Five minutes of chaos: How the Navy shot down its own jet
A long pattern of rushed training and failed equipment contributed to the embarrassing and costly error, a recently published command investigation found.
By Hope Hodge Seck
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The Navy’s continuing cruiser debacle
A lengthy and costly effort to modernize the aging cruisers has not gone as planned, the Navy admits.
Civil War artillery shell discovered at Gettysburg
An unexploded artillery shell was discovered at Gettysburg National Military Park.
‘Gettysburg’ star Jeff Daniels unearths ancestral connection to battle
The actor, who won acclaim for his role as Joshua Chamberlain in "Gettysburg," found a personal connection to the event in PBS' 'Finding Your Roots.'
By Melissa A. Winn
Stripping military bases of Confederate names stirs passions
Fort Pickett’s namesake is Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett, best remembered for a failed Confederate assault at Gettysburg that became known as Pickett’s Charge.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press