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For as long as video games have existed, there have been fed-up mothers yelling at their kids to put down the controller and get back to their homework. As mom loves to remind us, "no one will ever pay you to play video games!" Well, we hate to di…
The Russian BMD series of airborne infantry fighting vehicles are really quite impressive. Both the BMD-1 and BMD-2 provided Soviet airborne troo…
It's always brought up as a fun fact that, at one point in history, Australia sent troops on an "all-out" assault against emus that were destroying the Western Australian Outback. A while later, it was decided that the humans wouldn't win and th…
The German Navy in World War II found a clever but risky method of extending their submarine patrols by building "milk cows," specialized submarines covered in fuel tanks to refuel their brethren, and drawing the fire of American destroyer and pla…
The Viking Age spanned from the sacking of the abbey on Lindisfarne in June, 793, and is generally accepted as ending with William the Conqueror's ascension to the English throne in 1066. The Norse traveled outward from Scandinavia, reaching everyw…
So, after sitting through weeks of military transition classes, you've decided, "screw it! I'll just turn to a life of crime!" Congrats! You're joining a long tradition — a tradition mostly limited to privateers in the 17th and 18th centuries…
Care packages are how troops stay connected with the ones they love back home. Most troops will have their family send them little trinkets or mama-made cookies to make things better while troops without families have their day brightened by a sweet…
When France asked Germany to open negotiations for an armistice and peace treaty during the Battle of France, Germany was quick to agree — but Hitler had one petty and symbolic gesture that he demanded be part of any negotiations.
The OV-10 Bronco had a long service career with the United States. It first saw action in Vietnam and stuck around through Desert Storm. Just a few years ago, the idea of
The High-Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle, best known as the Humvee, has been a mainstay of the United States Military for three decades, replacing the classic Jeeps. These vehicles are now giving way to the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, or JL…
DARPA has engineered a set of wheels that can turn into tracks while in motion in under two seconds. The Reconfigurable Wheel Track (RWT) allows vehicles to morph …
Over the past eight years, we've seen two reboots of some of our favorite T.V. shows from the last century: Hawaii Five-O and MacGyver. In September of this year, we're getting another, Magnum, P.I., and we think the vet…
Veterans and troops always have a go-to spot where they can enjoy themselves after hours. Oftentimes, it's a bar where they can unwind alongside buddies and take their minds off the stresses that come with military life, if only for a brief moment.…
This past week, the 65th anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement, saw the return of 55 troops' remains by the North Koreans to the United States. A U.S. Air Force C-17 flew into Wonsan, North Korea, to pick up the remains before returning the…
Unlike the United States, which threw at least a half-dozen outstanding fighters at the Axis in World War II (the F4F Wildcat, the F4U Corsair, the F6F Hellcat, the P-38 Lightning, the P-47 Thunderbolt, and the P-51 Mustang, just to name a few), Naz…
The 1943 Battle of Tarawa was the first of the Central Pacific Campaign. There, 18,000 Marines fought a bloody, 76-hour battle to seize the heavily fortified Tarawa Atoll from 4,500 Japanese defenders, wading through hundreds of yards of surf and sc…
The nation's highest medal for valor under enemy fire dates back over 150 years and has been awarded to well over 3,000 men and one woman in honor of heroic acts, including everything from stealing enemy trains to braving machine gun fire to pull c…
Just as the Army has been saying for almost thirty years, they are finally working out the details of what will be the replacement for the current push-ups/sit-ups/2-mile-run version of the Army Physical Fitness Test. For a quick primer on what the …
Every Apple user is inevitably faced with the terms of service. The vast majority of us will start to think about reading them, realize we're looking at a 56-page magnum opus of legalese and tiny print, and then just accept the fact that we're goi…
Video games way oversold the military. Shooter after shooter and strategy game after strategy game promised a career filled with Firebats and thermonuclear grenades, but the actual military turned out to be a lot of hard work using basic tools. Wher…