Military and First Responders

A U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crashed during a routine training flight near Harbor Mountain outside Sitka, Alaska, on Monday morning, sending all four crew members to the hospital with what officials described as minor injuries. Watch standers at the Coast Guard’s Arctic District command center received word of the crash shortly after 10 […]

The Air Force on Wednesday identified the eight Americans killed when a B-52 Stratofortress slammed into the ground moments after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in California, a mix of military officers, a civilian engineer, and defense contractors whose routine test mission ended in the deadliest Air Force flight-test disaster in years. The bomber […]

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight crew members crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County, California, on Monday, and officials said initial indications were that the crash was not survivable. The bomber went down on the Edwards airfield around 11:20 a.m. Pacific time. Emergency response personnel rushed to […]

Navy sailor Jeremiah Copeland stood before a general court-martial Monday and admitted he killed 21-year-old Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Angelina Resendiz by strangling her inside his barracks room on May 29, 2025. The guilty plea, first reported by Fox News Digital, also included admissions to a false official statement, aggravated assault involving a second victim, […]

Royle Bradford Luker was seventeen years old when Japanese torpedoes tore into the USS West Virginia at Ford Island on the morning of December 7, 1941. He died that day alongside 105 of his shipmates. For more than eight decades, his remains lay in a grave marked “unknown” at the National Memorial Cemetery of the […]

On the exact day he died, eighty years later to the date, 1st Lt. Nathan Baskind of Pittsburgh was laid to rest at the Normandy American Cemetery with full military honors and in accordance with Jewish law. He had spent those eight decades buried in a mass grave alongside 23 Nazi soldiers in a German […]

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, who has built his campaign for the Maine seat on his military service, is facing fierce backlash from veterans and Republican senators after resurfaced Reddit posts showed him calling the U.S. Army “absolute trash” and mocking a soldier who was shot four times by the Taliban. The posts, written in […]

Robert “Bobby” Kilduff Jr., a 53-year-old Marine Corps veteran and 24-year member of the Boston Fire Department, died Saturday night after falling from the third floor of a burning home on Treadway Road in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. He had already saved a life earlier that same day. Kilduff, assigned to Rescue 2, suffered […]

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a pointed commencement address at the United States Military Academy on Saturday, announcing that the U.S. Army hit its fiscal year 2026 recruiting target with four months to spare, a milestone he called “a second record year in a row.” Standing before graduating cadets at Michie Stadium in West […]

A massive explosion ripped through a Staten Island shipyard Friday afternoon, killing one civilian and sending 34 FDNY firefighters and EMS workers to local hospitals, including a fire marshal now in critical condition with a skull fracture and brain bleed. The blast at 3075 Richmond Terrace, between Lockman and Andros avenues, struck at 4:19 p.m. […]