Freedom High senior Joe Gazzillo has a sweet treat bound for troops deployed in Afghanistan. ...more

December 16, 2009

Freedom High senior Joe Gazzillo has a sweet treat bound for troops deployed in Afghanistan. ...more

December 14, 2009

Freedom High senior Joe Gazzillo has a sweet treat bound for troops deployed to Afghanistan. He has collected about 250 pounds of candy since Halloween to send to his cousin and other Marines in the war zone. Bags of snack-sized M&Ms, Almond Joy, Snickers and other assortments of candies poking out of plastic containers and boxes fill the foyer at the Gazzillo's suburban home. ...more

December 13, 2009

I am a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, where winning is not just the best thing, but the only thing, as it should be for the military. I was a Navy fighter pilot flying off carriers. We never believed in coming in second. ...more

April 3, 2009

Five Tampa students speak a common theme: a desire to serve their country. ...more

February 25, 2009

Retired Marine Col. John Ripley, who was credited with stopping a column of North Vietnamese tanks by blowing up a pair of bridges during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War, died at home at age 69, friends and relatives said Sunday. ...more

November 2, 2008

John McCain's second bid for the White House has had the ups and downs of a wild Navy fighter jet ride. ...more

October 19, 2008

Christopher Parker Kline is the kind of kid who was born to attend military school. ...more

August 18, 2008

U.S. troops have donated more presidential campaign money to Democrat Barack Obama than to Republican John McCain, a reversal of previous campaigns in which military donations tended to favor GOP White House hopefuls, a nonpartisan group reported Thursday. ...more

August 15, 2008

Navy Lt. Melane Byrd, daughter of Melane and Johnnie B. Byrd Jr., recently returned home from a seven-month deployment to the Persian Gulf with the aircraft carrier USS Truman in Virginia Beach, Va. ...more

August 6, 2008