The President of the United States serves as the Commander in Chief of the nation’s armed forces. While not in the chain of command, the Vice President is next in line to take command. Although these ...
President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office from inside the Capitol Rotunda on Monday due to forecasts of ...
That makes him, according to the Hoover Institution’s Niall Ferguson writing in Foreign Affairs, like Ronald Reagan ... pressure was exerted by Reagan’s military build-up, the promotion ...
The national service was attended by Carter’s family ... soon found a very charismatic messenger to push the cause: Ronald Reagan. The actor-turned-politician became the American avatar for ...
With many U.S. service members set to pocket their biggest military pay raise since President Ronald Reagan gave some troops a 16.5% increase in 1982, they now face an important choice ...
Against a vigorous and masterful communicator like Ronald Reagan, who touted military strength and confrontation with the Soviet Union as more than a necessity but a virtue, Carter appeared lacking.
George H. W. Bush did not. Ronald Reagan, a noted enthusiast did, and that’s the last time the caisson unit took part. “We’re under a microscope,” Lt. Col. Derrick Draper, deputy commander ...
For almost half a century, the Philippines served as the linchpin of American military power in Asia. During the height of the Vietnam war, the sprawling Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base on ...
“He didn’t let anything stop him,” said his daughter Yvette Benavidez Garcia after a Friday ceremony honoring the Texan hero at the Ronald Reagan ... s highest military award for valor.
Carter's state funeral officially begins on Saturday with Secret Service agents from his current ... former presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.
Benavidez, who was given the Medal of Honor by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 ... The Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration for valor, is given to those who show conspicuous ...