Six weeks after the Continental Army was formed in 1775, George Washington made a declaration that has shaped the military ever since: “We need chaplains.”
When the Navy ordered all alcohol off its ships in 1914, much of the fleet was in Mexico as part of the occupation of Veracruz. Enter: one raucous party.
The goal of the hearings is to pinpoint exactly what went wrong and how to avoid similar midair crashes between passenger planes and military aircraft.