In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established a presidential directive allowing African Americans to be recruited in the Marine Corps. African American recruits were not trained at Parris Island or San Diego, but were segregated and received basic training at Montford Point, a facility at Camp Lejeune, N.C. From 1942-1949, approximately 20,000 African American recruits received training...
The military provides ceremonial support to a congressional funeral to honor and pay tribute to a senator. The highest honor the military and the public can give to a senator is a congressional funeral. The men and women of the Department of Defense are proud to be a part of this historical event.
Memorial ceremony honoring the life and service of U.S. Army Pfc. Robert B. Giffen III at Camp Frank D. Merrill, Dahlonega, Ga.
This is a feature page highlighting the burial ceremony at Normandy for the Pieper Brothers - two brothers killed during the Normandy Invasion and recently reunited.
News, images and video related to President Barack H. Obama.
Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States.
His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.
With a father from...
William J. Clinton
During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country's...
News, images and video related to former President George H.W. Bush.
George Herbert Walker Bush served as the 41st President of the United States. A veteran Republican politician, he had previously held office as a congressman, ambassador, CIA director and 43rd Vice President of the United States during the Reagan administration.
Born in Milton, Mass., Bush attended the prestigious...
News, images and video related to former President George W. Bush.
George Walker Bush served as the 43rd President of the United States. He previously held office as the Governor of Texas. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut while his father was attending Yale University after service in World War II. The family moved to Midland, Texas, where the senior Bush entered the oil exploration...
