SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At least 75 Guantanamo detainees have been cleared for release by a task force sorting through the remaining prisoners as part of the Obama administration's effort to shutter the jail, according to a list released Monday by the U.S. military. ...more

September 28, 2009

Navy Lt. Melane Byrd, daughter of Melane and Johnnie B. Byrd Jr., recently returned home from a seven-month deployment to the Persian Gulf with the aircraft carrier USS Truman in Virginia Beach, Va. ...more

August 6, 2008

America's first war crimes trial since World War II went to the jury Monday as a panel of six U.S. military officers began deliberating whether to send Osama bin Laden's former driver away for life. ...more

August 5, 2008

Even when troop levels eventually start to drop in Iraq and Afghanistan, special operations forces will remain, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday night. ...more

May 22, 2008

The U.S. military is reinforcing the sides of its top-line mine-resistant vehicles to shore up what could be weak points as troops see a spike in armor-piercing roadside bombings across Iraq, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

May 10, 2008

Navy Lt. Melvin Spence Dry dropped out of a helicopter into choppy waters off the coast of North Vietnam in June 1972. On a classified mission to rescue two escaped U.S. prisoners of war, he died the moment he hit the water. ...more

February 26, 2008

The Hugo Schmidt Elementary School Sailors celebrated Veterans Day on Nov. 9. Kindergartners waved star-spangled banners, and everyone pledged allegiance and joined choral director Marshall Gillon's Pride chorus in singing the national anthem as the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps color guard from Tampa Bay Technical High School displayed the flag. ...more

November 21, 2007