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"Five young Marines from Camp Pendleton died in preventable 'rollover' accidents in the last year. How many more of our military will die, needlessly?"

"We're going to do the best we can to make sure we are not forgetting our country's heroes."

“It’s just good to come out here and put flags out for the people that represented our country."

"One problem is we can call this or that number or call the chaplain, without realizing the person in that dark space doesn’t want help. We’ve got to give them a reason to call that number."

Some leave requests are works of art. This is one of them

Petty Officer 1st Class Mike Sency is the victim of a long-running series of scams that steal photos of U.S. service members and use them to swindle money out of people online

Tanks for the laughs

An LAPD helicopter, 50 first responder vehicles and 1,500 private cars turned up to honor Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo, who was killed March 8 while fighting ISIS in Iraq.

Former Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin says that the department isn't doing enough to protect its healthcare workers — and that could have dire consequences as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

World War II veteran William Lapschies, among the first Oregonians known to have the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), has been declared free of the virus

What my wars taught me about dealing with COVID-19

For the fourth year in a row, letters, post-cards, pictures, drawings and personal notes are being collected for the Medal of Honor Mail Call.

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Tristian Jackson survived almost 20 years in the military and deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom only to die just feet from his 4-year-old daughter for reasons still unknown

Michelle Howard had a Navy career filled with firsts

'The Japanese came in at treetop level. They started strafing us. We put the butts of our rifles down on the ground and shot back at them.'

Matthew Kraft, a platoon leader with the 1st Battalion/7th Marines at Twentynine Palms, part of the 1st Marine Division based at Camp Pendleton, disappeared after taking leave from the Marine Corps for a two-week backcountry ski trip along the High Sierra Route starting Feb. 24, 2019

Sgt. Melissa Paul is a wrestler who has been fighting all her life

“If it’s not stargeant for E5+ I will sh*t on someone’s desk.”

"It was a really good thing for my kids to get to see that this is what their dad is… that he really is a hero"

Each year in the United States an estimated 1.5 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury, according to the CDC

Army Spc. Antonio Moore died Jan. 24 in Deir ez Zor Province, Syria, during a rollover accident while conducting route clearance operations as part of Operation Inherent Resolve. It was his first deployment

"What we would like for you to think about is this man is no longer unclaimed — he is ours."

The Navy plans on naming its fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier after World War II hero Doris 'Dorie' Miller, an African-American sailor recognized for his heroism during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor — and not everybody is happy about it

There are few sounds more welcome to U.S. military personnel than the sound of an A-10 Thunderbolt II's GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm autocannon raining down a hail of lead on an unsuspecting enemy force. But here's a question: How the hell do you actually spell (and, in turn, pronounce) that sweet, sweet sound of freedom?