Month: May 2020

KHULKHUTA, Russia (AP) — Crouching over the sun-drenched soil, Alfred Abayev picks up a charred fragment of a Soviet warplane downed in a World War II battle with advancing Nazi forces. “You can see it […]

As the number of active COVID-19 cases among its patients declined slightly this week, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced a three-part plan for resuming operations at its facilities in the coming months. The effort […]

On May 8, 1945, Robert Warren Wolfe, a GI with the 187th Engineer Battalion, had a day off from the mop-up of the broken Nazi war machine. He wrote home from Germany to his folks […]

In the immediate wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, thousands of National Guard members in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia were called to active duty in support of their state’s defense […]

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Environmental groups lost their bid to halt the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on Okinawa after a U.S. appellate panel ruled for the Pentagon in a challenge over an […]

The unemployment rate for the nation’s veterans spiked to 11.7% in April, dramatically up from 3.8% in March and 3.5% in February. But veteran unemployment remained lower than the overall 14.7% rate for the entire […]

Marine recruits training on the East Coast might have to deal with pesky sand fleas, but those on the West Coast are facing off against bigger pests: aggressive seagulls. Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego […]