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On March 25, 1961, Elvis Presley did a benefit concert for the Arizona Memorial which raised over $62,000 and helped to restart public funding for the war memorial that so many Americans visit every year. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States quickly rebuilt its facilities there and raised […]

U.S. President Donald Trump in yet another shakeup of his foreign policy team, on Thursday, replaced H.R. McMaster as national security adviser with John Bolton. Bolton will be the third national security adviser of the Trump White House already and is a hawk who has advocated using military force against North Korea and Iran. The […]

The Trump Administration has a new policy on the sticky subject of transgender troops that will likely restrict their service. The policy is slated to go into effect on Friday and comes after months of court challenges and talks inside the Defense Department. In August, President Trump sent Defense Secretary Jim Mattis a memo ordering […]

The Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, sometimes known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road was the last major cavalry engagement of the Civil War. The Union cavalry called it colloquially “Kilpatrick’s Shirttail Skedaddle”. It took place in what is now northeastern Fort Bragg, NC.  Confederate cavalry under the command of Major General Wade Hampton and MG […]

New Balance announced it had reached a $17.3 million agreement to make sneakers for the military. The Boston-based shoe brand will make the new 950v2 specifically for the military. “This is a great win for the preservation and growth of American manufacturing jobs,” says Rob DeMartini, President & CEO at New Balance. The brand currently […]

The teacher from California who called members of the U.S. military, “the lowest of our low” in a video captured by one of his students has been fired. As soon as the video hit social media, it triggered criticism from across the nation including the White House. The El Rancho Unified School District held a […]

Police in Austin, Texas have killed the suspect in a rash of bombings across the area in recent weeks after an armed confrontation early on Wednesday morning, police sources have revealed to the media. The Austin Police Department was working on an “officer-involved shooting” on I-35, according to a tweet from the department. Austin has […]

Ursula von der Leyen, Germany’s defense minister in the most strongly worded statement yet on the Sergei Skripal nerve agent poisoning, said that the Russians were most certainly behind the attack and tied this into the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Von der Leyen appeared Thursday on Morgen Magazin, a joint breakfast show by public […]

As soon as President Trump nominated Gina Haspel to become CIA director, the specter of the United States’ use of torture, would again be raised. The CIA used what it called at the time, “enhanced interrogation techniques” but stopped about a decade ago. While many in Congress will be looking to ask pointed questions of […]

In the first election since the peace accords between the Colombian government and the FARC, the candidates for the Colombian presidency will be a right-wing opponent to the peace deal and a leftist former mayor of Bogota. It was the first elections that the FARC were allowed to take part in. The election will take […]

The British Ministry of Defense has deployed about 180 military personnel to Salisbury in an effort to investigate the nerve gas attempted murder attack of an ex-Russian spy and his daughter. The MOD personnel are a mix of troops from the Army, Royal Marines, and RAF and are experts in chemical warfare and decontamination. Sergei […]

A staff sergeant in Ft. Bragg’s 3rd Special Forces Group was awarded the Soldier’s Medal for saving the lives of two people, pulling them from a burning vehicle in Asheboro, NC. Staff Sgt. Adams didn’t hesitate. As he watched a truck veer off the road ahead of him and tumble down a steep, tree-covered embankment, […]