Marines Fly Flags at Half-Mast After Revered Former Commandant Al Gray Dies at 95 Gen. Al Gray was lauded by Marines, current and former, for his no-nonsense, salt-of-the earth approach to leading the...
Veterans, Advocates Want Blood Cancers Added to PACT Act List of Burn Pit-Related Conditions The Department of Veterans Affairs is studying whether acute and chronic leukemias and multiple myeloma should be considered...
Barbie and Ken Went to War Long Before the 'Barbie' Movie Before they left Barbieland in search of the real world, Mattel's signature Barbie and Ken dolls left home in search of a...
Got Gulf War Illness? These Researchers Want to Hear from You and Other Vets The study aims to understand symptoms that have plagued up to 210,000 veterans of the 1990-91 war in Iraq and Kuwait.
21 Facts About the First Gulf War Remember The First Gulf War? Persian Gulf War? Desert Storm and/or Desert Shield? They’re all the same war.
'Lot of Heartache' Raising Money, But Ground Finally Broken for Desert Storm Memorial The National Desert Storm War Memorial Association has faced headwinds in raising funds and working through the complicated...
A Sailor Survived Getting Sucked into a Jet Engine During Operation Desert Storm While preparing an A-6E Intruder for takeoff at night, 21-year-old flight deck crewman John Bridges found himself pulled into...
Researchers Think They've Found the Cause of Gulf War Illness A Texas researcher who has investigated Gulf War illnesses has found evidence that some service members have a weak form of a...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Officers with Higher Rank Get Better Care than Those with Lower Ranks at Military Hospitals, Study Finds A look at 1.5 million emergency room visits in the military health system shows that, in addition to racial bias, disparities...
Another Dead End for Airborne Lasers: Air Force Scraps Effort to Mount Directed-Energy Weapon on Fighter Jet The Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator, or SHiELD, was envisioned as a laser weapon mounted on fighter jets such as...
'He Was Great Before He Came to Us': Air Force Leaders Speak at Funeral of Florida Airman Killed by Police The military connection and the attendance and participation by Air Force officials made the service for Roger Fortson an...
Military Ospreys Can't Fly More Than 30 Minutes from Landing Airfield Months After Grounding Lifted Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy V-22 Ospreys were all given the green light to fly again in early March and have been slowly...