More military children will soon have access to DOD-operated schools
A new program ends a blanket requirement that families must live on base in order for their children to attend DOD schools.
By Karen Jowers
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NORAD Santa tracker started in the Cold War. Now it’s a holiday staple
NORAD typically scans the heavens for potential threats. But on Christmas Eve, volunteers are fielding questions like, “When is Santa coming?"
Black D-Day combat medic’s long-denied medal laid on Omaha Beach
U.S. First Army soldiers held a ceremony in honor of Waverly Woodson Jr. on the beach where he came ashore and was wounded.
‘Heaven and earth’: Biden speech revives legend of Pointe du Hoc
The president's speech urged Americans to look after democracy, 40 years after Ronald Reagan gave a similar address.
D-Day anniversary marked by dwindling number of veterans
Now bent with age, a dwindling number of WWII veterans joined a new generation of leaders on the shores where they landed 80 years ago.
How Gustav the pigeon broke the first news of the D-Day landings
Gustav flew for five hours and 16 minutes across a distance of 150 miles to deliver the news, amid darkened skies and a headwind of about 50 mph.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher
The officer who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol
One NCO recalled seeing Roosevelt on the beach 'with a cane in one hand, a map in the other, walking around as if he was looking over some real estate.'
US senator claims Putin ‘doesn’t want Ukraine’
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Senate Committee on Armed Services member, claimed on a political talk show that Vladimir Putin 'doesn’t want Ukraine.'
‘What they left behind’: Ernie Pyle recalls the carnage of Omaha Beach
The story of D-Day as told by what one war correspondent saw left on the beaches.
By Ernie Pyle
A personal account of a paratrooper who jumped into Normandy on D-Day
Lt. Col. Gerhard Bolland, an 82nd Airborne Division officer, described what it was really like to parachute during the invasion of Normandy.
By Gerhard L. Bolland