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West Bladen High School in North Carolina is coming under heat for taking two students diplomas away after graduation after they wore a cord symbolizing military enlistment at graduation. West Bladen High School makes it clear they have strict rules for the official graduation ceremony with an email and mail dictating the rules beforehand. But, […]

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was hardly the type of person one would have picked to become a war hero. Prior to the war, Chamberlain was a professor of rhetoric and theology at Bowdoin College in Maine before receiving a commission as a lieutenant colonel of the 20th Maine in 1862. But he proved to be a […]

Yesterday, June 14 was Flag Day, which isn’t really celebrated much with the exception of the state of Pennsylvania, where it is a state holiday. But it was also the 243rd birthday of the United States Army. And my oh my, things certainly have changed. Flag Day is observed on June 14, because on that […]

The Pentagon has denied that it is involved in the military offensive carried out by the Saudi-Emirati alliance against the Iranian-aligned Houthi militia in the Yemeni port city of Hudaida. Speaking on Thursday, spokesman Major Adrian Galloway said Washington “does not command, accompany, or participate in counter-Houthi operations or any hostilities other than those authorized against al-Qaeda […]

Imagine this… you are a member of the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) and while routinely checking the bags of a passenger flying to East Africa, you find millions of dollars in cash in their baggage. While it should and does set off alarms, you allow the person and the cash to go thru and continue […]

Australians are hearing about many incidents that took place in Afghanistan that their government is classifying as possible war crimes. There are currently five unlawful killings under investigation, all of them committed by members of the elite Special Operations Task Group. A spate of current war crime allegations are indeed centered on a country a […]

Americans have traditionally loved their whiskeys and bourbons and they’ve shared that love with the rest of the world. And no one loves them more than the members of our military. It is rare to travel anywhere around the globe and not be able to find that most iconic of American whiskey, Jack Daniels. But […]

While most of the agreement between President Trump and Kim Jong Un was vague as the two met for only a few hours, perhaps the most concrete outcome of Tuesday’s summit is a commitment to recover the remains of U.S. military personnel missing in action and presumed dead from the Korean War. In a joint […]

And just like that, after meeting for several hours in the morning in Singapore which was in the middle of the night as America slept, President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came to an agreement. Trump and Kim signed the agreement on Tuesday while Trump said the North Korean leader “reaffirmed his […]

Lee Mize as he was known to his friends was awarded the Medal of Honor for incredible valor in the Korean War as an enlisted man, later became an officer and served in Special Forces for three and a half tours in Vietnam before retiring in 1981. Mize was born August 28, 1931 in Albertville, […]

Sensitive data about U.S. submarine research has been hacked from an unnamed government contractor by Chinese hackers working for China’s Ministry of State Security or MSS. Included in the loss were six hundred fourteen gigabytes of data which were stolen, including submarine communications data and information on a secretive project known as Sea Dragon. The Washington […]

Politics makes for some strange bedfellows. This weekend, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani heads to China to participate in a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. Will China, insistent on pushing the United States on every turn, improve ties with the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional security bloc led by China […]