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While troops endure weeks and weeks of intense training to prepare them for patrolling through the enemy's backyard, it's tough to learn all the "do's and don't's" of combat. There's so much training concentrated on combat effecti…
When you think of airborne troops, there's one unit that comes to mind because of its place in both history books and pop culture: the 101st Airborne Division. Nearly every major World War II film features — or at least mentions — the bravery a…
When a soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine is wounded, the clock starts ticking on the "golden hour" to save his or her life. The goal the Department of Defense had in the War on Terror was to get a wounded serviceman to definitive care within 60 m…
You're 11 years old, standing in the middle of the school lunchroom with your meal tray. As you gaze over top of your sandwich, anemic vegetables, and cookie snack pack, you anxiously wonder who will make room for y…
Over the course of the past two wars, Marines learned a lot of lessons and gained a lot of new weapons and equipment to increase their effectiveness on the modern battlefield. But when we started to realize just how outdated the M249 Squad Automatic…
The Vought F4U Corsair was one of the best planes that took to the air during World War II. It also saw action in the Korean War and in the 1969 Soccer War. But while the plane took out a ton of Axis thugs and Commies, it also took out more than a f…
The Air Force gets a lot of flak (see what I did there?) from all the other branches for its somewhat lax persona. Yes, sometimes, the USAF seems more like a corporation than a branch of the Armed Forces. But despite decent food and living quarters,…
It seems almost routine in some DOD videos, but aerial refueling is a very dangerous process where a lot of things can go very wrong. It's really not very surprising that stuff can go wrong, when you think about what that procedure entails.
Germany introduced the world to the concept of blitzkrieg. One of the key elements to this strategy is to have a force of tanks and mechanized infantry strike deeply and (relatively) quickly behind enemy lines. This means that to successful…
It's one of the coolest moments in medieval fantasy films. A blacksmith sweats over the forge, slowly pouring bright-orange, molten iron into an open-topped stone mold of a mighty sword while the audience watches a cool shot of the weapon taking sh…
The forced abdication of the Russian Tsar Nicolas II in 1917 sparked a civil war between the Bolshevik "Red" army fighting for Communism and various factions known as the "White" army, generally fighting against the Communists. In an effor…
Dictators are colorful people, to put it mildly. It must be something about being constantly alone, maybe being a little paranoid all the time, or maybe they just get on a non-stop high from absolute power. Hitler thought eating meat was …
There are things common to the military no matter what branch a service-member joins, and they often extend outside the front gate of the installation. Whether in the Air Force or the Army, troops can count on regulations sometimes makin…
Throughout the U.S. military's long and storied history, there have been many different tasks that could only be completed by troops in specific, highly-trained roles. These military occupations and ratings were once critical to the fight …
For service members, being captured and interrogated by the enemy is nightmare scenario no matter how you slice it. And for some — particularly special operations forces and aviators who fly well behind enemy lines — there's a good e…
In 1986, Paramount released Top Gun, story about a hotshot Naval aviator named "Maverick" who had some extreme daddy issues. The film was action-packed with awesome dogfights and a classic rivalry.Did you ever wonder how differ…
Most of us feel on top of the world after we graduate from boot camp. After spending several weeks being yelled at and told what to do every second of the day, you think you're now finally free. Now that you've learned how to make your …
