March 17, 2016 Couple buys Purple Heart at Goodwill for $4.99, sends to hero's family A husband and wife in Arizona spotted a deal when they uncovered a Purple Heart with a $4.99 price tag at a Goodwill store, but they said they had a duty to find the real hero who received the medal, local media reported Wednesday.
March 1, 2016 Former Marine, wife use experience of traumatic injury to help others Justin and Dahlia Constantine had only known each other for a few weeks when he was deployed with his Marine Corps unit to Iraq in summer of 2006.
February 29, 2016 Navy SEAL Medal of Honor recipient proved mettle in hand-to-hand combat The sixth Navy SEAL to receive the Medal of Honor proved his mettle in hand-to-hand combat in Afghanistan – or more accurately, hand-to-throat.
February 28, 2016 Why we won: Lessons from the Gulf War 25 years later Anniversaries are when we look back and see history in the light of experience. The United States’ only real failure respecting the Gulf War has been misreading its lessons.
February 1, 2016 Veteran wounded in Okinawa awarded Purple Heart 70 years later A 90-year-old New York man wounded by Japanese fighter planes in World War II has been awarded a Purple Heart — 70 years after rescuing a fellow sailor.
January 29, 2016 WWII-era female flyers are fighting for military burial honors Women Airforce Service Pilot Elaine Danforth Harmon’s last wish was to have her ashes inurned at Arlington National Cemetery, and her family started a petition that got the ball rolling.
January 28, 2016 Alyce Dixon, oldest female veteran, dead at 108 Alyce Dixon, one of the first African-American women to serve in the army and believed to be the oldest living female veteran, died Wednesday.
January 21, 2016 The 'Father of the Air Force' challenged the limits of freedom of speech and lost Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell was an Army officer at the beginning of the 1900s who campaigned for a separate Air Force that would revolutionize warfare.
January 18, 2016 These Coast Guard special operators fight terrorists and secure American ports The elite U.S. Coast Guardsmen of the specialized forces deploy around the globe to fight terrorism and prevent attacks.