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The time is right to honor the Vietnam War’s most secret warriors
We need to finally honor the elite U.S Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group, or MACV-SOG, with a Congressional Gold Medal.
By Col. Paris Davis
Hiker crawls for hours with broken ankle to reach 911 service
His call brought a county search and rescue team and then the Coast Guard.
By Carl Prine
Seventy-five years later, the Netherlands honors the ‘Black Liberators’ who helped end the Nazi occupation
In 1944, Allied forces began liberating the Netherlands from Nazi occupation. Among these soldiers were black GIs whose role in the liberation had largely been overlooked in historical accounts. Now, the Black Liberators Project seeks to highlight the service and sacrifice of these soldiers, including the 172 buried in Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten.
By Dylan Gresik
More retirees, family members to be booted from military hospitals under Pentagon reform plans
With changes coming to military medical treatment facilities, more non-uniformed beneficiaries can expect to be shed to the Tricare networks.
By Patricia Kime
Air Force Academy airfield named in honor of Tuskegee Airmen commander who later became a general
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the legendary Tuskegee Airman and World War II pilot, will be celebrated today as the Air Force Academy names its airfield after the ground-breaking aviator.
By Kent Miller
Kurds may be wiped out before Turkey sanctions happen, senators worry
Congress’ most concrete response to the unfolding Syrian crisis includes sanctions on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
By Joe Gould
Fearless Farragut!
The Union admiral followed a key tenet: Judge the risk by the prize, and risk all if necessary.
By Lawrence Lee Hewitt, HistoryNet
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
Wildlife now roam where US once forged its deadliest weapons
From a tiny Pacific island to a leafy Indiana forest, a handful of sites where the United States manufactured and tested some of the most lethal weapons known to humankind are now peaceful havens for wildlife.
The Navy’s Ex Ex and a legacy of military naturalists
On Aug. 18, 1838, the Exploring Expedition led by Navy Lt. Charles Wilkes embarked on a world cruise of scientific discovery. He fit well into a class of armed scientists, military naturalists who rose to prominence in the 18th and 19th centuries.
By Richard Conniff, HistoryNet