Robert Kerrey led Navy SEAL teams in Vietnam and was later elected governor of Nebraska and then to the U.S. senate for a dozen years.

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In the last days of a year of struggle for the US military ... to earn the Medal of Honor. Indeed, many have been awarded posthumously. Only seven have been awarded to Navy SEALs since the ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

Although minor in size, the battle at Firebase Maureen was nonetheless major in ferocity — enough to produce two Medal of ...

In a country where the president seems, at times, to be mostly fictional, it's a pretty apt metaphor for the state of things that the "Navy's best recruiter" is also a non-existent pilot.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, is accused of killing at least 15 people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. He was shot and killed by ...

Military medals are a contentious subject. Given that rewarding the exceptional should be a positive thing, we do manage to extract a certain negativity from it, perhaps in a uniquely British way. I ...