He is one of only two PT boat crewmen awarded his country’s highest honor during WWII. Preston retired from the Navy as a commander in 1953 and worked as a banker thereafter, before his death on ...

The Pentagon has approved nearly 21,000 employee resignations amid Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s effort to cut 5-8% of the military’s civilian workforce, a U.S. official said. (Senior ...

The sculpture of the popular children's character, unveiled last October in Newbury, Berkshire, was damaged before the broken pieces were stolen earlier this month. The stolen part of the statue ...

This image taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from the carrier Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday. (U.S. Navy via AP ...

A P-51 Mustang flies over Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., during a 2015 event. (A1C Philip Bryant/Air Force) For the Allied forces, the skies over Europe from 1942 to 1943 brought ...

This is the smallest of the boats the Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen operate. (There's also a mid-sized Combatant Craft Medium and a larger one called the Combatant Craft Heavy.