The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...

Her great-niece Gilda Leftenant confirmed the death, in a nursing facility ... but was told the military did not accept Black women. She kept trying, and in 1945, with the flow of wounded ...

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.

Almost three weeks after the death of Private Ana ... and increased dissatisfaction with military service living conditions, especially among Hispanic and Black women. Although the group, Protect ...

And in 2023, three separate Black Hawk crashes resulted in the death of 16 American service members. Those accidents included one midair collision, one ground crash, and another into the sea. In ...