National Hire a Veteran Day Marks 10 Years With a New Challenge for Employers
National Hire a Veteran Day enters its 10th year on July 25 with a broader message for employers: Do not just hire veterans. Put them in jobs that use what they learned in uniform. Dan Caporale, a Marine Corps veteran and founder of Hire Our Heroes, created the observance in 2017 as a national call […]
Military Retirement Expert Says Planning Should Start 2 Years Before You Leave the Uniform
Every summer, thousands of service members leave the military and begin the next chapter of their lives. June is one of the busiest retirement periods of the year, but the reason has less to do with preference and convenience than with military pay. “It is really more of an administrative timing,” said Sarah Roder, Director […]
Army Officer Sentenced to 12 Years for Secretly Giving Abortion Drug to Soldier
An Army officer who secretly gave abortion medication to a pregnant junior enlisted soldier, causing the loss of her unborn child, was sentenced to 12 years in prison following a guilty plea at a court-martial on June 24, according to Army officials. Capt. Brandon Jones-Adams, 34, pleaded guilty to multiple offenses, including intentionally killing an […]
250 US 'Wish Walls' Share Gen Z's Hopes & Fears of America's Next 250 Years
As adults across the United States prepare to formally celebrate the Fourth of July and the long journey taken to reach this point in the nation’s history, the largest youth generation in U.S. history is also speaking out about their appreciation for the country—as well as where improvements can be made to sustain the 250-year-old […]
Nearly 60 Years After Vietnam, James Capers' Medal of Honor Confirms What Marines Already Knew
When retired Marine Maj. James Capers Jr. entered the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes for his Medal of Honor ceremony, he stepped into a room reserved for the nation’s most extraordinary acts of battlefield valor. For much of America, the ceremony was an introduction to one of the Vietnam War’s greatest stories. For many Marines, particularly […]
Fort Hood Sergeant Major Sentenced to 25 Years for Child Sexual Abuse
A senior non-commissioned officer stationed at Fort Hood has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after a military jury convicted him of raping and sexually abusing two children, concluding one of the most serious criminal cases prosecuted by the Army in recent years. Sgt. Maj. Victor M. Rivera, 49, a telecommunications operations chief assigned […]
Gabbard Releases Biolab Records Years After Disinformation Accusations
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified new intelligence material that she claims reveals longstanding U.S. government funding for more than 120 biological laboratories across more than 30 countries, reopening questions about oversight of overseas pathogen research and the extent of public knowledge about those programs. The intelligence dump goes beyond the debate that […]
Ex-California Mayor Pleads Guilty as Chinese Agent, Could Get 10 Years in Prison
Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, Calif., pleaded guilty Friday to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government. Military.com previously reported how Wang, the mayor of the five-person city council in Southern California, planned to plead guilty to the felony criminal charge. She had admitted in her plea agreement that she did […]
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 […]
Marine Museum Exceeding $30M Officially Opens 25 Years After First Imagined
It started as a dream and a vision in 1999 to memorialize the spirit of Marines and Sailors serving in the Carolinas for future generations. On June 8, that dream officially becomes a reality. Starting as an idea floated at the tail end of the 20th century by a trio of Marines—Maj. Gen. Ray Smith, […]