Syrian Su-22 being shot down by US F/A-18E (US Navy) Our guest with Pete Mecca on Thursday night at 7:00pm, USAF Col. (Ret.) Cesar “Rico” Rodriguez, is only American pilot to shoot down three planes in the past 40 years. What happened to air-to-air combat? Why so few dogfights since

by Derek Sansone (wikipedia.org) Military history is rife with D-Days—but none like the one that took place 77 years ago on June 6, 1944. Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, began the liberation of Western Europe. The operation was an unsurpassed masterpiece of planning, as several historians have noted.

Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant man who, if he had felt free to pursue any profession he wanted, might have become the world’s leading mathematician. But he got one thing badly wrong. Toward the end of his life, he swore he remembered the Founding Fathers gathering on July 4, 1776 in Independence

by Todd DePastino Yesterday, I spent the best afternoon imaginable at The Residence in Bethel Park retirement community, where I met a wonderful 90-year-old man named Chuck Nice. I told him how apt his last name was. He said to me, “I don’t even like to argue with people, and yet

The world’s most useful tool was the brainchild of a Blue Star mother and WWII war plant worker from Illinois named Vesta Stoudt. Vesta had two sons in the Navy, and she got a job packing rifle grenades in cardboard boxes sealed with wax for waterproofing. She saw immediately how difficult the