AUGUST 11, 2026 - Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, became Joint Base Lindsey Graham during a ceremony yesterday to rename the installation after the late senator, Air Force veteran and South Carolina native son. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth joined South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Sen. Darline Graham of South Carolina to dedicate the 32-square-mile installation, … [Read more...]
Medal of Honor Monday: Shemin
AUGUST 10, 2026 - Army Sgt. William Shemin, a rifleman, posthumously received the Medal of Honor in 2015 for extraordinary heroism during World War I combat operations in France. Shemin was born Oct. 14, 1896, in New York City. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Bayonne, New Jersey. He was born to Russian Jewish immigrants Harris and Bessie Shemin. He had one sibling, … [Read more...]
Navy Installations Host Free Concerts
AUGUST 10, 2026 – Navy Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) is turning up the volume with Operation MWR, a worldwide concert series bringing free, live entertainment to Service members and their families at 50 Navy installations through April 2027. Following successful concerts featuring Kane Brown and Russell Dickerson at Naval Air Station Pensacola in April and Brett Young … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Coordinates Rescue off Costa Rica
AUGUST 10, 2026 — The Coast Guard coordinated the rescue of 22 crew members from the motor vessel Min Jiang Kou after the ship experienced a fire approximately 630 miles south of Costa Rica Thursday. At 1:09 p.m., Coast Guard Southwest District watchstanders received an Inmarsat distress alert for the motor vessel Min Jiang Kou, a Marshall Islands-flagged vehicles carrier, … [Read more...]
Viewing the August 12, 2026 Solar Eclipse
AUGUST 10, 2026 - - On the evening of Wednesday, August 12, 2026, sky watchers in U.S. Army Garrison (USAG) Ansbach and across Europe will witness a historic celestial event, a partial solar eclipse. This is the deepest solar eclipse visible in Germany since 1999, and the country will not see this much of the sun obscured again until July 2075. A total eclipse will occur … [Read more...]