This June, three Maine Air National Guard airmen assigned to the 265th Combat Communications Squadron retired together. All three shared their initial thoughts on the retirement process and what the ...

When I was a private, I laughed when anyone referred to what we do as a “career.” Almost 12 years later, the Army Reserve has afforded me a mobilization, an AGR assignment, and a couple of ADOS tours ...

A nearly 11-year active-duty military veteran and YouTuber with more than 139K followers, Christopher Bandini dared to tackle the age-old debate of who “has it harder” in a July video exploring the ...

There are 100 U.S. military veterans representing the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate in the 119th Congress, the most representation of military service Congress has seen since 2011 when ...

Several guardsmen and reservists who missed work due to military activations have launched a new mission – convince a jury that their employment rights are being violated. They argue that employers ...

In 2009, then-Lt. Col. Francis Evon led a battalion of teachers, tradesmen, and first responders into the mountains of Afghanistan. Though infantrymen while in uniform, the soldiers of the Connecticut ...

Fellow Marines surely were thankful that Bernice Frankel was a friend, traveling down the road and back again – as a truck driver in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve during World War II. Frankel – ...

The Army’s Mountaineer badge, better known as the Ram’s Head Device, has been around for decades. However, only those assigned to the Vermont National Guard were authorized to wear it on their ...

The National Guard has a long history with the Southwest border. In 1916, when famed Mexican revolutionary Poncho Villa proved elusive after raiding several American communities, President Wood­row ...

Childress was assigned to work at the Pentagon just days before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. If delivery of his household goods had not been delayed, there is a good chance he would have been at his ...

For Sgt. 1st Class Elijah Astor, 18 years spent in the Army turning wrenches as a 91X, maintenance supervisor, had become repetitive. “Once you’ve seen one motorpool, you’ve seen them all,” Astor told ...

After a 30 year career as a helicopter pilot, culminating in her promotion to chief of Navy Reserve, Nancy Lacore was unceremoniously fired. Six months later, she’s forging a new path — running for ...