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Navy

From Crackerjack to Aquaflage: Exhibit highlights Navy’s impact on fashion

The uniforms of sailors have spawned civilian fashion trends still popular today, from white t-shirts to dungarees. The journey from the high seas to cultural icons is told in a new exhibit at the Puget Sound Navy Museum in Bremerton, Wash.

December 1, 2024

Joe Walsh performs onstage during the 52nd Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala in New York City on June 15, 2023. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Veterans

Joe Walsh, still soaring with the Eagles, coming to San Diego for VetsAid concert

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Joe Walsh is understandably proud of the lineup for his VetsAid benefit concert in San Diego on Sunday. The concert will be the seventh edition of VetsAid since Walsh and his wife, Marjorie, launched the event in 2017.

November 7, 2023

A robot monk gazes skyward at an American military space installation called Nomad in a scene from “The Creator.”

Entertainment

‘The Creator’ nukes Hollywood

Film’s director Edwards shares his thoughts on AI, making the sci-fi movie and promoting it during the actors strike

October 3, 2023

William Lee holds a framed Panthers football jersey during the homecoming game at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. It was signed by Lee and fellow alumni who returned to celebrate Yokota High's 50th anniversary.

Air Force

Alumni celebrate high school’s 50th year with football, feasts at US base in Japan

Yokota High School alumni returned to their alma mater to celebrate 50 years of the school’s existence.

October 2, 2023

Soldiers with the call sign Witcher, 19, center, Labrador, left, and Miami, right, from Ukraine's 78th Assault Regiment chat about using humor to deal with war after arriving at a trench, forward from the village of Mala Tokmachka before dawn on July 7 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Ed Ram.

Europe

For these young soldiers, Ukraine has been at war for half their lives

They were children when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Now, these teenage drone operators spend their days glued to their screens, fighting for their country’s survival.

August 1, 2023

Lee Ellis spoke about his experience as a Vietnam War POW at a Gainesville Kiwanis Club meeting on June 20. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

Veterans

Former Vietnam War POW enjoys 50 years of freedom

Between the boredom, deprivation and beatings he endured during the nearly five and half years he was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Lee Ellis recited poems and memorized the names of more than 150 other POWs. From fellow American captives, he learned Spanish and German.

July 20, 2023

A video screen grab from a June 2018 interview shows Vietnam veteran Michael Vanderveen, who enlisted in the Marine Corps on his 18th birthday in February 1968 and arrived in Vietnam in June as an infantry rifleman with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines.

Veterans

50 years after end of US military involvement in Vietnam, veterans reflect on life, losses

America's military involvement in the Vietnam War ended 50 years ago this year, but the legacy of and respect for those who served continues to grow.

May 26, 2023

The Gary Sinise Foundation’s Lt Dan Band plays The Villages, Florida on October 27, 2019.

Entertainment

Lt. Dan comes home: Gary Sinise brings rock band to DC to honor Vietnam veterans

This year’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War has special meaning for Sinise, whose best-known role might still be as Army Lt. Dan Taylor, a platoon leader who loses his legs fighting in Vietnam in 1994’s “Forrest Gump.”

May 18, 2023

A soldier from COP Monti walks on the road along the Kunar River Valley after a smoke grenade was set off to mark the site of a suspected bomb that was spotted in the ground.

History

From the archives, 2010: Monti’s Chaos

Last summer, COP Monti in Afghanistan suffered a spate of deadly attacks that would reverberate throughout the outpost and back home.

April 18, 2023

Air Force

Fighter jets blasting spy balloons from the sky have North Texas ties

The F-16 Fighting Falcon that shot down an unidentified flying object Sunday over Lake Huron is familiar to many in Texas. When the F-16 production line in west Fort Worth was rocking and rolling in the late 1980′s, it employed tens of thousands of workers and churned out nearly one jet per day.

February 14, 2023

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