May 8 is Military Spouse Appreciation Day in Texas, and military service members and veterans are invited to show appreciation and affection to their spouses on the home front.
"Chess has never been more popular, but its ugly side has also never been more exposed."
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Service members and their dependents have many opportunities to get help with education before, during and after they serve.
The Military Working Dog section at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California, named the kennels after Sgt. Adam Cann, a marine who lost his life in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006 during the attack of a suicide bomber. The current MWD handlers, trainer and kennel master accept a photo of Sgt. Cann and we briefly highlight them and their dogs and the work of the MWD section at MCLB Barstow.
It’s April Fool’s Day in Eagle Pass, but there’s nothing to laugh about here. On a cloudy spring evening, a dozen activists and spiritual leaders gather in a circle—just feet from the bank of the Rio Grande and a miles-long maze of concertina wire—with white carnations, daisies, and hymn lyrics in hand. This group has […]
Pyotr Tolochko, the pre-eminent historian and archeologist of Kievan Rus, passed away quietly in Kyiv, Ukraine, late last month at the age of 87. Tolochko devoted his entire life to studying the early history of Ukraine, including 30 years as head of the Institute of Archeology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.His hundreds of scholarly articles and more than two dozen monographs led to international acclaim and appointments at several European and international academies, as well as two...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines must evolve fast and “try to focus on actual soldiering” because of threats to a “free and open” Asia-Pacific region, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. said on Friday.
Team Tyndall is characterized by various groups of people, active-duty military personnel, friends, significant others, contractors and many more, all of which contribute to one team, one fight. Established in 1984, Military Spouse Appreciation Day is observed the Friday before Mother’s Day each year to honor the unique contributions and sacrifices they make in addition to that of the serving member.
The Maldivian government had set May 10 as the deadline for New Delhi to pull out all its soldiers from the island nation.
A diver swims next to a submerged military vehicle at the Underwater
Kirk Goldsberry is an acclaimed basketball writer, a sports analytics-professor at the University of Texas, and a former strategic-research executive with the San Antonio Spurs, but first and foremost, he’s a mapmaker—he’s the Magellan of the modern NBA, using charts and infographics to show us the unseen truth of the game hiding right in front of our eyes. He made his name more than a decade ago, during the halcyon days of what came to be known as “NBA Twitter,” by gathering up all the...