House unanimously honors two National Guard members attacked in DC
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution honoring the two National Guard members attacked in Washington, D.C., late last month. The legislation passed the House by voice vote on Monday afternoon, meaning lawmakers did not take...
B-52 with key radar upgrade flies to Edwards for testing
The first B-52H Stratofortress to receive a major radar upgrade last week flew to Edwards Air Force Base in California for testing, marking a significant milestone in the Air Force’s work to modernize its oldest bomber fleet. The B-52 conducted a ferry flight from Boeing’s...
How Field Marshal Montgomery predicted the rise of drone warfare
It might seem inconceivable that the use of drones in future battles would have come to the forefront of discussions of NATO strategy in the 1950s, but that is exactly what happened when Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery delivered an address to the Royal United Service...
Trinidad and Tobago to open its airports to US military
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — The government of Trinidad and Tobago said Monday that it would allow the U.S. military access to its airports in coming weeks as tensions build between the United States and Venezuela. The announcement comes after the U.S. military recently installed a radar...
Iowa National Guard IDs soldiers killed in ambush in Syria
The Iowa National Guard has identified two soldiers who were killed Saturday in an ambush by an apparent ISIS gunman in the Syrian city of Palmyra. Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Grimes, were killed in...
Army identifies 2 Iowa National Guard soldiers killed in Syria attack
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of the Army on Monday identified two Iowa National Guard soldiers who were killed in Palmyra, Syria. Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, Iowa,...
Against all odds: The 2nd Infantry Division’s fight at Elsenborn Ridge
The little road junction of Wahlerscheid was a veritable German fortress. Large concrete bunkers and log-covered pillboxes dotted the landscape, while the forest trails and roads bristled with mines and machine-gun nests. Barricades of barbed wire, piled high and 8 to 10 feet deep, covered...
NDAA restores women’s policy teams canceled in Pentagon DEI purge
Days after Pete Hegseth was installed as the Pentagon’s top civilian, some all-volunteer teams of service women working to address obstacles and improve policy became casualties of his war on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI. But a provision tucked into the $900 billion defense...
He went from mowing FDR’s lawn to the Battle of the Bulge
Ralph J. Osterhoudt, now 96, was 15 when World War II began. His family’s Hudson Valley, New York, farm was just a bicycle ride north of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Hyde Park estate, where Osterhoudt worked summers. Though a schoolboy, he stepped up to serve,...
Iowa National Guard member killed in Syria ISIS attack identified
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One of the two Iowa Army National Guard members killed in Saturday’s terrorist attack in Syria has been identified as the son of a local police chief. Meskwaki Nation Police Chief Jeffrey Bunn confirmed in a Facebook...
