The Blue Angels' high level of precision begins nearly 90 minutes before the six gleaming F/A-18 Hornets take to the skies; and as Captain Greg McWherter, Blue Angel No. 1, announces the start of the preflight brief, banter between the officers ceases and the team puts on the collective game...

Act of Valor, opening in theaters nationwide today, is about a team of Navy SEALs who are charged with finding a kidnapped CIA agent, which in turn, leads them on a mission to stop terrorists planning a series of suicide bombings in cities across the United States. But the project...

Army Sgt. First Class Leroy Petry was just over a month into his sixth war deployment when he got the nod to be part of a daylight raid to capture a "high value" Taliban leader holed up in the most desolate part of Afghanistan's Paktika Province.

On May 26, 2008,...

When I heard earlier this week that Time magazine had picked "The Protester" as its Person of the Year, two other classic fails across the American pop landscape came to mind: When the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded a Grammy to Jethro Tull over Metallica for the...

Through the spring and summer of 2008 I was witness to a sea change. Military veterans -- both officer and enlisted -- were warming to the notion of Barack Obama as president -- an eye-opener in that during previous election cycles this same demographic had skewed predominantly Republican.

While covering...

Between '91 and '98 I spent three aircraft carrier deployments patrolling the skies over southern Iraq. Operation Southern Watch, as the UN-mandated no-fly zone was called, was designed to ensure that Saddam's military didn't bounce back from the beating it took during Desert Storm.

And it worked. As a result...

Put another check in the win column... but do it quietly. After all, the Great Libyan War of 2011 was fought (and won) without really asking anybody if it was a good idea. No briefs to the UN. No requests to Congress. No petitions to the American people. No Code...