American Legion Magazine

1 week ago | legion.org | Matt Grills

A new memorial in Washington, D.C., will pay tribute to the sacrifices and heroic deeds of service animals and their handlers. In her three decades as an artist, Susan Bahary has sculpted some of the country’s most famous service animals: the Marine war dogs of Guam, President George H.W. Bush’s service dog Sully, and a certain Boston terrier mix who helped locate wounded and capture a German spy in World War I. “They’re like my children, so it’s hard to pick a favorite,” she says.

3 weeks ago | legion.org | John Vandiver

The soldiers who died last week during a mission in Lithuania were remembered as a mix of dedicated young fathers, talented Army mechanics and key members of a close-knit unit. Three of them were promoted posthumously. The soldiers who died during a mission in Lithuania were remembered this week as a mix of dedicated young fathers, talented Army mechanics and key members of a close-knit unit.

4 weeks ago | legion.org | Linda Hersey

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins accepts request to appear before Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins will come before the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee for the first time since taking office to answer questions about the agency’s plans to further reduce its workforce amid a hiring freeze and the cancellation of hundreds of contracts with community agencies. Collins accepted a request by Sen.

1 month ago | legion.org | Phillip Walter Wellman

Army’s arrival in Kaiserslautern on March 20, 1945, marked the beginning of a decades-long relationship that would see the U.S. military shape the economy and identity of the city and surrounding area like nowhere else in Europe. Gen. George Patton’s Third Army faced little resistance as it advanced through southwest Germany into a small industrial city scarred from years of Allied bombing.

1 month ago | legion.org | Wyatt Olson

Hegseth: ‘We must remain vigilant in maintaining the standards that enable the men and women of our military to protect the American people and our homeland as the world’s most lethal and effective fighting force.’Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered a “rapid” services-wide review of existing standards for physical fitness, body composition and grooming, according to a Pentagon news release.