Chief Watertender Oscar V. Peterson spent 21 years at sea before May 7, 1942, when Japanese bombs turned the USS Neosho into ...

James Swanson’s story begins in Evanston, Illinois, in 1926, during the Great Depression. Growing up as the son of a minister who moved the family across Montana, Oregon, and Iowa, James learned ...

Samuel Grimes was born in Newport, Arkansas, to James Samuel and Ethel Fay Grimes on Dec. 11, 1947. The year was 1965 and Sam ...

England’s ‘wingless wonders’ were almost impregnable on their way to the final. It took until the 82nd minute of their semi-final against Portugal before they conceded a goal – and even that was from ...

In October 1966, the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Oriskany was preparing for flight ops off Vietnam when a routine ...

Join a group of British students as they take on the challenge of a South Korean military boot camp. From a buffet breakfast to facing tough physical tests set by ex-Korean Navy Seals Jangjae and ...

The Navy’s record-breaking recruiting numbers translated to the service’s highest production of basic training graduates in a decade with the graduation of sailors from Training Group 52, the Navy ...

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Faith Bottum’s “Life Lessons From the Cutting Edge” (op-ed, Nov. 24) reminded me of a similarly mundane awakening. It was 1972 at Navy boot camp, where we were taught the proper way to fold our ...

As the Detroit Lions barrel toward a Thanksgiving Day game with the Green Bay Packers, some die-hard fans may be fantasizing about what it would be like to be on the field themselves: calling plays ...

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