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By Bob Smith with Barb Smith In August 1960, The carrier USS Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42), pulled into Livorno (“Leghorn”), Italy, one of the largest...
By Jane McKinley We had a rain last night. It thundered and I woke up sitting up. I imagine I’ll be more or less allergic...
From left to right: Michael Archer, Tom Mahoney and their senior drill instructor at Boot Camp Graduation, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California, August...
Jeff at Freedom Bridge, Seoul, South Korea, November 2006. (Jeffrey Rogers) By Jeffrey Rogers, TSgt, USAF (Ret.) Jeff Rogers served with distinction for over 20...
Author of The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton By Daria Sommers In 1969, when...
By David Nasaw Over one million Black men and women served in a racially segregated military in World War II, separate and unequal. Fighting in...
Jeremy in front of a destroyed Russian armored vehicle outside the former compound of the Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Omar, May 2002. (Jeremy D. Baker)...
Dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC,November 13, 1982. (Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund) By Diane Carlson Evans Earlier this year, Vietnam Veteran and former...
By Todd DePastino On October 13, 2025, the United States Navy marks its 250th birthday, celebrating the day the Continental Congress first authorized a few...
Odysseus (The Vatican Museums, Rome) By Todd DePastino You would think that if the ancient Greeks told a story about a triumphant soldier returning home...
Petty Officer Donn Nemchick, Naval Communications Station, Guam, 1971. (Donn Nemchick) by Donn Nemchick I completed my U.S. Navy enlistment on board the attack aircraft carrier...
Sunday, November 9th 2pm Vs Los Angeles Kings There are THREE WAYS to get TICKETS: 1. Visit www.pittsburghpenguins.com/militarytickets to complete GOVX.COM verification process AND score...
