Known as the “Why Wall,” the board is meant as an inspiration for the recruits who could not meet the Army's physical and ...

I joined the military when I was a 19-year-old school kid ... us young fools up to some “higher ground,” to some higher purpose. First, we went to Basic Training, where we learned to operate and react ...

For eight weeks a hearty bunch of Mercer Area Elementary students practiced singing patriotic songs for the school’s veterans ...

Macdonald sounds military, too. This week he and his assistant coaches ... “In his class, the number for engineer officers who went directly to Vietnam (after officer basic training) was seven,” Mike ...

Like most people I know who have served, I don’t think of Veterans Day as being about me. It is about the people with whom I ...

It is a shorn Downey who shows up this day at the Verdun cenotaph. Gone are six of the seven inches of his trademark white beard. In his earlier days, it was 13 inches long — and perhaps visible from ...

A Combat Chaplain’s Journey” tells the story of former Army chaplain Justin Roberts as he travels to the funeral of Father ...

Under the split option program, I attended basic training between my junior and senior years ... I never really thought about ...

While opportunities to serve around the world remain defining moments in his career, Drugo said, he was most drawn to the ...

ARLINGTON, Va. - Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chief of the National Guard Bureau Tony L. Whitehead didn’t think twice in August 2020 before ...

Ronald Bliss was determined to get the truck he was responsible for out of the line of fire when enemy mortar rounds began ...