Military

Even though she was born before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Virginia Lyman Lucas was in her 50s before she realized how little she knew about American actions that "saved Western civilization from the oppression of tyrants."

The U.S. Naval Academy may continue using race in its admissions process, a federal judge ruled Friday, brushing back an attempt by a group that had successfully overturned affirmative action in college admissions to extend that to the Annapolis-based military academy.

Stanley Primmer was knocked unconscious and blown out of his shoes after a Japanese kamikaze pilot dropped a bomb and then slammed the aircraft into the U.S. Navy veteran’s ship during World War II.

Jason Eagle was enjoying his time in the U.S. Navy when, about a decade ago, he realized something was off.

“Hoo-pai, Shoo-pai,” the Alent family chanted the Polish phrase under their umbrellas at the grave of their grandfather Monday morning at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake.

During World War II, pinup girls with porcelain skin, scarlet lips and daintily arched brows offered troops reminders of the girls back home.

A wave of green lights has taken over Spokane’s night skies this week.

As a U.S. Navy carrier battle group entered the Persian Gulf, it came under surprise attack by adversaries launching missiles from commercial ships and radio-silent aircraft that quickly overwhelmed its missile defense systems. Nineteen U.S. ships, including the aircraft carrier, were destroyed and sunk within 10 minutes.

Two women the U.S. Navy called role models and trailblazers were identified Monday as the aviators of an EA-18G Growler aircraft that crashed into a mountainside near Mount Rainier.

The U.S. Navy declared on Sunday the two missing aviators who crashed last week near Mount Rainier dead.

The U.S. Navy, local law enforcement and partner agencies reached the remote location where a Navy EA-18G Growler crashed during a routine training flight Tuesday east of Mount Rainier.

The wreckage of a Navy aircraft that crashed near Mount Rainier this week was spotted Wednesday afternoon. Two crew members who were onboard remain missing.

Aerial search crews located the wreckage of a U.S. Navy aircraft after a full day of combing the mountains and forests east of Mount Rainier.

Two aviators were missing Tuesday after a U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler crashed east of Mount Rainier on a routine training flight, according to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.

Hundreds of military service members kicked out of the armed forces because of their sexual orientation under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will be given honorable discharges, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

When Christopher Weichman pulled up to a dirt lot on the northwest edge of Spokane on Wednesday morning, his family hopped out of their SUV and hugged each other.

A bell rang 28 times Thursday, once for each of the unclaimed veterans who were being interred at Washington State Veterans Cemetery outside Medical Lake.

Beginning Thursday morning, the military airmen of Fairchild Air Force Base marched all day and through the night in memory of those who have been prison ers of war or missing in action.

An Osprey aircraft caught fire Wednesday on the flight line at Fairchild Air Force Base, according to military officials.