Troopers block Bama Schools 1963
This nameplate was used in 1963
Elvis Presly is dead 1977
This nameplate was used in 1977

From the Archives

The bullet-riddled truck in which four United Nations Command soldiers — two Americans and two South Koreans — were killed in an ambush at the Korean DMZ in April, 1968.

DMZ ambush survivors seen lucky to be alive

Observers at the scene of Sunday night's bold ambush by Communist North Koreans who machine-gunned and killed four United Nations Command soldiers reached one conclusion: "I don't see how anybody survived this."

Infantrymen, of the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry bandage a wounded soldier after an American-fired mortar round fell short and exploded in the midst of the company.

1966: Troops and protests increase along with strategy concerns against a determined enemy

It was the year of the reality check, when Americans and their own government began to realize just what they faced in Vietnam — a resourceful and tenacious enemy, quarrelsome allies and an Asian society whose complexity they could barely understand.

George Webb, a civilian technical representative of Northrop Grumman, talks about an electronics system for Naval aircraft with Petty Officer 3rd Class Timothy Russell aboard the USS Kitty Hawk.

Civilian part of ship's tech team

George Webb has, as they say in the Navy, more time in the bathroom aboard ship than many of the sailors on the USS Kitty Hawk.

Petty Officer First Class Todd Wende reviews files in the Fleet Liason Office at Yokosuka Naval Hospital. He's in competition for the Shore Sailor of the Year award.

Petty officer in running for top honor in Pacific

If you ask Todd Wende who helped him become sailor of the year, he’ll credit everyone except for himself.

Navy Counselor 1st Class Neilyn Dionisio gives career advice to a young sailor at Yokosuka Naval Base.

Programs help servicemembers become officers

Airman Kerri Ackman cleans up after junior officers in staterooms aboard the USS Blue Ridge now, but if she has things her way, she’ll soon have a stateroom of her own.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Roland, one of the enlisted surface warfare specialist coordinators aboard the Curtis Wilbur, says the ‘murder board’ is the toughest part of earning an enlisted warfare pin.

The pin says it all

The pin says it all. You can roam around the bridge with ease. Know how the engine room works. Understand what it takes to get a ship or aircraft underway. How a ship’s weapons systems work.

Sailors pursue higher education during their lunch breaks through a midday course at Yokosuka.

Active duty offers variety of ways to pursue education

Whether a servicemember plans to get a degree on active duty or would rather hit the books full time on the outside, each branch of the military can bridge the gap to higher education.