Decades after serving in Asia, the children of American service members are finding their parent through DNA testing.
Rebecca L. Root is a multimedia journalist based in Bangkok but reporting globally. She covers humanitarian aid, human rights ...
He was a military man straight out of central casting: 6 foot 5, stoic, and certain. His call sign, bestowed on him during the Vietnam War, was “Warrior.” My nickname for him was “Dadmiral,” and for ...
As my father, a Navy pilot, neared the end of his life, we watched “Top Gun: Maverick” together. “It was good,” he commented. “I’m better.” That was my father, Richard Chester Macke, a Naval Academy ...
Being a Marine and later an international aid and human rights worker taught me how to read a room. Vietnam. Beirut. Somalia. Bosnia. Rwanda. Iraq. Afghanistan. Survival depended on noticing what ...
When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of generals and admirals from around the world to Quantico, Virginia, last September, he delivered a blunt message: Things were changing fast in ...
If not for what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, Valeria Casillas probably would not have joined the military. But in the surge of patriotism following deadly terrorist attacks on New York City and outside ...
The life-affirming embrace of the wilderness has always filled me with wonder, its green arms making me feel more vital and connected with every plant, bug, and scurrying creature. My father was a ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs opened an Inspector General probe in February in response to a War Horse investigation alleging that veterans were being cut off from one-on-one therapy at VA ...
Filipino laborers excavate a trench in the Philippine city of Marawi during a search for three U.S. servicemen executed by Japanese forces in 1942. A Virginia-based nonprofit partnered with Filipino ...
The soldier wakes at 6 a.m. after getting only three or four hours of sleep. He showers, shaves, and puts on his uniform by 7 a.m., even as his head pounds from a traumatic brain injury. Sometimes, ...