One firefighter killed in Idaho attack was National Guard veteran
Battalion Chief Frank Harwood, 42, with Kootenai County Fire and Rescue, was a veteran of the Army National Guard.
By Lindsey Wasson and Manuel Valdes, The Associated Press
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Pentagon leaders name new senior enlisted adviser
Navy Master Chief David Isom will replace Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Troy Black as the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Kentucky cultural center recognizes African Americans who served in the military
“Black History in the Barrens: Those Who Served in the Military” is an exhibit that is currently on display in the Christeen Snavely Art Gallery at the South Central Kentucky Cultural Center off Water Street.
By Gina Kinslow, Glasgow (Kentucky) Daily Times via AP
What we can learn from the Tuskegee Airmen
It was a vastly different time when the Tuskegee Airmen fought.
By American Grit
How the ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ helped turn the tide in Italy during World War II
Soldiers with the 92nd Infantry Division served with distinction shortly after the military overturned a ban on black soldiers serving in combat.
By Robert Hodges, Jr.
Charles Young: The Army’s first black colonel
The officer's Army career began with solitude and discrimination at West Point.
By David P. Colley
Meet the first Afghan Special Forces instructor pilot trained in-country
One of Afghanistan’s elite pilots is now not only flying the helicopters he grew up watching on television, but he's teaching others to fly them, too.
By Kyle Rempfer
This ex-slave pretended to be a man and served in the Army
Cathay Williams was the only documented female buffalo soldier. From 1866 to 1868, an uneducated, illiterate former slave managed to deceive her fellow soldiers, officers and post medical personnel.
By Kay Grant
‘General Tubman’: Female abolitionist was also a secret military weapon
Harriet Tubman helped plan a South Carolina river raid that freed hundreds of slaves.
By Catherine Clinton
Interview: First black Army secretary on desegregation, the draft, and discrimination
Clifford Alexander Jr. was nominated by President Carter to lead the Army as it shaped itself into a post-Vietnam, all-volunteer force.
By Military History Magazine
William H. Carney: The first black soldier to earn the Medal of Honor
From slave to sergeant, a Civil War hero's story.
By Thomas M. Hammond
Frederick Douglass’ unannounced visit to Lincoln’s White House ... and the friendship it created
Frederick Douglass didn’t agree with everything President Abraham Lincoln said when they first met, but he left with a new fondness for Lincoln after they spoke about justice and equality for black soldiers.
By Peter Carlson