One of the world’s busiest airports canceled all arrivals and departures until 11:59 p.m. Friday after a fire nearby ...

We’ve been following Karl Porisch, who graduated from Mankato State in 1968 and completed Marine Corps officer and helicopter flight training. The Marines assigned Karl to Okinawa, while his spouse ...

Cpl. Fred Benning was a World War I hero who became a baker, a successful businessman, and the mayor of Neligh, Nebraska.

The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...

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With peace talks on the table, Lord Ashcroft meets a shadowy Ukrainian special forces operative whose men have undertaken ...

The Vietnam War was in full force and in our living room every night. My mom and I watched Walter Cronkite, hoping and fearing for news of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. We waited for the mail each ...

He had to be tied to his bed at night and put in a straitjacket by day ... Wisner also arranged to parachute or infiltrate hundreds of operatives into Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe as well ...

It’s been less than two years since the Army renamed the training base near Columbus, Georgia, in honor of my parents, Lt. Gen. Harold “Hal” and Julie Moore. “Our family is deeply grateful ...

As she deals with the mandatory military therapy sessions she’s assigned, Merit is also tasked with taking care of her aging militant Vietnam vet ... camcorder on our airborne operations ...