Month: May 2020

A bugle playing taps, gun salutes and the presentation of a folded American flag to a mourning family are hallmarks of the military funerals conducted daily for veterans at San Diego’s two national cemeteries — […]

Army Ranger Chaplain Maj. Jon Knoedler walks across a narrow beam 35 feet above Victory Pond at Fort Benning, Georgia, to offer perspective to soldiers wrestling with the uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic. During one […]

Each of their stories was different, but common strains repeat: Of humility and generosity; of finding joy in the unpretentious; of a sharp mind disappearing into fog or a hale body betrayed by age. And, […]

Bales of cocaine are shown aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Active (WMEC-618) following an interdiction in early May, 2020, in the international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean (U.S. Coast Guard) SAN DIEGO — More […]

It’s an image synonymous with the U.S. Air Force: a fighter jet streaking across the sky, tipping its wings and igniting its afterburner to boost thrust as it climbs. And while jets have been the […]

An Alaska school board’s decision to remove four acclaimed novels and one short story collection deemed too “controversial” from high school English reading lists has been reversed. The 6-1 vote Wednesday by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough […]

The head of U.S. Space Command says there is value in going back to the drawing board to look for a new base to host the Defense Department’s newest combatant command. “If you look at […]