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Editor’s note: this story originally appeared in 2018 How you die matters. Ten years ago, on Memorial Day, I was in Fallujah, serving a year-long tour on the staff and conducting vehicle patrols between Abu Ghraib and Ramadi. That day I attended a memorial service in the field. It was just one of many held […]

Arnold Zuniga walked quickly, quietly, to the wall of the fallen and dragged his finger across the name of the childhood friend who never came back. Fox, Thomas J. Jr., USA. Zuniga is 69, 70 at year’s end. Sacramento-born and raised in a neighborhood downtown, he attended Christian Brothers High School, then Sacramento City College, […]

TAMPA — For more than half a century, Raymond Loring Chambers believed he was one of the fortunate few who survived World War II unscathed. For that, the 93-year-old Navy veteran was grateful. When his three years were up, Chambers returned to Michigan in 1946. He was 21, had seen combat, but came home with […]

The Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) and the Air Force Rescue Squadrons (RQs) will soon receive their new search and rescue (SAR) workhorse, the Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter. The HH-60W recently completed its maiden flight and will soon replace the aging HH-60G Pave Hawk. According to Lockheed Martin, the parent company of Sikorsky, […]

Samantha Pourier is the wife of Army Maj. Paul Pourier, who is preparing for a deployment to Iraq later this year. Well, it’s that time again. I’m three months pregnant, which means my idiot husband is getting ready to go to war. Sometimes he jokes that all he does is come home, get me wine-drunk […]

More than 7,500 boots on display at Fort Bragg this month served as a temporary memorial to service members from all branches who have died since 9/11. The boots — which had the service members’ photos and dates of death — were on display for Fort Bragg’s Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation’s […]

In less than three years after the National Security Agency found itself subject to an unprecedentedly catastrophic hacking episode, one of the agency’s most powerful cyber weapons is reportedly being turned against American cities with alarming frequency by the very foreign hackers it was once intended to counter. An explosive New York Times story published […]

In recent years, a series of cringe-worthy posts inevitably surface on social media that lambaste veterans and chastise civilians about the appropriate way to observe Memorial Day. Rather than enjoy a long weekend and some time with our families, we’re now expected to be sad and solemn as we remember our fallen soldiers. For some […]

U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) CH-53E Super Stallion aircraft assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) conduct flight operations during a long range raid in support of Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-19 in Yuma, Arizona, September 28, 2018. WTI is a seven-week training event hosted by MAWTS-1 which emphasizes operational integration […]

Editor’s Note: This article by Richard Sisk originally appeared on Military.com, a leading source of news for the military and veteran community. The spectacle of hundreds of thousands of motorcycles roaring their way through the streets of Washington, D.C., to Memorial Day events as part of the annual Rolling Thunder veterans tribute will be a […]