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The Navy tends to be very strict when people recover items from sunken wrecks. In fact, when an Enigma machine was taken from the wreck of U-85,…

The SR-71 Blackbird is an awesome plane. But did you know that it could have been even more awesome than it was? The Air Force was planning to make a fighter version of the plane.

In 1966, the Marines in Vietnam found themselves with an unusual opportunity – to turn the tables on the enemy. This came by way of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese defectors who were willing to be retrained to work and fight with America…

The profession of arms deals in death, no matter how we like to think of our daily military lives. No matter what your military speciality is, you're helping that end. If you're a cook, you feed warfighters who are out there dealing death. If you …

Winter is coming... but first, there's Halloween. It's the season of costumes, jack-o-lanterns, and horror. So, while plenty of people are going to paste themselves in front of TVs to watch a few Halloween classics, the rest of us are grabbing con…

There's one rule that every branch knows of: keep your hands out of your pockets while you're in uniform. And yet, here we are. Eve…

In June 1919, the bulk of the German High Seas Fleet was sitting at anchor at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. The cruiser Emden sent out the message, "Paragraph 11; confirm." Then, all 74 of the warships in the natural harbor attempte…

U-boats were still in their infancy in 1914, and most naval officers looked down on the fleet. At best, they were considered defensive weapons that could help hold an enemy fleet away from the coasts. But then, on Sept. 22, 1914,

Almost a year before America was attacked at Pearl Harbor and officially joined World war II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent his top aide to London to promise aid to Prime Minister Winston Churchill with a slightly amended Bible quote. This wa…

If you mess up just one glorious time in the U.S. military, your friends and peers will never let you forget it. It's always been this way, even in World War II. From November 1943 until she was lost in 1945, the destroyer USS William D. Porter…

Master Sergeant George Hand US Army (ret) was a member of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, The Delta Force. He is a now a master photographer, cartoonist and storyteller.It was 1994 when my Delta Troop and I were …

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