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Vietnam veteran Larry Taylor tries to hold back tears as President Joe Biden places the Medal of Honor around his neck during a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023.
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NEW: More than 800 LGBTQ+ veterans kicked out of the military for their sexuality under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy will have their honor restored.
Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) spell out "Hi Mom!!" on the flight deck of the ship in celebration of Mother's Day 2021. (Photo by
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A 92-year-old woman has been buried in Nebraska with British military honors for a secret that she held for decades: her World War II service as a codebreaker of German intelligence communications
Robert Persichitti, a 102-year-old World War II, veteran died Friday while en route to France to take part in the remembrances planned for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
The legacy he leaves behind:
Herschel Walker boasts of his charity work helping members of the military through a program he created, called Patriot Support. But court filings and company documents show Walker did not found the program. It's also not a charity.
Richard Overton, the oldest-living veteran, was born on May 11, 1906, the same year as the first wireless radio broadcast, and a year before Oklahoma became a state. He died Thursday at the age of 112.
U.S. Army leaders rallied around a soldier featured in a recruitment video clip that Sen. Ted Cruz mocked as representative of an “emasculated military.”
The Treasury Department is ordering the nation’s banking industry to start disclosing its holdings of Russian assets, with the goal of eventually seizing those billions of dollars in assets and selling them to aid the devastated Ukrainian economy.
Sean Worsley is free. After serving almost 10 months in Alabama jails for felony possession of medical marijuana legally prescribed in his home state of Arizona, the disabled Iraqi War veteran and Purple Heart recipient walked free Monday morning.
Thomas Patrick Payne is “one of the bravest men anywhere in the world,” the president told an audience in the East Room of the White House, which was filled with senior Pentagon officials and the soldier’s family.
Donald Stratton, a sailor severely burned while aboard the doomed USS Arizona during the Japanese surprise attack Dec. 7, 1941, died Saturday. He was 97.
His passing leaves only two living survivors of the battleship, Lou Conter and Ken Potts.
BREAKING | Medal of Honor recipient Bennie Adkins, who was given the nation’s highest military honor for heroically fighting off enemies and saving wounded soldiers in Vietnam, died April 17 from complications caused by the coronavirus.
New rules state that U.S. soldiers cannot post, like or share any extremist or gang-affiliated content on social media or participate in other extremist activity even when they are off duty.
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Today, John L. Canley will receive the Medal of Honor. In the Battle of Hue during the Vietnam War, he scaled a concrete wall unprotected and in full view of enemy fighters to move wounded troops to safety. Then he did it again: Photo: Erik Estrada
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Pfc. Kang Young Hyun, 28, is a member of DAY6, a pop rock band represented by JYP Entertainment, a South Korean record label that debuted K-pop groups like Wonder Girls.
Pvt. Walter Beagles arrived at Camp Jackson, South Carolina, in 1918, an African American draftee in a segregated Army. More than 100 years later, his great-grandson now serves as the base's 51st commanding general.
BREAKING NEWS: An Air Force C-17 containing the remains of fallen U.S. servicemembers has departed Wonsan, North Korea, the White House said in a statement Thursday.
Roman Sabal first applied to become a U.S. citizen in 1995 after serving for six years as a Marine and then several more years in the Army Reserves. He was denied entry to the U.S. on Monday for his scheduled citizenship hearing.
Former defense secretary and retired Marine general Jim Mattis has appeared in a pandemic public service announcement urging listeners in his hometown to wear face coverings to help prevent coronavirus.
A Navy officer's wife is stuck in professional limbo. Two military children are being prevented from enrolling in a new school. Two Air Force officers are living in temporary housing and paying their own storage costs.
All thanks to Tuberville's block:
Ramon Regalado, who survived the infamous 1942 Bataan Death March and symbolized the thousands of unheralded Filipinos who fought alongside American forces during World War II, has died. He was 100.
A U.S. Army officer was recognized for rescuing three people from a riptide at a popular Okinawa dive spot in an episode that apparently killed a well-known Japanese manga artist.
President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to remove most of the its about 700 troops in Somalia working to assist the East African nation’s military with its long battle against al-Shabab terrorists.
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Charlotte Maxwell-Jones, an American who founded Kabul Small Animal Rescue in 2018, was recently told by the Taliban to leave Afghanistan. But she doesn’t intend to go until she’s secured the departure of about 125 people and as many as 250 animals.
Babe, one of the horses of the Caisson Platoon, is set to retire after 19 years. She honored America's fallen by performing more than 7,600 funerals & will join the family of a Vietnam veteran she escorted to his final resting place.
The Secret Service endured a decade of controversy from a prostitution scandal and White House security missteps during the Obama years to allegations of politicization under Trump. Recent testimony has cast doubt on the credibility of the agency.
Tuskegee Airman John 'Captain Jack' Lyle died Saturday at his home on Chicago's South Side, his wife, Eunice, said Monday. She added that Lyle had been battling prostate cancer.
Bruce Springsteen and former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart will return to Lincoln Center to once again help headline the Stand Up for Heroes fundraiser supporting wounded, ill and injured veterans and their families.
The Army’s 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment continues to stand guard over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, even though
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is closed because of the coronavirus lockdown.
U.S. Air Force Col. Roy A. Knight Jr., who was declared missing in action since his plane was shot down over Laos in 1967, will be laid to rest in his native Texas.
Up to 12,000 Air Force personnel have rejected orders to get fully vaccinated against the coronavirus despite a Pentagon mandate and officials say it is too late for them to do so by Tuesday's deadline.
Roughly 1,000 strangers showed up to the funeral of a WWII veteran who had no family left living to mourn him. They did so "to show the world that the veterans of our country matter, yesterday, today and tomorrow.”
