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How Gustav the pigeon broke the first news of the D-Day landings
Gustav flew for five hours and 16 minutes across a distance of 150 miles to deliver the news, amid darkened skies and a headwind of about 50 mph.
Nurses rally in DC, call for immediate hiring of VA medical staff
After record hiring in 2023, official say the VHA's workforce is at its highest point in history.
The officer who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol
One NCO recalled seeing Roosevelt on the beach 'with a cane in one hand, a map in the other, walking around as if he was looking over some real estate.'
‘What they left behind’: Ernie Pyle recalls the carnage of Omaha Beach
The story of D-Day as told by what one war correspondent saw left on the beaches.
A personal account of a paratrooper who jumped into Normandy on D-Day
Lt. Col. Gerhard Bolland, an 82nd Airborne Division officer, described what it was really like to parachute during the invasion of Normandy.
‘We failed’: How an F-16 flight on 9/11 shaped National Guard’s No. 2
A Q&A with Lt. Gen. Marc Sasseville, who retired at the end of May as the vice chief of the National Guard.
Actor Idris Elba discusses suppressed stories of D-Day’s Black vets
Actor Idris Elba and director Shianne Brown spoke to Military Times to discuss their latest collaboration, "Erased: WWII Heroes Of Color."
Enlisted pay raise, abortion ban included in panel’s defense budget
The annual defense appropriations bill would give all troops a 4.5% pay raise in 2025, with some enlisted troops getting a boost of nearly 20%.
US B-1 flies precision bomb drill as tensions simmer with North Korea
The U.S. flew a B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday for its first precision-guided bombing drill with South Korea in seven years.
