Netflix Brings President James Garfield’s Forgotten Assassination to Life Netflix’s Death by Lightning revisits the life, legacy, and tragic assassination of President James Garfield — America’s...
The Last American Killed in WWI Charged a German Machine Gun Seconds Before the Armistice Took Effect Gen. John Pershing would officially designate Gunther as the last American soldier killed in World War I. He was one of...
The Commandant Behind Marine Corps Birthday Traditions When Major General John A. Lejeune became Commandant in 1920, he inherited a Marine Corps that had proven itself at Belleau...
Command Crisis on Saipan: The Only Time a Marine General Ever Fired an Army General Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Holland M. “Howlin' Mad” Smith—commanding the V Amphibious Corps—had just done something unprecedented...
Preserving Victory: Lessons from the Monuments Men for Today’s Military During World War II, a small Allied unit known as the Monuments Men risked their lives to protect Europe’s art, monuments...
The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War: Green Berets and Seabees Fight for Survival at Dong Xoai Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling...
How Ken Burns’ Revolutionary War Series Reveals the War Within Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on...
How 12 Chinese Divisions Failed to Destroy the 1st Marine Division at Chosin Reservoir With UN troops getting dangerously close to the Yalu River, Mao Zedong's orders were simple: destroy the 1st Marine Division...
The U.S. Marine Who Forced Nazi Officers to Toast FDR at Gunpoint — and Became the Most Decorated OSS Operative Most Marines had never seen combat when Peter Ortiz joined the Corps in June 1942. However, he had already survived five...
AI Studio’s New Tech Could Transform How Military History Is Told If Daniel Clarke’s new studio, Unfeatured Films, gets its way, the future of documentary filmmaking, and how we engage with...
Which Americans Will Be Automatically Registered for Military Draft, and When? Last year's defense bill passed by Congress paved the way for the new automatic registration process.
A VA Clinic Gave Veterans GLP-1s for Weight Loss. A Year Later, Everything Improved Researchers tracked 201 veterans prescribed semaglutide, the drug sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy. After one...
WWII Veteran Who Lied About His Age to Serve Takes Honor Flight Joining the military at 16 to serve in World War II to service in Korea and Vietnam, humble Al Duran has lived quite a life.
Disabled Veterans Charged Up to $20K to File VA Benefits Claims: Lawsuit The company being sued told Military.com it doesn't charge for VA claims. Plaintiffs disagree, citing purported deceptive...
3 Big Military PCS Changes Are Coming at Once. Here’s What to Know Before 2026 Peak Season In 2026, three major changes are affecting military household goods moves: a new permanent agency to run the system, the end...
