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US Airmen Adopt Little Girl with Special Needs From Ukraine
Tech. Sgt. Jamie Meadows-Valley traveled to a Ukrainian orphanage, even dodging street protests, to adopt a 2-year-old girl. Since then, the tiny girl named...
Love Never Dies for Widow Touring Country in Pink Armor
Alison Miller's 24-year marriage was so passionate and fulfilling that after her husband's sudden death, last spring from cancer, she felt so much grief...
Crowd of Helpers Show Up for Dying Soldier on Moving Day
A terminally ill soldier received more help than he could have imagined on moving day, as 100 soldiers, retirees, and civilians showed up to...
Pentagon Becomes a Major Wildlife Protector
Many of the nation’s 440 military bases were established in what were once sparsely populated hinterlands. Now, with urban sprawl pushing up against perimeter...
From Waterboy to War Hero, a Veterans Day Story
Ben Overstreet badly wanted to play football, but when he started his senior year at Gulf High School in 1949, he stood 5-feet-5 and...
Vietnamese Orphan Adopted by U.S. Airman Fulfills Father’s Hope Joining the Military he Loved
Air Force officer James Mitchell, overwhelmed by the hardship and destruction he witnessed in Vietnam, decided to visit the Sacred Heart Orphanage. When baby...
Private SpaceX Rocket Blasts off, Reopens American Route to Space Station
An unmanned, privately owned Falcon 9 rocket with a reusable cargo capsule blasted off from Cape Canaveral Sunday on a mission to restore a...
Military Families to Get Free Passes to National Parks
Members of the U.S. military and their families are being given free annual passes to national parks and iconic national monuments as part of...
Man Wins 2011 Amway Hero Award for Generosity
By the end of this week, twelve families in Guatemala will have a home, a direct result of one man's philanthropic efforts.
For the last...
Super Bowl Pizzas Give US Troops a Taste of Home
10,000 Uno’s pizzas will be delivered to U.S. troops overseas in time for Super Bowl Sunday, thanks to the Evans family of Illinois who...
Tuskegee Airmen Join Obamas for White House Screening of New Lucas Film About the Black Aviators
President Barack Obama and the First Lady invited Star Wars Director George Lucas and a few of the cast members from his new film,...
Soldier Tells Dad He’s Gay on YouTube, Inspires Millions
A 21-year-old U.S. soldier stationed overseas called his father in Alabama to tell him he's gay after the official repeal of the military's "Don't...
Military Continues to Go Green in Win-Win for the US
The United State military, the nation's largest energy consumer, is embracing conservation and sustainability as a way not only to save energy but to...
Granny Writes 70 Letters to Obama, Touts Good News Network
I've been writing to the President since May 5th... almost a letter a day. Since his birthday was August 4th I decided to write...
American Soldier Just Back from Iraq Wins Million Dollar Lottery
A U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. who just returned from Iraq won a million dollars from a scratch-off lottery ticket.
Just when the married couple,...
Small Florida Fish Back From Brink of Extinction
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is upgrading the status of the Okaloosa darter from endangered to threatened saying that the population is being...
Libya’s Rebellion Spawns A Trio Of Unlikely Heroes
It's only been a week since Libya's second-largest city, Benghazi, fell into the hands of pro-democracy rebels. But already the uprising has its own...
Pentagon Withdraws Opposition to Wind Projects After Radar Work-Around
In what is surely the most promising news of the decade for the nation’s burgeoning wind energy industry, the Pentagon has withdrawn its objection...
40,000 US-Donated Solar Radios Get Word Out and Charge Cell Phones in Haiti
Last week, an earthquake silenced telephone landlines and mobile services, leaving Haitians in the dark in more ways than one, but it's getting better...
Unprecedented Coordination Between Aid Groups on Display in Haiti
The good news from within the devestation in Haiti this week begins at the airport, where a U.S. Air Force ground control team...