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Troops today love to liken themselves to the warfighters of old — Spartans, crusaders, knights, pirates, or whatever else. It helps our troops buy into the classic warrior mentality and it makes us feel more badass. When it comes to U.S. Marines…
Throughout the history of combined arms, artillery has played a key role in supporting the infantry. Commanders laying siege to fortified cities would call upon their engineers to identify weak points in defensive walls. Resources and manpower were …
The Stinger missile is America's premier short-range air defense weapon, featuring in-flight guidance and an almost 7-pound warhead that sends shrapnel ripping through planes, helicopters, and pretty much anything else flying low. It can even be sh…
One of America's longest-serving retailers is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. While this doesn't mark the end of the 130-year-old retailer, it doesn't exactly bode well for its future, either. With 700 just over Sears and K-Mart stor…
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines irony as the following: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result. It's like being run over by an ambulance that's on its way to save you — inst…
When Hurricane Michael hit Florida as a Category 4 storm, it was a historical record — and it just happened to land a direct hit on a major U.S. Air Force base, Tyndall. Unfortunately for American warfighters and taxpayers, some of the Air Force'…
Much like a trustworthy chain of command, realism in video games is hard to find. Battlefield comes close, but it's still got a few too many 360-no-scopes to get us there. That's where a game like Post Scriptum, a WWII-themed, fi…
Michael Myers is once again on the hunt for Laurie Strode in Halloween, the 40-year sequel that confusingly shares its title with the original film. And before you head to the theater to witness Myers
Most troops and vets know very little about what the Coast Guard actually does. They're often seen as either the "Navy National Guard" or as a bunch of puddle pirates trying to pretend like they're one of the cool, DoD kids. Yeah, sure; w…
If you enjoy one of the saddest best shows currently on broadcast television, then you're in for a good cry treat — NBC's This Is Us is exploring the background of one of its central characters, J…
In 1775, the Royal Navy sent a fleet to Falmouth, Maine, the site of modern-day Portland, and rained heated shells down on it for eight hours, burning nearly the entire town to the ground — but also pouring tinder onto the burgeoning flames of Ame…
It doesn't seem like much. It's just a spool of metal wiring, dotted with small, sharp, evenly-dispersed bits. If you happened upon some of it strewn across the ground, you could maneuver around the teeth fairly easily and make your way through, u…
The USS Missouri has been described as the most famous battleship ever built.Nickn…
There's no better way to do sports analysis than by covering the league like a fan. And if that's actually true, then there's no better NFL analyst than comedian and Marine Corps veteran Rob Riggle. Every week, Riggle does a sketch com…
Critics who say the Pentagon doesn't give the press enough briefings had their prayers answered — even if they didn't necessarily get their questions answered. On Oct. 15, the Pentagon gave a presser led by actor Gerard Butler. If you k…
President Vladimir Putin hailed new missiles in Russia's military arsenals but emphasized Oct. 18, 2018, that the country would only use its nuclear weapons in response to an incoming missile attack.Putin emphasized during an international p…
Women have played a part in war and the military ever since the birth of our nation, whether it be disguising themselves as men to secretly join the Army during the Civil War, tending to the wounded on the battlefield as nurses in WWII, or, more rec…
Each branch of the United States Armed Forces has their own elite troop, proficient in using a sniper rifle — and the Coast Guard is no different. Surprised? You're not alone. One of the only times troops sing their praises is when they "come ou…
Making a military recruitment video is a challenge. In a single television spot, you have to convince someone to make the life-altering choice to enlist in their nation's military. America, traditionally, has always put out a true and tested messag…
In the military, everyone loves to compare their job with others as part of a pissing contest to see who has it worst. Some cite their terrible living conditions, others tell horror stories of intense training, and the rest point to the awful, borin…