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Forget business in the front, party in the rear. Iran is all business. There's no party around back. At least, not for the most American of all possible hairstyles: the mullet. The mullet is so American, in fact, that it's banned in Iran …
It was once the most heroic thing a soldier could do. They'd strap themselves up with the barest of combat essentials and jump out of the back of a perfectly good aircraft into uncertain danger — often ending up miles away from their intended dro…
Humans are superstitious. We tend to come up with all kinds of ways to justify certain things we don't fully understand. That same quality definitely has a home in military service. While some of these may seem ridiculous at first glance, there's …
At age 83, Marine Corps veteran William Cox stands and walks with the help of a cane. But for one day in November, 2017, he stood for hours without it, wearing his old uniform. It was the last act of a promise he made in 1968 to his best buddy in Vi…
The first official Captain Marvel trailer finally dropped, teasing one of Marvel's most anticipated new films — and its new hero, whom the president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, has touted as Marvel's most powerful yet. Needless to s…
One of the most legendary successes of the Royal Air Force in World War II was a bombing raid that was written off for decades as a largely symbolic victory, but was actually a technically challenging operation that choked Nazi industry in 1943 and …
Lots of people like to play a mind game that centers around one moral quandary: Would you kill baby Hitler? Yeah, it's Hitler, but it's also a baby... Hell, this same question was even jokingly debated during an episode of Superstore, whe…
The V-22 Osprey has a spotty safety record, costs twice as much as originally advertised, and has a cost-per-flight-hour higher than a B-1B Lancer or F-22 Raptor when including acquisition, modification, and maintenance costs. So, why are all four D…
Marguerite Higgins was a legend of the news media who went ashore with the Marines in the fifth wave at Red Beach at Inchon, South Korea, earning her the respect of ground-pounders and a Pulitzer Prize while allowing the general public to understand…
It's an inevitability for every veteran once they're out and making friends in the civilian world. Eventually, you'll hear about one of your of new friend's grandiose plan to go out into nature for the weekend to go camping with family and frien…
When Japanese planes swept Pearl Harbor in the December, 1941, surprise attack that took America into World War II, there were very few U.S. troops able to fight back in any meaningful way. That doesn't mean resistance was minimal. Once the nature …
American troops are obsessed with coffee. If there's a military unit whose coffee pot isn't the hardest-working machine in the building, I haven't seen it. It doesn't seem to matter how good or bad the coffee is (even though good coffee is prefe…
A sense of dread washes over the company as the most recent version of the duty roster gets posted in the common area. The troops shuffle toward the single piece of paper while crossing their fingers, hoping that their name hasn't been called. But …
Alcohol is a staple of military culture and troops have been consuming it en masse since the first sailor left port for lands unknown. But as times have changed, so, too, have the rules of consumption. Since the good ol' days, the rules fo…
Look, this whole article is basically a rant written because we're getting tired of seeing comments about this every time we talk about NASA and/or Roscosmos. Somewhere in the comments on those articles, on our videos, or really anywhere across the…
The U.S. Coast Guard has served in every American war since the Revolution, but there was a major shift between World War II and Korea, thanks in part to the critical peacetime role the Coast Guard had assumed in 1946: training and preparing the Sou…
During the famous rescue of navigator "Bat 21 Bravo," a U.S. and a Vietnamese Navy SEAL took the lead role in a dangerous operation behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War, rescuing two aviators with no friendly losses despite running into enemy…
For decades, the American Dream has been something not just sought out by Americans, but imagined by countless people around the world. It represents the chance to seize opportunity and a better life by elevating oneself through the fruits of their …
The single most cherished item that Uncle Sam has given its fighting men and women since the Vietnam War has got to be the poncho liner or, as it's affectionately known within the military community as, the "woobie." It shouldn't come as a surpr…
Chaplains are some of the most misunderstood troops in the formation. While they're exempt from the minor stresses of the military, like going to the range or pointless details, they're not above doing the one thing every troop is expected to do: …