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The same thread has run through efforts in recent years to change the name of military bases that previously honored Confederate War heroes, and to review medals awarded to soldiers who may have ...
Chief (1932–1968) was a horse owned by the United States Army.He has been credited as the Army's last living operational cavalry mount.Mustered into service in 1940 in Nebraska, Chief was posted to Fort Riley and served with the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments before being sent to the U.S. Army Cavalry School.
Charles Francis Adams Jr. (May 27, 1835 – March 20, 1915) was an American author, historian, and railroad and park commissioner who served as the president of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1884 to 1890.
This advocacy became the natural springboard for TAPS newest program, Caregiver to Survivor, launched April 2021 [60] in partnership with the Elizabeth Dole Foundation and American Red Cross Military and Veteran Caregiver Network. The collaboration creates a seamless connection for military caregivers as they deal with the impacts of isolation ...
In 1994, the military's discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on gay and lesbian service members was enacted under former President Bill Clinton's administration, a policy he later said he ...
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...
Kermit Roosevelt Sr. MC (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943) was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. A son of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Kermit graduated from Harvard College, served in both World Wars (with both the British and U.S. Armies), and explored two continents with his father.