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Plan to Build Houses on Contaminated Airfield Stalls as Texas City’s Fight with the Navy Continues
A plan to turn a contaminated former Navy airfield in Dallas into a neighborhood with 6,800 new homes continues to be delayed two years after official...[Read More]
Rollback of DOD anti-extremism efforts coming in 2025, experts predict
Following the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, where about 15% of the rioters were veterans or service members, the Pentagon launched an ef...[Read More]
New health care savings benefit coming to troops in 2025
Active-duty service members will have a new benefit in 2025: health care flexible spending accounts. Service members will have the option to open heal...[Read More]
Why the 1914 Christmas Truce changed nothing on the Western Front
By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would be “all over by Christmas,” then it was ...[Read More]
Cities Worldwide Hold Subdued Christmas Eve Celebrations Amid Conflicts
In Virginia, hundreds of sailors and their loved ones got an early Christmas present when the USS Cole docked at its home port in Norfolk after seven ...[Read More]
From Grinch greetings to Santa sightings, the holidays come to troops
Holiday helpers have been busy this month, as plenty of organizations and individuals have been working to make the days a bit brighter for troops and...[Read More]
From Grinch greetings to Santa sightings, the holidays come to troops
Holiday helpers have been busy this month, as plenty of organizations and individuals have been working to make the days a bit brighter for troops and...[Read More]
Santa catches a ride with troops to bring Christmas to Alaska village
YAKUTAT, Alaska — Forget the open-air sleigh overloaded with gifts and powered by flying reindeer. Santa and Mrs. Claus this week took supersized ride...[Read More]
Santa catches a ride with troops to bring Christmas to Alaska village
YAKUTAT, Alaska — Forget the open-air sleigh overloaded with gifts and powered by flying reindeer. Santa and Mrs. Claus this week took supersized ride...[Read More]
Indigenous WWI veterans get long awaited Medal of Honor review
“I’m so thankful that his blood runs in our veins,” said Tewanna Anderson-Edwards of her great uncle Otis W. Leader, a World War I Choctaw code talker...[Read More]
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What surviving an IED taught me about being a stand-up comedian
As a comedian, you never forget the first time you bomb. For me, it wasn’t on stage. I was in southern Afghanistan in May 2014 when a vehicle-borne im...
The WWI aviators who gave their lives to help the ‘Lost Battalion’
By the time the First Army of the American Expeditionary Forces launched its first major offensive at St. Mihiel on Sept. 12, 1918, the world had been...
Army IDs 3 of 4 soldiers killed in Lithuania training accident
The U.S. Army on Tuesday identified three of the four U.S. soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania last week. Sgt. Jose Duenez, Jr.,...
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CNRC Selects Their Sailor of the Year [Image 3 of 6]
250401-N-UF592-2032 MILLINGTON, Tenn. (April 1, 2025) Master Chief Jeremy Konopka, command master chief, Commander, Navy Recruiting Command, center, p...
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CNRC Selects Their Sailor of the Year [Image 1 of 6]
250401-N-UF592-2015 MILLINGTON, Tenn. (April 1, 2025) Navy Counselor 1st Class Katharina Tosh, from Normal, Illinois, right, assigned to Navy Talent A...
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CNRC Celebrates 132nd Chief Petty Officer’s Birthday [Image 3 of 6]
250401-N-UF592-1024 MILLINGTON, Tenn. (April 1, 2025) Chief Personnel Specialist Adrian Ramirez Rodriguez, from Alabaster, Ala., right and Chief Quart...
How the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal escalated into an all-out slugfest
The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American of...
Fourth missing US soldier found deceased in Lithuanian bog
The final U.S. soldier reported missing at a Lithuanian training site last week has been found deceased, the Army announced Tuesday. The soldier was t...
