A retired lieutenant colonel was arraigned in a Fort Belvoir, Va., courtroom this month on a charge that he sexually assaulted a major in 2022 — using a rarely employed authority of the military legal system to prosecute officers in retirement.
Bruce Coval Meneley, who retired in 2016 as a Navy captain having earned dozens of awards and commendations, died when he was shot multiple times by police at a DoubleTree hotel in a suburb south of Seattle.
A new rule that makes tens of thousands of veterans eligible for benefits previously denied because of less than honorable discharges does not go far enough in providing a clear path for accessing services, according to veterans’ advocacy groups.
J. Gary Cooper, the first Black officer in the Marine Corps to lead an infantry company into combat, died Saturday at age 87.
Frank Fogarty knew nothing about nuclear physics on ships when he got pulled from his Korean War submarine duty to interview for a fledgling U.S. Navy program. But by 1957, Fogarty had joined the USS Nautilus crew — first as an engineering officer, and then during 1963-67 as the Nautilus’ fifth commanding officer.
In a case that could have significant implications for those who serve in the military, the Supreme Court will weigh a matter involving two veterans who argue they were improperly denied medical benefits for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder related to their service.
Congress gave a lying in honor ceremony at the Capitol to Ralph Puckett Jr., who led an outnumbered company in battle during the Korean War and was the last surviving veteran of that war to receive the Medal of Honor.
Tony Grinston may have retired from the Army as the service’s top enlisted member, yet in his new job as CEO of Army Emergency Relief, he’s still improving the lives of soldiers.
Prolonged deployments to bases with burn pits put veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at slightly higher risk for certain respiratory ailments, according to new research that used recently declassified deployment data.
A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of the murder of a disabled U.S. Army veteran, according to the 8th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.