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...
A Promising Air Force Officer Took a Stand Against Racism. Now, His Career Is in Political Jeopardy. Col. Ben Jonsson's promotion is now in jeopardy as he becomes the latest casualty of Republicans' war on "wokeness" in the...
Buffalo Soldiers Receive New VA Headstones Following Army Decision to Overturn Convictions More than 100 years after they were convicted of mutiny and murder and hanged for the 1917 Houston Riot, 17 Black soldiers...
Native American, Alaska Native Veterans Saved $2.5 Million in Medical Costs Under New VA Waiver Program The exemption covers copays for VA medical appointments, urgent care visits and prescriptions.
Unequal Treatment of Black, Minority Veterans Triggers New VA Plan to Weed Out Disparities The move aligns with the White House's effort to ensure that all eligible Americans have access to federal services and...
Supreme Court Allows West Point to Continue Using Race as a Factor in Admissions, for Now The justices on Friday rejected an emergency appeal seeking to force a change in the admissions process at West Point.
The Navy's Naming of its Newest Destroyer Is the Latest Attempt to Honor a Forgotten Black WWII Hero In a daring feat of strength and endurance following an enemy attack that sank the USS Gregory on Sept. 5, 1942, Charles...
Survey at Florida Air Force Base Discovers 121 Potential Graves Related to Segregation-Era Black Cemetery MacDill Air Force Base confirmed in a statement late last week that it had located the unmarked Port Tampa Cemetery, which...
Army Sees Sharp Decline in White Recruits The shift in demographics for incoming recruits would be irrelevant to war planners, except it coincides with an overall...
Larry Doby, World War II Navy Veteran Who Helped Integrate Baseball, Awarded Congressional Gold Medal At the ceremony in the U.S. Capitol on for the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal, House Speaker Mike Johnson said...
Army Unveils Occupational Fields that Need More Soldiers – and Bonuses to Get Them Filled Referred to as "precision retention," the program highlights overcrowded occupational specialties, such as cavalry scouts and...
'Band of Brothers' Actors Are Training to Parachute into Normandy for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day With the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy approaching in June, some of the actors decided they would...
Army 4-Star Who Pressured Panel to Help Career of Unfit Officer Suspended, Facing Pentagon Investigation The case of Gen. Charles Hamilton, who oversees Army Materiel Command, was also referred by the Army to the Defense...
The State Department’s New Armored Vehicle Is on Another Level As if you needed another reason to apply for embassy duty.
The Hardest Part of Special Operations Selection Programs – and How to Handle It Contrary to what one might expect, the most arduous part of a U.S. special operations selection program is not the actual...