On D-Day, June 6, 1944, thousands of U.S. soldiers and their gear came ashore in Higgins boats on Utah and Omaha beaches in Normandy, France.
Andrew Jackson Higgins, a boat builder in New Orleans, is rightfully credited with the design of the
Army Staff Sgt. Andrea Okrasinski didn't start her military career on active duty — she spent years working in the civilian education field first. More than a decade into that career, however, a chance assignment led her to combine her passion for
From the harsh ridgelines in Italy during World War II and the frigid peaks of Korea during the 1950s, to the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan, mountaineering has long been a necessary skill for U.S. service members in battle. To deter conflicts and defeat