Deborah Sampson covered her chest with a tight piece of cloth, adopted a man's name and enlisted in the Continental Army's elite light infantry in 1782. For 17 months, she marched through the Hudson ...

U.S. Navy sailors from the USS Carl Vinson marched across the 6th Street Viaduct on Memorial Day in Los Angeles. (Mario Tama / Getty Images) Last month, the Pentagon automatically granted honorable ...

Sexual assault is still a major issue for the military. Reports rose by 10 percent last year, though there is some discussion about whether that is an increase in the number of assaults or an ...

Tony Wilson sat at his work desk, overhead shelves filled with books, college memorabilia, a framed family photo and his ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Defense will consider granting honorable discharges to more than 30,000 gay and bisexual veterans who were barred from serving in the military because of their ...

Cheers, hugs, smiles and even a few tears greeted the last Honor Flight of the year at Springfield-Branson National Airport ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The Defense Department's old Don't Ask Don't Tell policy barring openly gay, lesbian or bisexual people from military service was repealed by President Barrack Obama in 2010. Under it, ...

Last month, the Pentagon automatically granted honorable discharges to 800 of the estimated 13,000 veterans who had been pushed out of the military during the 1994-2011 "don't ask, don't tell" era ...