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Editor’s note: This report contains discussion of suicide. Troops, veterans and family members experiencing suicidal thoughts can call the 24-hour Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 and dial 1, text 838255 or visit VeteransCrisisLine.net. Diagnoses of mental health disorders among active-duty service members increased by nearly 40% over the last five years, according to a new Defense Health Agency...[Read More]

Many people are forced to watch the Army-Navy Game, either because it’s the only game on that particular Saturday or because it’s part of some mandatory funday in a unit ruled by an academy alum.

If the Army-Navy Game itself doesn’t thrill you, you can still stay tuned for a lot of fun and martial tradition that surrounds it, from long before kickoff starts until a winner is crowned.

NAPLES, IT., December 27, 2024 — From NATO’s Foundation to Today’s Challenges: Seventy-five years ago, on April 4, 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded, striving for peace and security through collective defense.

The 1944 Army-Navy Game pitted the top two ranked teams in college football that season and raised more than $58 million for the war effort.

In a deeply partisan Congress, one group of lawmakers with a shared background is working in a bipartisan way to try to pass important legislation.

Funeral services honoring former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, will be held in Georgia and Washington, D.C., beginning Saturday, Jan. 4, and concluding Thursday, Jan. 9.

USS John Basilone is commissioned in New York.

First organized as a “racial experiment,” a contingent of Black Americans began training to be aviators at Tuskegee, Alabama, during World War II. They would prove their worth — and then some — over the skies of North Africa and central Europe as escort fighter pilots in the Fifteenth Air Force. Among their many vaunted exploits, Joseph D. Elsberry, Clarence D. Lester, Lee A. Archer Jr. and Harry ...[Read More]

First organized as a “racial experiment,” a contingent of Black Americans began training to be aviators at Tuskegee, Alabama, during World War II. They would prove their worth — and then some — over the skies of North Africa and central Europe as escort fighter pilots in the Fifteenth Air Force. Among their many vaunted exploits, Joseph D. Elsberry, Clarence D. Lester, Lee A. Archer Jr. and Harry ...[Read More]

The Associated Press obtained audio of what military officials say is a broadcast from a Russian spy ship that suffered a fire and drifted uncontrolled off Syria’s coast.