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Army veteran Jim Markson served with the 377th Security Police Squadron at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon. He is co-author of “Vietnam & Beyond,” a collection of wartime letters he wrote to his mother from March 1967 to March 1968. This is his favorite story from the book, referencing the Tet Offensive and its aftermath.

It was September 1968. The monsoon rains were heavy, making movement in the bush complicated and infinitely more unbearable. Phase 3 of the Tet Offensive was in full swing with rocket and mortar attacks on Danang and Tay Ninh City.

The Islamic State problem in Iraq and Syria is “far from over” and U.S. and coalition forces are not letting up on efforts to neutralize the ISIS fighters from cities where they still have strongholds, military officials said Tuesday.

About 15 years ago, when Edwards was still in the league, he was approached by the United States Organizations, or USO, to tour to military bases around the world and bring cheer to American military men and women.

The B-25 Mitchell bomber that became known as the Badin Bomber crashed into the North Carolina lake on June 8, 1944. The bodies of the pilot and copilot, along with the wreckage were never recovered.

Former starting quarterback Zach Abey moved to wide receiver in April, but he had never played the position at any level of football before. Having a thorough understanding of Navy’s unique offense has helped his transition.

Dozens were trapped in their homes Tuesday by fast-rising water from flash floods caused by heavy pre-dawn downpours that drenched New York state's Finger Lakes region, inundating roads and sweeping tons of trees, debris and a camper with a woman trapped inside into one of the lakes.

Warrior Retreat at Bull Run is a sprawling 11,000-square-foot house on 37 acres in Haymarket, Virginia, which gives wounded soldiers a place to escape the sometimes brutal recovery process. The retreat automatically comes with a benefit that many soldiers have never before experienced: a seated, multi-course meal prepared by a chef in a state-of-the-art kitchen.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Transportation Security Administration had been testing body scanners for about a year. The machines can detect suspicious items from 30 feet away and have the capability of scanning more than 2,000 passengers per hour.

"The Miseducation of Cameron Post," the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner about teens enduring a gay conversion therapy boarding school, opens with a pastor warning adolescents that they're at an age where they're especially vulnerable to evil.

A huge section of the Morandi Bridge fell at midday over an industrial zone, sending vehicles, twisted steel and concrete onto warehouses below. The death toll fluctuated throughout the day and some people were found alive in the debris.

Paul Manafort's defense rested its case Tuesday without calling any witnesses in the former Trump campaign chairman's tax evasion and fraud trial. The decision clears the way for the jury to hear closing arguments in the trial, now in its third week.

The U.S. military appears to have ended its bombing campaign in the embattled city of Ghazni, which was the scene of heavy fighting after the Taliban tried to storm it on Friday.

SpaceX intends to send NASA astronauts into space, a significant point in the future of the company founded by Musk in 2002 with the goal of making space accessible to large numbers of people, and eventually colonizing Mars.

U.S. Marine Corps veteran and journalist Austin Tice went missing in Syria in August of 2012. His family believes he is still alive, held by forces in a country notoriously hostile to foreign journalists.

The Army is changing its 40-year-old enlisted education system with a new curriculum and an online course offering graded decisions that carry over to all academies for noncommissioned officers.

On Monday, 1,192 cadets took part in the 12-mile march back from Camp Buckner on the west end of West Point, following the conclusion of their first basic training.

Three factors most strongly predicted the risk of suicide: the severity of the traumatic brain injury (TBI), a first incidence occurring in young adulthood and discharge from a hospital for a TBI in the previous six months.

The U.S. military has concluded an unsuccessful five-day search for a Marine who is believed to have gone overboard an amphibious assault ship off the coast of the Philippines, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

A public celebration on Tuesday in Window Rock, Arizona, will include a parade, presentations, speeches and a luncheon to honor the more than 400 Navajo Marines who created a radio code during WWII.

"Crazy Rich Asians" is a crazy big deal. It's the first big Hollywood studio movie set in the present day featuring an all-Asian cast in 25 years, so there's a lot riding on Jon M. Chu's romantic comedy, an adaptation of Kevin Kwan's novel.

North Korea has skillfully driven a wedge between Trump and his administration, wooing the president with grand gestures while criticizing officials such as Pompeo who must work out the details.

Humans are hardwired to be connected, and when those connections cannot be found, the result is emotional pain.

A calendar of nearby water parks and pools of interest to people living on U.S. facilities in the Pacific.

A new exchange is the latest evidence of a growing Marine Corps presence in Australia’s Northern Territory.