Connection with the natural world can affect the way we grieve, as well as the way we choose to live and ultimately thrive, say the authors of this commentary by the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS).
As large fires continue to rage across the West Coast, elements of the Air National Guard from across the U.S. have been sent in to assist on the ground and in the air, high above the flames and the billowing smoke.
Maj. Gen. David Baldwin said the fact that he lives in El Dorado Hills had nothing to do with the California National Guard sending the RC-26B to monitor peaceful protests there in June.
Welcome Home Military Heroes saluted WWII vet Henry Barba with a 50-vehicle parade on Saturday, the organization's 34th such vehicle salute since the pandemic began. The group also welcomes troops returning home.
National Guard rescuers in two military helicopters airlifted 214 people to safety on Saturday after flames trapped them in a wooded camping area near Mammoth Pool Reservoir.
64,000 National Guardsmen are currently activated for domestic and overseas missions. The problems they're responding to show no signs of letting up soon.
The Russian navy conducted major war games near Alaska involving dozens of ships and aircraft, the military said Friday, the biggest such drills in the area since Soviet times.