The Fighter Pilot Podcast: A Veterans Day Tribute This Veterans Day, we’re taking a walk down memory lane, revisiting some of our most memorable episodes from among the nearly...
WWII Nurses Who Dodged Bullets and Saved Lives Deserve Congressional Honor, Lawmakers Say A coalition of retired military nurses and others is pushing to award the Congressional Gold Medal to World War II nurses.
WWII Soldier, 101, Looks Back on Surviving Battle of the Bulge Jim Sharp was one of the lucky ones. And at age 101, he’s still around to talk about it. While he feels a “little weak and...
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...
World War II Soldier Returns Home After 83-Year Wait Sgt. John Pagliuso was killed in World War II in 1942. After 83 years, his remains were identified, and the soldier will...
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...
Dieppe: The Army Rangers’ First Fight Against the Germans in WWII Under Maj. William O. Darby, volunteers drawn heavily from the 34th Infantry Division trained in Scotland in demolitions...
The U.S. Destroyer Crew That Fought a German U-Boat in Hand-to-Hand Combat In an era of hypersonic missiles, stealth fighters, and nuclear subs, it’s hard to picture sailors going toe-to-toe with the...
Fort Hood Steps In After Shutdown Halts WWII Veteran’s Military Funeral Florencio Davila, a World War II veteran, died recently at age 99. His dying wish was to be buried with full military honors...
How a Former Waffen-SS Officer Became an American War Hero Buried at Arlington National Cemetery A white granite headstone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery bears a name that sounds American: Larry Allan Thorne...
Two Heroes, Two Medals of Honor: Inside Trump’s State of the Union Tribute Trump awarded two Medals of Honor during his State of the Union — one to a wounded helicopter pilot, another to a 100-year...
Amid Biggest US Military Buildup Since 2003, What Service Members and Families Need to Do Right Now Nobody knows yet whether the current buildup will result in a strike, a deal or a prolonged standoff. What you can control is...
The US Failed to Capture a MiG-15. Then a North Korean Defector Delivered One A secret US operation spent months trying to obtain a Soviet MiG-15 during the Korean War. A North Korean defector who never...
25 Years After 9/11: Former CENTCOM Commander’s Strategic Warning on What America Still Gets Wrong The only U.S. officer to lead PACOM and CENTCOM warns in his memoir that America chases short-term wins over strategy—risking...
Why You Didn’t Get the Job: Understanding How Companies Hire In today’s turbulent, unpredictable and frustrating hiring market, job-seekers are seemingly doing everything right and...
