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Imagine turning the key to start the end of the world with a co-worker you may or may not actually like. That's the job of U.S. Air Force Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Crews. There's a good chance that after they launch their missiles, an ene…

The USS America was a Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier first built in the 1960s and served through the Vietnam War, Cold War clashes, and on into Desert Storm. Decommissioned in 1996, the Navy decided the ship's best post-service use was as a…

After forty years of sanctions and arms embargoes, Iran's air force has slowly become an eclectic mishmash of aging platforms sourced through various channels. If war were to break out between Iran and the United States today, U.S. pilots would fin…

Before the Civil War, Robert E. Lee's mansion was part of a Virginia estate on the Potomac River, across from the nation's capital. It was…

The idea of winning hearts and minds dates back decades. Higher command believes that if allied forces do favors for and give material gifts to the enemy, they'll be influenced by the acts of kindness and, perhaps, change their way of th…

Sometimes, the greatest source of frustration is your fellow recruits. They tend to do stupid sh*t and the great lengths they go to keep their own hands clean may result in everyone else's getting dirty.Boot camp is absolute hell when yo…

The Central Issuing Facility loans plenty of great and not-so-great items to the troops. Many pieces of gear, like the load-bearing vest and the elbow pads, were tossed back with no remorse, but others are just too damn useful to part with.

It's just about here - the sequel aviation and military buffs have been patiently waiting for."Top Gun: Maverick" was supposed to fly onto the big screen in July but was pushed back to December due to COVID-19. The sequel with Tom Crui…

The landings on D-Day have become iconic in the minds of many people who think about World War II in Europe. But the landings at Normandy were not the only invasion of France that the Allies carried out. There was a second invasion – and it is not…

Sylvester Stallone has been a role model for generations of men. He taught men how to box, how to fire a bow and most importantly, how to train abs. For me, the scene I still dream about to this day comes from that film where Sly single-handedly end…

A user on Quora asked the following question: "Do some troops really wear ball caps and berets into combat instead of helmets? Why?" It might sound surprising, but the answer is actually yes, yes sometimes they do.It seems counteri…

Often dubbed the "Second Pearl Harbor," the West Loch disaster in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, saw six large landing ships explode, burn, and sink on May 21, 1944, after their cargoes of ammunition and fuel caught fire. The LSTs were moored in a large fo…

An F-16 pilot flying over ISIS-held territory in 2015 suffered a malfunction of his fuel system and would have been forced to bail out if it weren't for a KC-135 Stratotanker crew that offered to escort the jet home, the Air Force said in a press r…

Or...licences. With a C. Because they're British. In any case, it's probably the coolest thing any movie spy was ever issued. James Bond, with his "00" designation has one, and maybe a whole handful of real-world MI6 agents do too —…

If there's one complaint common across the military, it's that commanders too often care more about their careers than the well-being of their troops. It's problematic when higher-ups are willing to put lower enlisted through hell if it means the…

There are few higher compliments for a soldier than when the General of the Armies calls him the most outstanding soldier who fought in an entire war – and the war to end all wars, no less. But Samuel Woodfill wasn't just a veteran of World War I…