Army Cuts Free Legal Help for Guard and Reserve Soldiers Facing Medical Discharge
You get a letter telling you that you are unfit to keep serving. It arrives with a deadline, too, sometimes less than a week, and it sets in motion a process that will decide whether you keep your career or not. Whether you get a severance check, a retirement, health care for your family, or […]
Ukraine Buries Its Unknown Soldiers
Published Jul 16, 2026, 9:46 AM EDT Ukraine buries its unknown soldiers as identification likely to go on for years.
Army Staff Sergeant Uses 40 Million Monthly Views to Help Soldiers and Veterans
It’s hard to imagine a 36-year-old active-duty U.S. Army soldier voluntarily calling himself ‘Viva La Vargas’ as a nickname. But Staff Sgt. Johnny Vargas, stationed at Fort Hood, TX, is more than a soldier. He’s a modern-day, social media Robin Hood, problem-solving, sharing good news and important information for military members and veterans on his […]
Four Fort Hood Soldiers Arrested in Child Solicitation Sting
Four soldiers assigned to Fort Hood were among 11 men arrested during a recent undercover operation targeting adults accused of attempting to solicit sex from minors online, according to Texas authorities. The arrests resulted from a three-day operation conducted in Bell County by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and several partner agencies. Investigators […]
D-Day Soldiers Missing for 81 Years Finally Identified as 16 Are Laid to Rest
Sixteen American soldiers killed on D-Day were interred in a communal grave at Omaha National Cemetery last week, on May 7, more than 81 years after a mine blast and fire aboard their landing craft kept them from ever reaching the beaches of Normandy. The soldiers had been aboard Landing Craft, Infantry (Large)-92, a Coast […]
2 JBER Soldiers Injured in Bear Attack During Training Exercise
A bear attacked and injured two soldiers who were participating in a training exercise in a remote location at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Thursday, military and state wildlife officials said Friday, April 17. The U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division soldiers were hurt in the encounter with a brown bear while participating a “land navigation training […]
The No Gun Ri Massacre: When American Soldiers Killed Hundreds of South Korean Refugees
Around noon on July 26, 1950, several hundred South Korean villagers sat on a railroad embankment near the hamlet of No Gun Ri. American soldiers had ordered them there, searched their belongings, and promised safe passage south. Then the soldiers left. Planes suddenly strafed the crowd of men, women, and children. The survivors scrambled for […]
A U-Boat Killed 763 American Soldiers on Christmas Eve in 1944. The Army Kept It Secret for 50 Years
The Belgian troopship SS Léopoldville had just slipped beneath the English Channel after being hit by a torpedo. Gerald Howard went down with the ship. The 23-year-old rifleman nearly drowned under the frigid water like hundreds of his comrades. He fought his way back to the surface. “I was on the ship until it went […]
The Forgotten Army Soldiers That Fought Alongside the Marines at Belleau Wood
Belleau Wood is where the Marine Corps became the legend we know of today. It’s the battle that gave birth to the term “Devil Dogs,” the fight that turned a small naval infantry branch into a legendary fighting force. Every Marine knows the name as each recruit is still required to learn the story. But […]
Army Puts 1,500 Soldiers on Standby for Possible Minnesota Deployment, AP Sources Say
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to be ready in case of a possible deployment to Minnesota, where federal authorities have been conducting a massive immigration enforcement operation, two defense officials said Sunday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military plans, said two infantry battalions […]