Indian journalists Soma Maity and Ranjit Mahato had been at the protest for a matter of minutes before they were attacked by a mob on January 16. Maity said she was grabbed and lifted by two men, who pulled her hair, restrained her legs, and tore at her clothes while others touched her body. She […]
Many heroic actions took place during the Spanish-American War in the late 19th century. One such action was the Battle of Tayabacoa, Cuba, a special operation effort to land supplies and reinforcements, which resulted in four Buffalo Soldiers receiving the Medal of Honor.
As America celebrates 250 years of independence, here is a look back at the price the Revolutionary War service members paid for freedom.
When injured active-duty service members need to get from the battlefield to critical medical care back home in the U.S., the medical evacuation department for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Md., plays a vital role.
In a heroic stand during a 1899 ambush in the Second Samoan Civil War, three Marines and one sailor earned the Medal of Honor for their bravery and self-sacrifice while protecting their retreating comrades.
American forces combined unconventional hit-and-run tactics with traditional frontal assaults and strategic sieges to defeat the British on land and at sea.
For Space Force Tech. Sgt. Alaowei W. Monibidor, the call to deploy came with little warning — in two weeks, he would leave his home for a six-month tour in a location he could not be told over the phone. Yet his answer was an immediate “yes.”
Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler was twice awarded the Medal of Honor, the first for distinguished conduct during the 1914 occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, and the second for his 1915 actions in Haiti.
Sharmelí Bustíos Patiño was only 14 when her father, 38-year-old Peruvian journalist Hugo Bustíos Saavedra, was killed on November 24, 1988, while covering the war between the Peruvian army and leftist Shining Path guerrillas in a violent ambush near the town of Huanta. After nearly four decades of fighting to find her father’s killer, Sharmelí found justice in […]
Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” inspired colonists to fight for independence and coined the name “United States of America.”