A welcoming committee for American World War II veterans, including Don Graves, was arranged by citizens of the Normandy commune of Houlgate. It included men dressed in WWII U.S. uniforms, some women in 1940s fashion and schoolchildren. The commune also provided the vets, who
Army veteran Frank Manchel died on an Honor Flight returning to San Diego from Washington. He had spent the weekend being honored for his World War II service
Peter Decareau left school in 1942 to serve in WWII. He was 17 years old and 120 pounds. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he knew he wanted to join. And he didn't want to wait. On Thursday, he finally received his high school diploma.
In a recent survey, 81% of Americans said the U.S. should maintain or increase its commitment to NATO. That is the highest level of support recorded since the Chicago Council began such polling in 1974.
Joshua Watson had just graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and looked forward to a career as a pilot. On Saturday, he was being hailed a hero, as his family recounted how he led first responders to an active shooter after being shot multiple times.
Lt. Col. Patrick Schreiber, a retired Kansas Army officer, has lost his fight in federal court over his adopted daughter’s citizenship status, meaning she may have to return to her native South Korea.
In 1971, shortly after his 21st birthday, Pfc. Lamar Williams was killed by enemy fire in Vietnam. After being forced to bury Williams in a Black-only cemetery, his family celebrated Wednesday as Williams was re-interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
The last veteran of World War II to serve as president, George H.W. Bush was a consummate public servant and a statesman who helped guide the nation and the world out of a four-decade Cold War that had carried the threat of nuclear annihilation.
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was at the Korean War Memorial to take part in a flag presentation to the Korean War Veterans Memorial Foundation. The flag was among those that draped 55 cases that carried the remains of American soldiers back to American soil.
The last Mohawk World War II Code Talker has died. Louis Levi Oakes, an enrolled member of the Saint Regis Mohawk tribe, died Tuesday at the age of 94.
Lawmakers have until Friday to close a nearly $3 billion budget gap at the Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure millions of veterans and their survivors receive their monthly benefits on time in October.
Navy veteran Tammie Jo Shults, who was one of the first female fighter pilots in the military, was at the controls of the Dallas-bound Flight 1380 when it made an emergency landing Tuesday.
The Navajo Nation has announced that World War II-era Navajo Code Talker William Tully Brown has died at age 96. He's the third Navajo Code Talker to die since May 10.
“I was just kind of fed up with the way things were going politically, the games people are playing,” said Brian Kolfage, an Air Force veteran who lost his legs and right arm during his second deployment in Iraq in 2004.
Officials from Arlington National Cemetery and the military hoped clear rules would avoid a damaging public spat with Donald Trump. Instead, they got sucked into exactly the kind of crisis they were hoping to avoid.
BREAKING NEWS | Security forces at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo have directed people to evacuate several buildings, including wing headquarters, the exchange and the Enlisted Club.
Putin expressed gratitude during the call for information provided by the CIA that allowed Russia's domestic security agency to track down and arrest a group of suspects that was planning to bomb Kazan Cathedral and other crowded sites, the Kremlin said.
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is slamming a fellow Republican in the Senate for waging an unprecedented attempt to change Pentagon abortion policy by holding up hundreds of military nominations and promotions.
A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested in Hawaii on charges that he repeatedly struck a police officer with a flagpole during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol more than three years ago:
Brian Sicknick was the sixth U.S. Capitol Police officer to die in the line of duty since 1952, and the fourth to be a victim of an attack on the Capitol grounds.
Donald Trump has so far declined to visit servicemembers deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq, saying he does not want to associate himself with wars he views as failures, according to current and former advisers.
The new law, expected to be passed on May 28, would bypass the city's legislature and allow the Hong Kong government to set up mainland agencies in the city.
Richard Overton, who is 112 years old and is the both the country's oldest World War II veteran and oldest living man, has been hospitalized with pneumonia for the second time this year.
At Sgt. 1st Class Will Lindsay's funeral, generals, an admiral and more than 50 of his comrades from Fort Carson’s 10th Special Forces Group stood at attention while his coffin was moved from a charter plane to a hearse at Peterson Air Force Base.
Among Texas families who indicated they were experiencing a lack of food, 46.6% were active duty families, 28.4% were veteran families and 14.8% were military retiree families. Most respondents were from the Army.
Soldiers from the two Koreas exchanged cigarettes and chatted as they inspected the dismantlement or disarmament of 22 guard posts — 11 from each country — inside the Demilitarized Zone.
Today's front page signals the end of the 20-year Western experiment to remake
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On Sunday, the Taliban swept into Kabul after the government collapsed and the country's embattled president joined an exodus of his fellow citizens and foreigners.
When he publicly directed the Pentagon in June 2018 to begin working toward a Space Force, President Donald Trump spoke of the military space mission as part of a broader vision.
Days before Joe Biden becomes president, incoming first lady Jill Biden took a step Thursday toward fulfilling a promise to revive a program for military families that she and former first lady Michelle Obama once led.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the partial withdrawal shortly before Trump's State of the Union address. Her Republican predecessor deployed National Guard troops to the border in April 2018, and 118 remained there before Tuesday's reversal.
Capt. Jonathan Turnbull, 32, a native of Gaylord, Mich., remains in serious condition after being wounded by a bombing in Syria that took the life of four Americans.
The oldest of the 9 service members dead or still missing after an assault amphibious vehicle sank off the coast of California last week was a 23-year-old — Marine Corps Cpl. Wesley Rodd, of Harris, Texas, who recently became a father.
An American soldier who helped rescue about 70 hostages set to be executed by Islamic State militants in Iraq has been approved to receive the Medal of Honor for actions during a daring 2015 raid.