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100 years ago Friday, the first submariner received the Medal of Honor
Heroism while his boat sank earned Torpedoman’s Mate 2nd Class Henry Breault the military's highest decoration in 1924.
By Sarah Sicard
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US mulls deploying Marine security team to Haiti amid gang crisis
In 2010, after an earthquake struck Haiti, fleet antiterrorism security team Marines were sent to assist the Marine guards at the embassy there.
What if the Navy and Marine Corps had bypassed Iwo Jima?
Adm. Ernest King dismissed Iwo Jima as “a sink hole in the hands of whoever held it.”
By Mark Grimsley, World War II Magazine
The Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere
Haiti's Black Panther was King Henry I.
By Marlene Daut, University of Virginia
Heroes, sacrifices and making a difference across generations
Terrorists do not have the capability to attack the U.S. homeland today due to the efforts of our African partners, international community, the U.S., and service members like Spc. Henry Mayfield, says the author of this commentary.
By Col. Chris Karns
Minivan accident kills beloved Navy doctor
He started his Navy career as a Seabee.
Buyer now has keys to historic Lake Superior lighthouse
Five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and now he's the lord of a pretty cool lakeside manor.
By Dan Kraker, Minnesota Public Radio News
Defense intel official charged with leaking secrets to journalists
A Defense Intelligence Agency official was arrested Wednesday and charged with leaking classified intelligence information to two journalists, including a reporter he was dating, the Justice Department said.
Devil Dog reservists summon the power of ‘oorah’ in wonky trailer for prison break thriller, ‘Semper Fi’
A prison sentence may actually be preferable to seeing this film.
By Jon Simkins
Hail, Lafayette!
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, had returned to America to ‘see for himself the fruit borne on the tree of liberty.’
By Ronald H. Bailey, HistoryNet.com
Before there was our Navy, a forest grew
And Virginia's 'Founding Forest' is coming back, one fire at a time.
By Peter Coutu, The Virginian-Pilot