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John Wayne's self-funded masterpiece almost never happened.

Few units receive their nicknames from their exploits in combat. Even fewer derive their moniker from what the enemy calls them. But for the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment that is exactly what happened in Italy in 1944. The …

Whenever soldiers go on leave, it always plays out exactly the same: "O! You're in the Army? My friend from work's brother is in the Navy, so I know allllllll about it..." This is followed by a in-depth one-sided discussion abo…

Marine infantrymen thrive on hardship. Whether it's training and deploying to austere environments, learning to do more with less, or figuring out how to catch Z's anywhere, grunt life is very different from the rest of the Marine Corps.

When troops deploy overseas to places like Iraq and Afghanistan, they usually get a pay increase thanks to combat and hazardous pay bonuses. And given that they are working longer days and away from most of the comforts of home, they usually save a …

Sergeant David Bleak was set to go out on a normal patrol. It was 1952 and the young medic was accompanying a U.S. Army recon patrol with the mission of probing Chinese defenses and capturing an enemy soldier for intel and interrogation. What he did…