Military.com: A New Book Details the 7 Black Medal of Honor Recipients of World War II; Air Force Nominee Backtracks on Automated Monitoring of Troops for Extremist Social Media Posts and more ->
Task & Purpose: A Marine special operator on how to talk to kids about war “What is the saddest thing you have ever seen?” one girl asked. I had to think about it for a moment.; This Army unit is recreating historical photos of Black soldiers with today’s troops “I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for people like [Ng] that started that path for me to walk.”; A Marine sued the Navy over how it handles ‘bad paper’ discharges and won “Not everyone who serves overseas and is injured comes back missing a limb … That doesn’t mean that everyone who comes back is perfectly okay.; How a rivalry between two WWII vets led to the world’s smallest flyable airplanes Sky Baby vs. Bumble Bee and more ->
DoD: DoD Releases Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies and more ->
By Maria Popova, The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings): Code Girls: The Women Cryptographers of WWII While Alan Turing was decrypting Nazi communication across the Atlantic, some eleven thousand women were breaking enemy code in America.
