C.A. Coffin's handwritten signature is a sleeve of the military coat helped researchers identify its origins. Nominations for Albany and Rensselaer county Hometown Hero awards are being accepted ...

Soldiers will wear period costumes from wars throughout U.S. history to march in the Army parade. 'It's a little hot, but ...

The first lady’s outfit was fully in line with the controlled and contained public image she had been crafting since the end ...

Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., said it was important for Congress to act because it holds jurisdiction over those military schools. "There are important physiological differences between men and women.

His administration also began to dismiss many top-ranking female officers from the military. Adm. Linda Fagan, the first woman to the lead the Coast Guard, was the first to be fired. Other women ...

Banta is the Executive Director of the USS Lexington Museum. The role of women in the military changed significantly in 1948 when President Harry Truman signed the Women's Armed Services ...

Air Force veteran Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa. (front), speaks during a Capitol Hill rally supporting women in the military on June 5. (Leo Shane III/Staff) Several dozen women veterans blanketed ...

This allowed women to serve as active members of the U.S. military. Before 1948, women served in temporary or volunteer roles without veteran benefits. Texas is home to over 200,000 women veterans.

Instead, in at least 21 states including Kentucky, special attention is paid to women’s military contributions. Parrott is one of nearly 2 million female veterans living in the U.S. today ...

It was the only predominantly Black, all-women’s U.S. military unit to serve overseas, and is also the subject of a recent Netflix movie. Their mission was to sort through a backlog of more than ...