A football player on a playing field.When the Kansas City Chiefs square off against the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl, Feb. 9, 2025, keep an eye out for Cole Christiansen, a U.S. Military Academy graduate and Army officer-in-waiting. 

After graduating from West Point in 2020, the

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A man and woman in uniform in the middle hold up a framed letter next to six others on stage. A banner above them reads “Secretary of Defense Maintenance Awards.”The Defense Department recently presented the 2024 Phoenix Award for Maintenance Excellence to sailors attached to the maintenance crew of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island.

Presented annually to honor DOD's top-performing field-level

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An illustration shows Abbie Sweetwine treating an injured man.Abbie Sweetwine didn't realize one day she'd earn fame and gratitude in the United Kingdom as the "Angel of Platform Six."

A native of Cocoa, Florida, Sweetwine became a nurse and joined the U.S. Army in 1942, serving in a number of stateside hospitals. 

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