Shurer was awarded the Medal of Honor on October 1, 2018, for his actions as a Green Beret medic with 3rd Special Forces Group during the Battle of Shok Valley in northeastern Afghanistan on April 6, 2008. Shurer was part of a team sent to capture or kill several high-value members of the Hezeb Islami al Gulbadin militant group. He passed away May 14, 2020, at the age of 41.
On June 6, 1944 the United States military participated in the largest multinational amphibious landing and operational military airdrop in history. This assault led to France’s liberation from the German military and the eventual defeat of the Nazis. By the end of the D-Day invasion, more than 9,000 allied troops were dead or wounded.
78 years later, U.S. troops remain forever indebted...
Checkered Flag, one of the DoD's largest air-to-air exercises, is a large-scale aerial exercise designed to integrate fourth and fifth-generation airframes to enhance mobility, deployment, and employment capabilities of Air Force aviators and maintainers. The two-week long exercise focuses on the integration of F-22 Raptor, F-35A Lightning II and fourth-generation aircraft in a large-force...
This page includes visual products of U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center’s autonomous vehicle demonstrations.
Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief, National Guard Bureau, hosts a three-nation USO Tour over Thanksgiving to thank troops from all services and components serving overseas through the holiday season.
Elements of the 7th Infantry Division will conduct training with elements from the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force at Yakima Training Center, Wash., from December 1 – 17, 2021 as part of Exercise Rising Thunder ‘21, an annual, bilateral combined exercise between the U.S. Army and JGSDF designed to increase interoperability and build combat capability between the two allies.
The Regional Health Command-Atlantic held its 2021 Best Medic Competition at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Nov. 15-19, 2021. Teams competed to represent the region at the U.S. Army Medical Command's 2022 Command Sgt. Maj. Jack L. Clark, Jr. U.S. Army Best Medic Competition at Fort Hood, Texas, Jan. 24-28, 2022.
Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is a pervasive global maritime security threat. By undermining international agreements and fisheries conservation measures, IUU fishing jeopardizes food security and economic security, with pronounced destabilizing effects on vulnerable coastal States.
The U.S. Coast Guard has been the lead agency in the United States for at-sea...
