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[brid video="116494" player="7965" title="War Ink My Chuck Taylors Are In Heaven"]Noah Bailey was an Army specialist serving as an M2 .50 cal. gunner in an Army scout sniper platoon when the Humvee he was patrolling in was struck by an IED.

[brid video="115910" player="7965" title="War Ink Doc"]Navy Corpsman Joel Booth's main goal in Afghanistan was to earn the respect of the Marines he was assigned to serve; he wanted to be the best 'doc' he could be. Booth gained their ad…

While the U.S. was lucky to fight World War II away from its shores, that meant it had to move massive amounts of supplies across the ocean. With German submarines sinking American vessels and shipyards busy rebuilding the fleet after the…

Since 1775, the United States Marine Corps has courageously fought in every climate and every place where they could take a rifle. Known for being "the f…

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Obviously, video games are nothing like the real world. No one is going to give you 100 gold coins to go clear a bunch of rats out of a dungeon and no one is impressed by your ability to roll on the ground to get places faster. Where this div…

If you look at the enlisted ranking system put in place by every branch of the United States Armed Forces, everything makes a good deal of sense. You start at the bottom — generally at E-1, but there are ways to get in at a higher pay grade — an…

Cpl. of Horse Craig Harrison set the world record for a sniper kill twice in November of 2009 while serving in Afghanistan.  Near the end of a three-hour firefight between British forces and Taliban insurgents he spotted the machine gun …

After troops from various militaries around the world finish their time in service, they turn their gear in, finalize their paperwork, and hang up their uniform for good. Swiss soldiers, however, can skip that last visit to the arms room and walk ou…

The sailors assigned to the commands around Yokosuka, Japan know about high optempo. The units assigned to Forward Deployed Naval Forces Japan are either on deployment or working up for deployment. But with limited liberty time, the sail…

As a member of Security Forces, the Air Force's version of military police, I've heard and witnessed many an interesting tale while patrolling our nation's bases. Very few of those, however, even begin to approach some of the outlandish "excuses…

With a 68-ton armored vehicle packing a 120mm cannon, U.S. Army tankers can take the fight to the enemy in just about any environment. Tankers consider themselves part of a brotherhood with roots in World War I. Now driving the M1 Ab…