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President Theodore Roosevelt formed the Boone and Crockett Club and many other conservation organizations because of his love of all things natural. In the 1870s, fishing and hunting …

Shaw Air Force Base is known by those stationed there as Separates Husbands And Wives. Between the Red Flags at Nellis, the endless human centipede of exercises, and a deployment, my husband Mike was gone over half of ou…

It's a bitter-sweet day when troops leave the service. It's fantastic because one book closes and another opens. Yet saying goodbye to the gang you served with is hard. Vets always keep in contact with their guys, but it's not the same when the…

Joe Angelo was a World War I veteran who served in the Army during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. This is where he would unknowingly make a significant contribution to World War II. That's not a typo. Angelo was an orderly to the 30…

When Egypt bought the two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships that France declined to sell to Russia, one thing that didn't come with those vessels was the armament. According to the "16th Edition of Combat Fleets of the World," Rus…

If you know anything about Marines, you know that we've built up one h*** of a reputation over the past 243 years. Whether it's destroying our enemies or our profound capability to drink an

America has 50 attack submarines in active service designed to tail and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships. China and Russia have dozens more.Strangely enough, only one submarine battle has been fought underwater in over 100 years o…

When retelling stories of war, our focus tends to fall where the action was. Tales of battlefield bravery have been around for as long as there has been language and battlefields, but securing victory over a powerful foe requires more than the stren…

William Meade Lindsley Fiske III was born in Chicago in 1911. The son of a wealthy New England banker, Fiske attended school in Chicago before moving to France in 1924. It was there that he developed his love of winter sports; especially bobsled.

If the Empire ever makes it here from its galaxy far, far away, America is going to be in a tough pickle. And the Empire has already had a long time to get here. So what would it look like if the Empire landed one of its most feared vehic…

It's been 75 years since the launch of Operation Market Garden – the World War II mission to secure key bridges across Belgium and the Netherlands while pushing an Allied advance over the Rhine into Germany and ending the war in Europe by Christm…

Bowe Bergdahl was Pfc. Bergdahl when he walked off his post in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, and was captured by the Taliban…

In 1999, a U.S. Army World War II veteran applied for his Social Security pension. There would have been nothing out of the ordinary for any other vet down on his luck. He knew that any veteran of WWII was able to apply at the Social Security office…

Soon after America set off its largest-ever nuclear blast on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, one of the scientists behind the weapon's design aimed for something even bigger: a 10,000-megaton blast that would've been 670,000 times as powerful as the …