While President Biden's uncles weren't among the thousands who came ashore on D-Day, they were in the Army and supported the war in other ways. In World War II, millions of women rolled up their sleeves and worked in defense-industry factories, freeing up and equipping men for combat. 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%. 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. The Marine Corps has launched a pilot program that will allow qualified recruits to enter the Corps with a rank as high as gunnery sergeant. The lack of communication means service members could violate rules they don’t know exist and portray the DOD as politically partisan. Few witnesses remain who remember the storied Allied assault and history’s biggest amphibious invasion. Vets, many of them centenarians and likely returning for one last time, pilgrimaged to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landings on June 6, 1944. An Army captain earlier this year became the first soldier to be granted approval to display the traditional ink. Waverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat unit to take part in D-Day, was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Load More