Two ships. Ten guns apiece. Eighty men each, signed on for three months. That was the entire United States Navy on the day it began, and nobody involved would have called it a navy. Congress had authorized a pair of armed merchantmen to go bother British supply ships off the New England coast. It was […]
Featured image: Retired Army Col. Walter Joseph Marm Jr. salutes during the national anthem, Veterans Day 2011, New York. Photo by Staff Sgt. Teddy Wade, U.S. Army. Veterans Day falls on a Wednesday this year, 11 November 2026, and many people are quietly asking what to wear on Veterans Day. Somewhere this week, a veteran […]
Somebody in your family is about to make Chief, and a question has started going around the group chat. What is the Chief pinning ceremony uniform, and what are the rest of us supposed to wear? It is a fair question, and the answer is harder to find than it should be. Most people say […]
