Military

A 104-year-old World War II veteran hopes to receive plenty of Valentine’s Day cards this year, to add to his collection of keepsakes documenting his own incredible life and generation.

The U.S. Air Force said Monday it is investigating the cause of death of two servicemen who died at a base in Germany last week.

Both soldiers were killed when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, officials said.

A soldier from Aurora, Miguel Villalon, has been killed in Afghanistan.

U.S. Navy officials said a warship in the Arabian Sea was "aggressively approached" by a Russian Navy vessel.

U.S. officials said the U.S. military tried, but failed, to take out another senior Iranian commander on the same day that an airstrike killed the Revolutionary Guard's top general, Qasem Soleimani.

World War II veteran Peter Fantasia, 103, was finally awarded the long-overdue combat medals he never sought for his military service 75 years ago. 

"More than a dozen" ballistic missiles were launched at two military bases in Iraq that house U.S. troops in retaliation to the killing of a top Iranian general, defense officials confirmed.

Men and women who serve our country are suffering, and some have died due to serious errors in military health care. For years, they could not seek any compensation or remedy from our government. But the story of Richard Stayskal, and his efforts in Washington, drove change. 

Two other Americans, both contractors with the U.S. Department of Defense, were also killed Sunday by al-Shabab extremists at Manda Bay Airfield.

Hundreds of U.S. soldiers deployed Saturday from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Kuwait to serve as reinforcements in the Middle East amid rising tensions following the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general.

The United States military is sending more troops to the American Embassy in Baghdad in the wake of violent protests.

A central Texas man was overwhelmed by the response after he put out a call asking his local community to donate their leftover Christmas trees to him instead of throwing them out so that he could turn them into canes for veterans in need.

In video footage and text messages obtained by The New York Times, Navy SEALs who turned in Edward Gallagher described him as "toxic" and "evil."

The body of Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Goble arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Christmas Day.

Albert Septien was told his cancer, likely due to Agent Orange exposure, would make this Christmas his last, so his cousin granted his one wish: snow.

A Tennessee community is mourning the loss of a soldier who was home for Christmas and his 1-year-old son, who were both killed in a head-on car crash Thursday night.