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The Glock 17 is often erroneously thought of as the world's first plastic pistol. While it popularized plastics, it wasn't the first.

In December, Congress included a passage in the NDAA that named Ulysses S. Grant as the third-ever General of the Armies.

Alongside the prototype tanks, the decoy corpses, and baseball legends driving experimental weapons, Britain deployed radar jamming on D-Day.

The Air Force helped fund research into light-scattering white paint that could make it much easier to cool hangars and barracks.

Be advised that choosing a Navy Strength gin over a more common label will give your tonic a potent kick.

A Confederate saboteur conducted a bombing at City Point, Virginia that completely destroyed two barges and a warehouse.

One member of the House of Representatives, has no trouble at all thinking of what to do to Russia: Make Privateering Great Again.

President Abraham Lincoln went on a battlefield tour in March 1865 and ended up near a Confederate surprise attack that, luckily, failed.

Between 1972 and 2000, Richard Davis shot himself more than 190 times. He would later be the first to use Kevlar in body armor.

Stories involving Vietnam’s rivers and the "Gentle Giant" should include what happened under the surface of the water.

Thousands of Russian troops almost fought the American Revolution in 1780, but the British approached the Hessians for spare troops instead.

210 years after its founding, Watervliet is churning out gun barrels to support Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion.

The battle of Wanat began in the early morning hours of July 13, 2008. That’s when Taliban insurgents launched a coordinated attack.

When the Korean War started, victory was far but assured. But on July 27, 1953, the war ended in armistice after three years of fighting.

On July 26, 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was founded, though it wouldn’t be called that until 1935.

Since the first successful aerial refueling, the Air Force has mastered the art and used it to project air power for 100 years.

Decades after they went missing in Vietnam, Col. Ernest Leo De Soto and Capt. Frederick Mervyn Hall were finally accounted for.

Considering how much power the best military movies have, you would think they'd be up for an Oscar. You’d be wrong.

With Ukraine in an all-out war, the chaplain corps had to grow. Air National Guard Chaplain (Capt.) Vladimir Marius Steliac is helping.

John Henry Turpin was a Black sailor working as a mess attendant. He’d only been in the Navy for two years when the USS Maine exploded.