We pined for the comforts of home. We got socks for Christmas instead.
"Do they think we’re deployed, or homeless?" Care packages reveal Americans have little idea what modern soldiers need.
By Zach West, The War Horse
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America’s Dunkirk: The battle of Long Island
Wars are not won by evacuation, but George Washington’s decision to evacuate Long Island in August 1776 ultimately saved the the Continental Army.
Bucking Trump, US Senate OKs historic Yemen measure
The U.S. Senate has voted to end U.S. military aid to the Saudi-led war in Yemen, a historic and symbolic rebuke to the White House and Saudi Arabia.
By Joe Gould
Shadowy special ops sea bases are a ‘gap we know we have and we’re working on,’ Navy secretary says
While the U.S. Navy is certainly doing its part in building up the fleet, its focus on peer-level adversaries like Russia and China is at contention with its responsibility to provide off-shore staging areas for special operations forces.
By Kyle Rempfer
POW’s wedding ring was lost in German prison camp 75 years ago. Now his son will get it back.
The POW was imprisoned in the German Luftwaffe camp made famous by the movie "The Great Escape."
By Richard Marini
Some schools punish GI Bill users for VA’s delays. Congress may be about to stop that.
If it does, that’ll mean the end to any late fees or other punishments school sometimes impose on veterans whose GI Bill payments don’t come in on time — as long as those schools want to keep enrolling students using the education benefit.
By Natalie Gross
'Eternally missed’: Marines identify 5 KC-130J crew members killed in midair collision off Japanese coast
The lone survivor in the tragic midair collision has since been released from the hospital and Corps officials have not released the Marine’s name.
By Shawn Snow
World War II pilot who crashed in Himalayas accounted for
A U.S. Army Air Forces pilot from Massachusetts whose plane crashed during World War II has been accounted for.
US military returns 3 disputed bells taken from Philippines as spoils of war
American troops took the bells in 1901 after machete-wielding Filipinos killed 48 U.S. troops in one of the U.S. Army's worst single-battle losses of that era.
Deal to extend benefits for ‘blue water’ Vietnam veterans appears dead for this year
Senate officials had hoped to move a measure extending benefits to 90,000 Vietnam veterans in the waning days of Congress.
You have until midnight to enroll in or change plans for dental, vision and health
You must act before midnight today, Dec. 10, if you want to enroll in the federal employee dental and vision plans. The Tricare Retiree Dental Program ends Dec. 31, and you must take steps to continue your dental coverage.
By Karen Jowers