Navy hits historic recruiting numbers with more ads, tattoo approvals
Fiscal 2025 was the best recruiting year for the Navy since 2002. The head of Navy recruiting credited the feat, in part, to streamlining tattoo approvals.
By Hope Hodge Seck
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Lt. Col. George E. Hardy, youngest Tuskegee Airman, dies at 100
Hardy was the last surviving combat pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen who served overseas.
Marine veteran in body armor kills four in Florida, including infant, sheriff says
Bryan Riley is a Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
By Kelli Kennedy
NASA wants you for a one-year Mars mission simulation
NASA's CHAPEA might be the perfect gig for military members and veterans looking to be on the distant frontier of space with the Mars Mission.
Can the military boost recruitment by allowing more tattoos?
A congressional panel wants Pentagon leaders to look into the issue.
Walking stick company provides a leg up for veterans
A little trip down river launched a business that employs veterans.
By Caitlin O'Brien
Retired Marine displays giant American flag in West Virginia
“Bigger is better,” says retired Marine Corps Master Sgt. Dayton Meadows.
By Rick Steelhammer, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Army veteran convicted of plotting to bomb white supremacist California rally
Mark Steven Domingo schemed to bomb a planned April 2019 rally in Long Beach before he was arrested, prosecutors said.
Fort Benning memorializes Black soldier lynched in 1941, as post awaits renaming effort
Pvt. Felix Hall is the only known victim of extrajudicial lynching to have died on a U.S. military base.
By Davis Winkie
Saginaw Grant, Korean War Marine veteran, noted Native American character actor, dies
Born July 20, 1936, in Pawnee, Oklahoma, Grant was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served during the Korean War.
The illusion of choice: VA care more equitable
There is no miracle cure to health inequity and this complex problem requires a deeper and often painful examination of how systemic issues, individual bias, and widespread injustice affect health outcomes.
By James Albino and Lourdes Tiglao
WW II veteran celebrates 104th birthday in Virginia
Family and friends celebrate the 104th birthday of WWII veteran Retired Lt. Col. Louis Frazier Martin.
By KRISTI K. HIGGINS