As the hangar doors opened at Colgan Air Services in Lacrosse, Wis., the journey ahead to the National Mall was rung in by the sound of turning gears and family cheers inside the hangar bay.

Retired U.S. Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen spent an hour addressing the NewDay USA Center audience at Georgia Military College. After his speech, Mullen engaged with cadets in a Q-and-A session.

Veteran Charles Shay, now 99, is spreading a message of peace with tireless dedication as he’s about to take part in the 80th anniversary commemorations of the landings in Normandy.

The jubilance of World War II liberation returned for four days in the Czech Republic’s fourth-largest city, as residents unfurled American flags in celebration of Pilsen’s rescue from Nazi occupation 79 years ago.

Stars and Stripes is sharing a series of interviews conducted by the World War II Foundation to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. 

Army veteran Jeffery Matthews didn’t apply himself in school. When his grades slipped, his father wanted to teach him a lesson and would not allow him to attend summer school. He had to repeat 11th grade.

According to prosecutors, an Air Force veteran became involved in a “scheme” to sell access to copyrighted content from the video libraries of Dish Network and Sling TV when he was stationed at Shaw Air Force Base near Sumter, S.C. — making him hundreds of thousands of dollars.

When Ben Miller’s wooden, flimsy paraglider landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944, his nerves were on edge. It was D-Day, and Miller, a 19-year-old WWII medic with the 82nd Airborne Division, was part of the invasion of German-controlled France. “I was scared,” Miller admitted.

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Former Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper is retiring after 42 years of service in the military. “Although I’ve served the last six years on active duty, the Army Reserve was a perfect fit since it allowed me the flexibility to pursue my civilian law enforcement career,’’ Roper said.

A sharp rise in the number of patients that the Department of Veterans Affairs refers to private community-based doctors for medical care is emptying VA exam rooms and eroding services, senators said.

Before he came to Congress, Brad Wenstrup was a podiatrist, a combat surgeon in Iraq, an Army Reserve officer and a candidate for Cincinnati mayor.

Navy veteran David E. Bulterman’s time on Earth ended Sunday, at the age of 83, 14 hours after returning home to Samaritan Summit Village from his Honor Flight.

While the U.S. military used Agent Orange to defoliate the jungles of Vietnam and adjoining countries, it was contaminating the land and waters of coastal California with the same chemicals, according to documents.

A retired lieutenant colonel was arraigned in a Fort Belvoir, Va., courtroom this month on a charge that he sexually assaulted a major in 2022 — using a rarely employed authority of the military legal system to prosecute officers in retirement.

Bruce Coval Meneley, who retired in 2016 as a Navy captain having earned dozens of awards and commendations, died when he was shot multiple times by police at a DoubleTree hotel in a suburb south of Seattle.

A new rule that makes tens of thousands of veterans eligible for benefits previously denied because of less than honorable discharges does not go far enough in providing a clear path for accessing services, according to veterans’ advocacy groups.

J. Gary Cooper, the first Black officer in the Marine Corps to lead an infantry company into combat, died Saturday at age 87.

Frank Fogarty knew nothing about nuclear physics on ships when he got pulled from his Korean War submarine duty to interview for a fledgling U.S. Navy program. But by 1957, Fogarty had joined the USS Nautilus crew — first as an engineering officer, and then during 1963-67 as the Nautilus’ fifth commanding officer.