Military

In a final act of loyalty, Hawkeye, the dog of slain Navy SEAL U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Jon T. Tumilson walked up to his fallen master's casket during the funeral in Rockford, Iowa, and then laid mournfully down beside the body for the rest of the proceedings.

The military has banned Marines serving in Afghanistan from emitting audible farts, as such gastrointestinal expressions offend the Afghan people.

Marine Sgt. Jacob Chadwick, 23, an Iraq war veteran who recently underwent a life-saving kidney transplant, received the organ from an unexpected source -- 24-year-old fellow soldier Lt. Patrick Wayland. The two men didn't know each other, but after Wayland suffered a fatal heart attack while swimming in flight gear during training on August 1, Wayland's family sought out the people it felt was &q

In recent weeks, we've seen several US servicemembers use YouTube to invite celebrities to accompany them to the upcoming Marine Corps Ball. First Sgt. Scott Moore asked Mila Kunis, then Cpl. Kelsey De Santis asked Kunis' 'Friends with Benefits' co-star Justin Timberlake, and finally Sgt. Ray Lewis asked everyone's favorite octogenarian, Betty White.

The Marine Corps Ball may be getting even more star power. After both Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake accepted invitations to accompany Marines to the November 10 event, Sgt. Ray Lewis, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is hoping Betty White makes it a celebrity trifecta. Lewis posted a video on YouTube in which he asks the 89-year-old 'Hot in Cleveland' actress to be his date, plead