the historic Zabriskie-Schedler property in Ridgewood...
The 11 Finalists for the First-Ever American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History The American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History is like March Madness for the best books on military history.
Air Force Veteran David Harris, the First Black Pilot Hired by a Major US Airline, Has Died at 89 David E. Harris, who flew bombers for the U.S. military and broke barriers in 1964 when he became the first Black pilot hired...
JFK's Funeral Was the Only State Burial in US History to Feature a Foreign Military Unit The funeral procession was also greeted by a unit of the Irish Defence Forces, which was conducting a silent drill, standing...
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...
How the First Female Pilot to Die on Active Duty with the US Military Cultivated Her Love of Flying Women Airforce Service Pilots, created in August 1943 after WAFS and WFTD merged, flew at 126 military bases, handling 80% of...
Thieves Are Stripping Sunken World War II Shipwrecks of Their Valuable Steel In 2017, a civilian search team discovered the wreck of the USS Indianapolis in a 600-mile swathe of the Pacific Ocean. The...
Soldiers and Civilians Are Dying as Mexican Cartels Embrace a Terrifying New Weapon: Land Mines The series of blasts in the Tierra Caliente — an area along the border of Jalisco and Michoacán states — mark an alarming...
Navy's Ambitious New Effort Aims to Give Sailors Understanding of 'What Right Looks Like' In an administrative message released with little fanfare, the Navy quietly embarked on an ambitious effort that leaders hope...
Two Commanders in Marine Corps' West Coast Infantry School Fired on Same Day Col. Seth "S.W." MacCutcheon, the commander of the School of Infantry-West, and Maj. Nicholas Engle, the commander of the...
Navy Fires Commander of USS Ohio -- 3rd Submarine Skipper Relieved in 7 Months The commanding officer of the USS Ohio sub's gold crew -- Capt. Kurt Balagna -- was relieved by Rear Adm. Nicholas Tilbrook...
Marine Corps Continues Path to Retirement for Artillery System that Has Seen Heavy Use in Ukraine For more than two decades, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, has served as a key piece for U.S...