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In the infantry, troops sustain injuries every single day — from little bumps and bruises to breaking random bones. Since the nature of an infantryman's work means using lethal force against an enemy, training a grunt to be a badass …

Whether it's salt tossed over the shoulder after the shaker is spilled or not walking under a ladder, most superstitions are pretty harmless. But sometimes superstitions cause Communist rebels to abandon their camp or a revered Navy admiral to r…

The Constitution (Article II, Section 2, Clause 1) gives American presidents the power to grant full pardons. Throughout history, presidents have used this power, some more than others. Presidents Harrison and Garfield issued zero pardons, mostly b…

From May 26 to Jun. 4, 1940, one of the largest evacuations in human history saved approximately 338,000 Allied troops and gave the Allies the strength to continue resisting Adolph Hitler's Third Reich. The operation was more successful …

Military test pilots are a rare breed, undertaking the responsibility of flying new aircraft to their design limits . . . and then beyond.  In his classic book The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe puts it this way:

Here are 6 times American tank units found themselves massively fighting it out with enemy armor: 1. Battle of the Bulge

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, more than 2,000 people go missing throughout the U.S. every day. Many of those innocent individuals are taken fro…

If you think that troops marched at each other with muskets and rifles in the Civil War because they were too dumb to maneuver, you're dead wrong. Civil War formations were the pinnacle of strategy at the time, allowing commanders to bring maximum …

History remembers Capt. Jay Zeamer as a tremendous pilot, but he had a rough time getting into the cockpit. Originally commissioned in the Infantry Reserve, he later transferred to the Army Air Corps to fulfill his dream of flying. There …