Retired Staff Sgt. Waldrop, now 91 years old and living in St. Helena Island, S.C., vividly remembers details of his experience during World War II. “Have you ever seen airliners go across with their condensation trails? Can you picture half…

Retired Staff Sgt. Waldrop, now 91 years old and living in St. Helena Island, S.C., vividly remembers details of his experience during World War II. “Have you ever seen airliners go across with their condensation trails? Can you picture half…
PHOTOS: U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines patrol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on April 17th, 2014. Image Gallery
Australia has agreed to purchase F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter aircraft, and the Defense Department will deliver Apache helicopters to Egypt, a Pentagon spokesman announced today. “Our partners in Australia announced that they decided to buy 58 F-35 aircraft,”…
PHOTO: A Soldier with the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team trains in Germany in 2012. A company-sized element of the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team — about 150 soldiers — will arrive in Poland tomorrow to begin…
Black Hawk Helicopters from C Company, 3rd Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, Massachusetts National Guard conduct a flyover to mark the start of the 118th Boston Marathon.
The Hornet’s Nest movie, coming in May 2014, uses real footage to tell the story of an elite group of U.S. troops sent on a dangerous mission deep inside one of Afghanistan’s most hostile valleys. Two embedded journalists, a father…