May 3, 2016 Marines were once saved by candy from the sky When supplies were airdropped to Marines in North Korea, they opened the crates to find… candy.
May 3, 2016 The Ranger the Taliban called ‘the giant’ got his first NFL start Alejandro Villanueva is a former West Point lineman and Army Ranger who got his first start at tackle on Sunday as the Pittsburgh Steelers faced the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium.
May 3, 2016 Running for their lives: Retired Navy man does marathons to honor fallen heroes Jessica Theobald and her parents left their home in the early morning hours to drive from Pittsburgh to Baltimore to watch as Sid Busch, a man they’d never met, run a marathon.
May 3, 2016 This sniper crawled nearly 2 miles to kill one enemy general One of the most lethal snipers in history, Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock repeatedly succeeded in killing snipers sent to hunt him.
May 3, 2016 The Army built a fake base to fool Saddam Hussein — and it worked Forward Operating Base Weasel, an effort unlike anything since Operation Fortitude during WWII, the misinformation campaign designed to cover the real location for the D-Day invasions.
May 3, 2016 ‘I know how to defend myself’: SEAL who killed bin Laden responds to ISIS threat Rob O'Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed Usama bin Laden during the May 2011 raid in Pakistan, played down the recent threat from ISIS that labeled him its top target and reportedly posted his home address online.
May 3, 2016 Army veteran shot in the back after baseball game may never walk again An Army vet may never walk again after he was shot in the back while leaving a St. Louis Cardinals home game on Friday.
May 3, 2016 U.S. Navy veterans reunited after nearly 50 years The last time Patrick Switzer saw Leno Martinez, they were 19 year olds serving on the USS Boston in 1968.
May 3, 2016 Report blames VA's handling of contract, change orders for Denver hospital's huge cost overrun An investigation into massive cost overruns at a new veterans hospital outside Denver found VA officials didn't understand the complicated contract process they adopted and says they mismanaged change orders.
May 3, 2016 WWII vet transmitted news of Japanese surrender 70 years ago By the end of the war, Stephen Dennis was a shipboard radioman helping news organizations get the word out to the world that the Japanese had officially surrendered on Sept. 2, 1945.
