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During the Cold War, the U.S. faced the very real possibility they'd have to rush masses of troops to the front line but wasn't sure where the front line would open up. While the more obvious places like the Fulda Gap or Checkpoint Charlie had tro…

Specialists in the Army are known as the E-4 Mafia. The rank insignia they wear — shaped like a shield — is known as the sham shield because members of the mafia are guaranteed to sham off of work at every opportunity. To see how they escape the…

The Marines on Wake Island had a last stand that belongs with the Alamo in terms of its legendary status. One Marine,

The French Foreign Legion is one of France's elite fighting forces, filled with men who are ready and willing to do extreme violence on France's behalf. When 1930s Germany started looking at its neighbors with greedy eyes, it knew that it had to d…

North Korea might be a little provocative these days but the 1960's DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name), was the annoying middle child of international Communism. The 60's were an important decad…