Military

Passengers on a flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles last month found themselves involved a moving moment when they learned a fallen soldier was being transported with them.

The memoirs of Vietnam Veteran and Author Mack Payne plus a visit with our planetary pundit Richard Walker (Longway Planetarium) and more on The Tom Sumner Program Tuesday November 5 beginning at 3 p.m. Hear Tom and Andrea weekday afternoons STREAMING LIVE at wfnt...

Commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech with Tom and Flint's premiere political pundit Paul Rozycki on The Tom Sumner Program Wednesday August 28 beginning at 3 p.m. Guests include Flint cop and author Brian Willingham ("Soul Of A Black Cop"), Retired Lt...

The 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers inspired actor and Marine Corps veteran Michael Broderick to create PosterProject.us, a fundraising initiative for GallantFew, a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminate veteran unemployment, homelessness and suicide...

When former Marine Shaun Duling met Bolt, a stray Labrador-shepherd mix, the little fella was skittish and hungry. Duling was doing contract work in Afghanistan with a German military unit, and while the Germans had adopted Bolt's sister as their mascot, the less-outgoing Bolt was mostly ignored.

When Tammy Faile and her two children were chosen as the military family of the game for South Carolina's match up Saturday against the University of Georgia, they probably expected some sort of message from their husband and father Sgt. First Class Scott Faile, who is stationed in South Korea. And that's what they got at halftime, a video message on the University of South Carolina’s Williams-Bri

Kevin Hillery, a 22-year-old man who was paralyzed last year after a tree fell on him, made history yesterday when he became the first-ever paraplegic to graduate from the United States Naval Academy. Way to go, Kevin!

Kids love and look up to Captain America from ‘The Avengers,’ so it was a shock for this one boy to see his favorite superhero show up on his doorstep. Though the bigger shock came when he realized that this real-life strong man was actually his army dad returning from Afghanistan.

Last week, the Pentagon decided open up thousands of near-the-front-line military jobs to female military personnel who were previously restricted from such roles. Women are still banned from combat, although this move to put them closer to harm’s way has upset some, including Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who said that when women are too close to the front line “emotions” could

We’ve all seen the heartwarming videos of soldiers stationed overseas surprising their children stateside with early returns home. And that’s how this video of Capt. Cherissa Jackson, who had been deployed in Afghanistan, begins, with mom surprising her daughters Anita and Ashley at a Gaitherburg, Maryland Kentucky Fried Chicken. But then it gets even more touching.