Most people assume the World War II draft began the day after Pearl Harbor. It didn’t. The United States started conscripting men more than a year before it entered the war, and the rules that governed who got called up changed dramatically once it did. Whether you’d have gone depends…
A Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II crashed Friday morning at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, sending black smoke above the base and igniting a brush fire near the flight line. The pilot ejected before impact and reached a local hospital in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. The…
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One of the most consistently underused benefits available to service members and their families is also one of the simplest to access: free, confidential, nonmedical counseling through Military OneSource, up to 12 sessions per issue, with no referral, no diagnosis and no reporting back to anyone’s chain of command. What…
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The Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System, DEERS, is the database that quietly underpins nearly every benefit a military family uses day to day: Tricare coverage, commissary and exchange access, base facility access, and the ID card that gets checked at every gate. It’s also one of the easiest things to…
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Danish military veteran Martin Tamm Andersen nearly lost his life fighting alongside American troops in Afghanistan more than 15 years ago. Andersen, a platoon commander, was leading his unit along with a group of U.S. Marines through the southern part of the country following an attack by the Taliban.Nothing seemed out…
Army veteran and retired world class athlete John Register could have felt sorry for himself after losing his left leg in a training accident prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics. Instead, Register took time to process his grief and develop a plan to forge ahead, even though his dreams and aspirations…
Before the Battle of White Horse Hill, South Korean soldiers were seen as a hollow force, known for running in the face of the enemy. American commanders called them “bug-out” units. Entire ROK divisions seemed to collapse when Chinese forces attacked. General James Van Fleet pulled them off the line…
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Capt. Douglas Whimpey, the commodore of First Naval Construction Regiment (1 NCR), was relieved of his duties on Friday, Jan. 23, becoming the first individual to lose such a position this year.He lost his role as commodore due to what the service attributed to the “loss of confidence in his…
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