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Over a dozen sailors had tested positive for the virus aboard the USS Kidd, which preparing to return to port.

‘The Last Full Measure’ tells the story of Airman 1st Class William H. Pitsenbarger and his daring rescue of over sixty men during the battle of Xi Cam My in Vietnam, as well as the high-level conspiracy behind the decades long denial of his Medal of Honor. Our very own Chris Cappy gives you a behind the scenes look at the events of that battle and the heroic actions Pitsenbarger took that day.

Let's be honest, deployment was pretty good preparation for the novel coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing quarantine, after all you're probably used to being kept in the dark as you're told to hurry up and wait.

Nothing to see here!

Buckle up, pandemic-stricken Americans: the U.S. military's premiere demonstration teams are on a mission to brighten your day while you're stuck at home amid the collapse of society.

The person is described as a white male, short/shaved brown hair, approximately 5'8”, last seen wearing a long sleeve black shirt with blue jeans.

'Marines are unnecessarily being put at risk of infection in order to comply with traditional grooming standards that may be optimal in an ideal world but are inessential and can be relaxed in the real world without doing any damage at all to institutional mission or national security.'

Are you one of the thousands of military families that are stuck in PCS limbo? The recent DoD stop order on military travel has affected many military families waiting to move or preparing for an upcoming PCS. Now that the stop order has been extended indefinitely, with constant reevaluation every 15 days, families may not know more than two weeks in advance when they will finally be allowed to move. If you have ever PCS’d before, you know that 15 days is not enough time to prepare for and execute a PCS move.

Right now, military families are playing a terrible game of “hurry up and wait.” In an ordinary year, this would be the peak of PCS season. Military kids would be celebrating their final weeks at one school before transferring to another one over the summer. Families would be planning summer “vacations” to visit their relatives and do sight seeing during cross-country PCS moves. But of course, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this is no ordinary year.

Clashes between Afghan forces and Taliban militants killed dozens nationwide over the past 24 hours, authorities said on Wednesday, even as the United States tries to broker peace talks between the warring sides

"This symbol has shown it has the power to inflame feelings of division. I cannot have division inside our Corps."

The crews "wanted to show support to the American medical workers who, just like military members in a time of war, are fiercely running toward the fight," Trump said.

Val Kilmer didn’t always feel the need for speed

'I like that the president warned an adversary. He’s providing a warning: If you want to go down that path, we will come, and we will come large – so don’t go down that path.'

Several hundred of them will actually rejoin

'The sky lit up and we felt the shockwave as debris from the explosion pummeled our shelter. My ears wouldn't stop ringing.'

A former Air Force flight nurse, who now works as a registered nurse at a Florida hospital recently paid his respects to a fellow veteran who died of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). That somber act of solidarity was captured in a photo that has since gone viral

Michael Dudas is charged with aggravated murder in the slaying of Charles Vonderau, who served in the Navy as a Yeoman Second Class on the USS Bangust during World War II

There is an inherent connection between warfighting and politics, one that has complicated how and why we honor our nation’s war dead since the nation's foundin