Navy construction personnel taking part in Exercise Baltic Operations 26 in Latvia built a camp named in honor of a Navy aircraft lost over the Baltic Sea during the Cold War in 1950.
Over more than two decades, Air Force Maj. Kerry Baker designed hundreds of unit patches, nose art pieces and official heraldry that capture the heritage, morale and visual identity of the B-52 Stratofortress aviation community.
Army 2nd Lt. Walter D. Ehlers earned the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during World War II and became the last surviving D-Day recipient of the award.
When Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama took office in January 2025, pledging to restore “an era of true media freedom,” journalists had reason to hope that attacks on the press would be taken more seriously than before. But during Mahama’s tenure, CPJ has documented eight separate incidents in which at least 17 journalists were attacked […]
Delegates to the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776. Three of the 56 delegates who signed the formal break from Britain represented Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall and George Walton.
Naval Education and Training Command recently honored Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Crystal Avila, a damage controlman and instructor assigned to Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill., as the Junior Instructor of the Year.
Airmen assigned to the 23rd Maintenance Squadron transformed an A-10C Thunderbolt II at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., by painting the Flying Tiger emblem on the jet, a tribute to Army Air Corps Brig. Gen. David Lee “Tex” Hill and the legendary World War II group.
Army Pfc. Charles N. DeGlopper was a World War II soldier who bravely sacrificed his life in France to save his platoon, earning the Medal of Honor.
Fourteen years after an explosion in an Afghan village took both of his legs and nearly his life, a former 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper is preparing to jump again, this time in Normandy, France.
Revolutionary War gunsmiths handcrafted unique, noninterchangeable firearms from scratch, keeping patriot forces armed despite frequent battlefield weapon failures.
