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If there's one accessory that's become synonymous with the post-9/11 generation of troops, it has to be the nonsensical PT belt. It's that bright, neon green, reflective band that you see wrapped around every troop when they go out for a jog.…

Over the years, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has graduated thousands of officers who have gone on to do great things with their lives. Two Presidents of the United States and 75 Medal of Honor recipients are West Pointers. But no single…

Military designers and the countries they work for have always sought to outdo one another on the battlefield, and creating massive artillery pieces has been no exception. Though there have been many extremely large artillery pieces manufactured, an…

On an undisclosed night in 1959 or 1960, four CIA agents grabbed their cameras, stripped off their shoes, and climbed into the sexiest thing to ever come out of Soviet Russia during the Cold War: the Luna. When the night was over, the So…

The rise of television has brought epic, cinematic stories to home screens, where episodic series can develop characters and plot steadily over a season and build suspense for the exciting climax in ways only film used to do — especially when it c…

During Desert Storm, the USS Theodore Roosevelt was on high alert. Petty Officers JD Bridges and Michael McDonald were prepping an A-6 Intruder fighter jet before takeoff. It was business as usual. Mere seconds before the jet will sped d…

The American War of Independence, as the British like to call it, was the the rebels' war to lose. With the superior military and economy of Britain, many expecte…

Imagine Adolf Hitler's top Nazi commando – a Waffen SS officer who helped implement Germany's "Final Solution" – walking among the trees and photos of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holoc…

Mary Walker, the only woman to be issued a Medal of Honor, is about to get some prime-time coverage, thanks in part to a graphic novel series produced by the Association of the U.S. Army. The latest edition of "Medal of Honor," shines a light on t…

Update: This story was corrected to reflect that Byers was a Special Operations Combat Medic. U.S. Navy Hospital corpsmen are part of a tradition that predates the American Navy itself. In the age of sail, corpsmen (then…

Army Cpl. Tibor Rubin was not the average soldier in the Korean War. The Hungarian Jew was a survivor of the Third Reich's concentration camps who pledged to join the Army if he ever made it to America. He made it to the U.S., jo…

Tolkan died in March 2026 at the age of 94.

Army Pvt. James S. Bumgarner met a North Korean patrol during the evening of April 23, 1951, during the early stages of the Korean War. You probably know him better as actor James Garner, star of The Rockford Files, 

If you spend any time at all in the military after passing basic training, chances are good that you're going to end up in a bar with members of your unit. Chances are very good that one of those evenings will involve karaoke. Karao…

The Allied invasion of Normandy was a challenge on a grand scale. Every single aspect of the plan drew new challenges for commanders. Luckily, the greatest military minds of the day were leading the Allied forces. They came up with some ingenious so…