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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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Why Okinawa is the most haunted place in the military
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George Custer’s younger brother earned two Medals of Honor in the same week
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This is why Fidel Castro froze the body of an American airman
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This soldier used his teeth as bullets to attack Turkish invaders
Oct 23, 2021 5:00 AM PDT
4 times the Iranian navy got beat down in the Persian Gulf
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A North Vietnamese soldier hid in the jungle for 40 years
Oct 18, 2021 4:00 AM PDT
What it is like for women in the North Korean military
Oct 18, 2021 3:45 AM PDT
The northernmost Confederate attack was a raid on Vermont
Oct 17, 2021 5:00 AM PDT
How a destroyer won a World War II battle with only potatoes
Oct 16, 2022 6:06 AM PDT
These pistols are carried by NCOs at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Oct 16, 2022 6:04 AM PDT
That time an entire Italian regiment surrendered to one pilot
Oct 16, 2022 6:03 AM PDT
One woman wrote 25,000 letters for wounded soldiers who couldn’t
Oct 16, 2022 6:01 AM PDT
This is what a silencer for howitzers looks like
Dec 14, 2021 5:32 AM PST
Now we know why Kim Jong-un killed his brother
Apr 29, 2020 3:51 PM PDT
The conspiracy theory of the underground war between Green Berets and aliens
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These 9 weapons are banned from modern warfare
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A Marine vet made a daring beer run to Vietnam for his buddies
May 25, 2022 5:33 AM PDT
This secret Russian weapon turned out to be harmless bee poop
Oct 3, 2022 5:41 AM PDT
The president is forbidden from going to the top of a major US monument
Sep 28, 2022 5:21 AM PDT
The DoD has its own brownie recipe and it’s 26 pages long
Sep 29, 2022 5:24 AM PDT
Why Brazil’s World War II force had the best unit patch
Sep 29, 2022 5:23 AM PDT
11 things I learned about Star Trek after enlisting in the military
Sep 25, 2022 6:40 AM PDT
4 times armies blasted music to intimidate and infuriate their enemies
Sep 24, 2022 6:09 AM PDT
This Crow GI became the last Indian War Chief during World War II
Sep 24, 2022 6:08 AM PDT
This Royal Marine threw himself on a grenade – and walked away with a nosebleed
Sep 24, 2022 6:07 AM PDT
5 fastest military aircraft in service today
Apr 29, 2020 3:52 PM PDT
4 real things Vietnam vets experienced that you won’t see in movies
Sep 17, 2022 5:18 AM PDT
6 urban legends about Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Sep 3, 2022 5:55 AM PDT
How French special forces rescued the holiest site in Islam
Aug 28, 2022 5:32 AM PDT
These 17 hilarious reviews of MREs from troops in the field will bring back memories
Aug 22, 2022 4:27 AM PDT
This is the most decorated enlisted sailor in US military history
Aug 21, 2022 5:53 AM PDT
Military officers in WWI were the masters of the word ‘f**k’
Aug 19, 2022 1:22 PM PDT
George Washington was voted Britain’s ‘Greatest Enemy Commander’
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The ‘Prisoner Exchange’ is the coolest Army-Navy tradition no one talks about
Dec 10, 2021 5:30 AM PST
The CIA once hired prostitutes to test LSD on unsuspecting civilians
Aug 17, 2022 5:28 AM PDT
These are the slave soldiers that defeated the Mongols
Jan 11, 2022 5:32 AM PST
Your handy viewing guide to military episodes of The Simpsons
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This is how WW2 Marines made ice cream at 30,000 feet
Jun 17, 2022 6:23 AM PDT
This is the only country in South America to send troops to the Korean War
Jun 25, 2022 5:49 AM PDT
That time Richard Nixon almost sparked an invasion of Venezuela
Jul 3, 2022 5:52 AM PDT
Marines stole the spotlight from the National Guard in the LA Riots
Jul 3, 2022 5:52 AM PDT
5 ways Russia trolled the US on July 4th
Jul 3, 2022 8:28 PM PDT
3 of the stupidest wars ever fought in world history
Jul 11, 2022 5:12 AM PDT
How a civilian aircraft in distress set a world glider record
Aug 14, 2022 6:28 AM PDT
The last shots of the American Civil War were fired in Russia
Aug 11, 2022 5:24 AM PDT
How ‘having guts’ actually meant being an able US troop
Aug 10, 2022 4:17 AM PDT
The first man killed in the Vietnam War was murdered by a fellow airman
Aug 10, 2022 4:16 AM PDT
These British troops claimed to be rescued by angels in WWI
Aug 9, 2022 6:19 AM PDT