Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During The Great War, the U.S. Army needed extra communication support via telephone switchboard operators. So, General John J.

Grace Cussons, 28, was one of 23 soldiers out of 87 to pass the difficult all-arms pre-parachute selection earlier this month ...

Women are the fastest-growing segment of the veteran population, more than 2 million strong today. The commencement ceremony for the U.S. Army’s annual observance of Sexual Assault Awareness and ...

Among the heroes of the U.S. Civil War – from Generals Ulysses S. Grant, to Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Frederick Douglass – there’s another hero’s name you may not recognize. Sarah Emma ...

A powerful ceremony on Thursday honored World War I veteran Renee Messelin, the first Black woman soldier to serve overseas for the U.S. military. Some connections are instant. Others take a little ...

“It was a simple idea,” Diane Carlson Evans recalled, marveling at how a project that should have taken no more than two years, in her estimation, required nearly a decade of speech-making and ...