A Nov. 11 Veterans Day ceremony at the Murray Nelson Government Center added a new facet to the proceedings. With the ...

Ferdinand Foch supposedly said it takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. Thank goodness it doesn't take that many to train a private.

Wars need weapons. Ask Midland resident Dick Votaw, who served in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps working with a product so ...

George Strait is a living country music legend. Ever since he released his debut album Strait Country (phenomenal name for his first project) in 1981, he’s been considered one of the genre’s greatest ...

The recent discovery of an unfinished mural by an unknown World War II soldier in a former Camp Crowder building represents a rare opportunity to preserve a work from the military's Camp Art Program.

Tom Nilles swears he did nothing special when he was a soldier in the United States Army. “I was just a typical northwest ...

“We can confirm that a recruit assigned to Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego was apprehended by San Diego Harbor Police at ...

Thomas Renner Sr. thumbed through a rack of camouflage jackets, most bearing patches embroidered with his last name, some ...

I went through basic training again at West Point the following year, although it was called Beast Barracks there. In 1988 I ...

MARQUETTE — Brendan Ruth moved to the Upper Peninsula when he was 16, relocating from his hometown of Fowler in lower Michigan. Ruth, now 23, served in the U.S. Army for a little less than four years, ...

Of today’s 340 million Americans, 18.6 million of us are veterans. We are the men and women, who in the prime of our young lives, became part of something much bigger than ourselves. We ...

The South Carolina Military Museum honored one of the few World War II veterans still alive, 99-year-old Bruce Cook.