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Blake Stilwell is a traveler and writer with degrees in design, television & film, journalism, public relations, international relations, and business administration. He is a former combat photographer with experience in politics, entertainment, development, nonprofit, military, and government. His career includes work in Business Insider, Fox News, ABC News, NBC, HBO, and the White House.
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These are the Navy’s rules for being buried at sea
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What it was like to survive being scalped by native warriors
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This aerial gunner was one of the only US aviators to be buried at sea inside his aircraft
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Why Australian special forces spent 10 days in Vietnam without saying a word
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Memes showing how it feels to get your DD-214
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An Army officer was why Teddy Roosevelt had to quit boxing
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This U.S. Marine went to Somalia and became a warlord
Jul 17, 2020 9:50 PM PDT
This is why no one uses water-cooled machine guns anymore
Jun 10, 2022 6:27 PM PDT
Why World War II veterans are returning captured Japanese flags
Jul 2, 2021 11:45 PM PDT
The US Navy built 12 concrete ships for World War I
Sep 3, 2021 8:06 AM PDT
5 cocktails with military origins
Apr 2, 2021 12:49 AM PDT
5 special benefits reserved for Purple Heart recipients
Dec 19, 2021 6:10 AM PST
This is how to see if you would have been drafted for Vietnam
Sep 3, 2021 2:19 AM PDT
The ‘Survivor Tree’ is the only living thing to come out of the 9/11 rubble
Apr 29, 2020 3:48 PM PDT
11 ways people dodged the Vietnam draft
Apr 2, 2021 1:10 AM PDT
This is why US troops didn’t use drum magazines in Tommy Guns
Jan 2, 2022 3:48 AM PST
Viking raiders gave each other these hilarious nicknames
Nov 6, 2022 5:35 AM PDT
The world’s 7 goofiest-looking military uniforms
Apr 29, 2020 3:54 PM PDT
The real story of Jane Fonda and the Vietnam vets who hate her
Jan 17, 2022 6:58 AM PST
This is why Saddam Hussein’s Fedayeen troops wore Darth Vader helmets
Oct 17, 2021 4:45 AM PDT
That time Elvis’ combat training took down Alice Cooper
Mar 9, 2021 6:38 PM PST
The best A-10 memes on the Internet
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The FBI had evidence Hitler might have escaped the Red Army and fled to Argentina
Oct 17, 2022 5:29 AM PDT
5 little-known facts about R. Lee Ermey, the military’s favorite gunny
Jul 9, 2022 2:35 AM PDT
How an addict became a Navy SEAL and a nightmare for the Taliban
Apr 29, 2020 3:41 PM PDT
The 8 biggest differences between military and civilian prison
Jan 17, 2022 6:56 AM PST
A veteran stole a Patton tank and went on a rampage in 1995
Mar 19, 2021 3:47 AM PDT
This is why the military gives male recruits a buzz cut
Jul 10, 2021 11:47 PM PDT
The truth behind basic training ‘Stress Cards’
Sep 3, 2021 8:07 AM PDT
Ross Perot pulled off one of the greatest Army-Navy Game pranks ever
Apr 29, 2020 4:01 PM PDT
4 awesome traditions to look for at the Army-Navy Game
Dec 11, 2021 11:49 AM PST
This is why players in the Army-Navy Game learn to sing their rival’s alma mater
Dec 10, 2021 5:28 AM PST
7 cool things that happen during the Army-Navy Game
Dec 10, 2021 5:30 AM PST
This famous son of a mobster was also a West Point grad
Apr 29, 2020 3:52 PM PDT
These 6 Revolutionary War veterans survived long enough to be photographed
Oct 17, 2022 5:28 AM PDT
How a sailor remembered 250 prisoners of war through song
Dec 15, 2021 9:01 AM PST
27 times the Commander-in-Chief visited a combat zone
Mar 19, 2021 8:05 AM PDT
This is how US troops came to be called GIs
Oct 14, 2022 6:11 AM PDT
The ultra-rare Marine Corps dress uniform accessory you may never see
Nov 10, 2022 5:18 AM PST
Here are all the famous people who died at the Alamo
Jun 28, 2021 11:56 PM PDT
Union troops changed the words to ‘Dixie’ to make fun of the South
Apr 29, 2020 3:54 PM PDT
These are the 9 general officers who have earned 5 stars
Jan 28, 2019 6:39 PM PST
The CIA secretly created an undetectable ‘heart attack gun’
Aug 15, 2021 11:03 PM PDT
The best and worst Air Force uniforms, ranked
Oct 25, 2021 4:30 AM PDT
The 6 rations troops are thankful the military got rid of
Nov 25, 2021 3:45 AM PST
Until 1989 turkeys came to the White House to be eaten, not pardoned
Nov 25, 2021 3:30 AM PST
5 Old-time celebrity favorites who wanted to join the OSS
Nov 12, 2022 5:39 AM PST
That time ocean liners fought an old-time naval battle
Nov 12, 2022 5:38 AM PST
This Coast Guardsman saved a Navy base during the Vietnam War
Nov 8, 2022 4:18 AM PST
This is how Vietnam almost became a protectorate of the US
Nov 7, 2022 5:15 AM PST
This mayor saved his town by drinking three liters of wine at once
Nov 6, 2022 5:36 AM PDT
This is the Communists’ perfectly-bred military working dog
Nov 5, 2022 6:04 AM PDT