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In the first Democratic Primary debate of 2015, former Senator Jim Webb, a Marine who served in Vietnam, was asked about the enemies he made in his political career of whom he's most proud. Webb alluded to a Vietnamese solider who threw a grenade…
Requirements officers at the Pentagon and defense companies like to tout the "beyond visual range" capabilities of modern aircraft. On paper, these days a pilot could earn ace status and never see his or her opponents. However, air wars…
Everyone knows about John Glenn, either as an astronaut (the last survivor of the "Mercury Seven") or politician (he was a United States Senator from 1975 to 1999). Few know, however, that John Glenn had a lengthy combat career as a Mar…
Secretary of War Henry Knox was a hero of the American Revolution. Too bad he was a huge blue falcon.
In 2009, during some of the heaviest fighting of Operation Enduring Freedom, the Marine Corps was involved in a number of operations in western Iraq. However, things got tougher as Taliban lookouts were typically posted to provide a warning of the L…
Not all military jobs are created equal. Some are dangerous, some are highly technical, and most fall somewhere in between. Here are the 6 brainiest enlisted military jobs (in terms of
Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Lewis "Chesty" Puller is probably known best for his legendary actions in World War II where he led Marines at Guadalcanal and in Korea when he and his men broke out from the Chosin Reservoir. But Puller originally…
Coast Guard Signalman Ray Evans was a legend in World War II who drew machine gun fire from Japanese soldiers while pulling Chesty Puller's Marines out of a hairy situation on Guadalcanal in 1942. The Navy awarded him a Navy Cross, but Vice Adm. Jo…
It should have been called "MiG Graveyard."
Desert One was a disaster amid a tragedy.
