Hundreds of new medals -- including Distinguished Flying Crosses and Bronze Stars -- are being given to airmen who helped with the 2021 evacuation of Afghanistan, and more awards are on the horizon.

A number of current and former Australian military commanders have had their medals stripped following allegations of war crimes committed during the Afghanistan War, Australian Defense Minister ...

The medals awarded to soldiers who participated in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre will be subjected to a review, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday.

Not including the four new awards, 260 service members have been presented the Medal of Honor for actions in Vietnam. Of those, 174 have been awarded to soldiers. About Leo Shane III ...

The president's directive is highly unusual. Achievement medals are awarded to service members routinely as a means to recognize what unit leaders deem exemplary performance by their subordinates.

President Joe Biden, right, talks with Laura Blevins, left, after presenting the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration, posthumously to her father, Gen. Richard Cavazos, during ...

Although the SEAC is considered the U.S. military’s most senior enlisted leader, the job involves serving as an advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff rather than as a direct ...