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The Cost Of Caring For Afghanistan And Iraq Veterans Could Top $2.5 Trillion

Clare Fitzgerald
U.S. soldiers gathered below an army helicopter

A report published by the Costs of War Project on August 18, 2021 has shed light on the costs of caring for veterans of the…

The U.S. Military Destroyed Its Last Oliver Hazard Perry-Class Frigate In Explosive Fashion

Clare Fitzgerald
Ex-USS Ingraham on fire in the ocean

On August 15, 2021, U.S. joint forces conducted coordinated, multi-domain, multi-axis, long-range maritime strikes during a sinking exercise on the decommissioned guided-missile frigate, ex-USS Ingraham.…

WWI’s Harlem Hellfighters To Receive Congressional Gold Medal

In this National Guard historic painting by H. Charles McBarron, Soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment, the Harlem Hellfighters, go into action near Sechault, France, on September 29, 1918 during the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

On Monday, Congress signed the Harlem Hellfighters Congressional Gold Medal Act, which will see the WWI infantry unit awarded with the nation’s highest civilian honor.…

VA Launching Service Dog Program For Veterans With PTSD

Clare Fitzgerald
Man standing behind a service dog

The U.S. Senate has passed legislation requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to introduce a program to measure the effectiveness of service dogs on veterans…

Thief Steals Dead Veteran’s Purple Heart and Trades it for a Mountain Dew

A dead veteran’s Purple Heart medal was stolen from a family’s home in North Carolina, only to be traded for a bottle of Mountain Dew.…

U.S. Marine Commander Present At Iwo Jima Dies At 102

The family of Colonel Dave Severance has announced the death of the Marine veteran at the age of 102. His death on August 2nd at…

Sentence Handed Down After Panther Tank Removed From Pensioner’s Basement

Front view of the Panther tank

A German court has handed down its sentence in the case of an 84-year-old pensioner who was found to have a host of military memorabilia…

US Navy And Marines Are Conducting The Largest Military Exercise Since The Cold War

Large Scale Navy and Marines Military Exercise - 2021

The US Navy this week has kicked off the largest military exercise since the Cold War. The exercise spans different time zones and involves a…

Warrior Finds A New Home At The Tank Museum

Warrior 2 was gifted to the Museum by Bovington’s Armoured Trials and Development Unit (ATDU) in a formal ceremony. As custodians of the nation’s most…

From The Tank Museum: Popular David Fletcher Titles Reprinted

David Fletcher's The Great Tank Scandal

The Tank Museum is meeting a surge in demand for tank-related reading material by redesigning and re-publishing a series of classic David Fletcher titles. Following…

A Marine Returns Home – Remains from a Pacific Island Have Finally Been Identified

Battle at Tarawa Identification

The remains of a Servicemember who was killed in the Pacific Theatre during WWII have been officially identified as a US Marine. The battle that…

Last Surviving Member Of Britain’s Force Benedict Mission Dies At 101

Military portrait of Eric Carter + grounded Hawker Hurricane

Former Royal Air Force pilot Eric Carter has died at the age of 101. Carter was part of the top-secret Force Benedict mission in Russia,…