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Los Angeles residents got a surprise this week when helicopters, ostensibly filled with Special Forces operators, began flying around the Los Angeles and Long Beach skylines, disgorging their fully armed passengers into parking lots while simulated …
It's one of the most persistent myths in the U.S. Military. I was even told it in basic training a mere 11 years ago, almost 90 years after the .50-caliber M2 was first designed. It goes like this: Weapons firing a .50-caliber round can be aimed at…
It's a difficult thing to heap praise on a Nazi, but with German businessman John Rabe, it's hard not to. Rabe was sent to Nanjing (then called Nanking) to work for the German corporation Siemens AG. There were many foreigners living in Nanking at…
For the first time ever, I find myself seriously considering buying Ranger panties. And not just buying them; wearing them to all sorts of events. These are about to be the centerpiece (and possibly only piece) of my Valentine's Day outfit. And it…
Crazy Horse's name will be remembered by history for ages to come, but, sadly, his face will not, as he refused to be photographed his entire life. The Oglala Lakota leader made his name famous by participating in the most legendary battles of the …
When Johnson Beharry was awarded the Victoria Cross, it was the first time a living soldier received the award in over 30 years. It's not an easy award to pick up, and perhaps Lance Sgt. Beharry should have died in Iraq – but he didn't.…
Before the days of the Iraq War made training to fight in urban centers a necessity, the Marine Corps was being proactive with the idea that the U.S. Military might have to capture some cities during a war. Urban combat exercises became a focal poin…
The most lasting image of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev with a U.S. leader will always be his close relationship with Ronald Reagan. In managing a very tense period toward the end of the Cold War, the image of the two leaders together has been ens…
It's definitely not canon, but this video of Gunnery Sgt. Donald Duck ripping into new recruits from the Disney Universe is hilarious, featuring Goofy trying to pull off a satisfactory war face as Pluto attempts to keep a straight face and the Duck…
I'm known among my friends as a bit of a heartless cynic (#NotPopularAtParties #PleaseStopInvitingMe #HowManyOfTheseDoIHaveToRuinToBeLeftAlone). Maybe that's why We Are The Mighty's president and CMO, U.S. Air Force veteran Mark Harper, sent me t…
In World War II, every country was looking for an edge, so it's pretty amazing that the Nazis found one and then decided against it – and rightly so. Chlorine trifluoride ignites on contact with almost any substance, burns at over 2000°C, and wi…
Military stories are popular for many reasons; they celebrate heroes, mourn the fallen, and remind us all that war is heart-wrenching.The military is one of the most detail-oriented, standardized, and training-intensive operations ever to exi…
In August 1944, the successes of D-Day were in the rear-view mirror and American troops were engaged in the long slog to Berlin. One group of American soldiers got a surprise when, while chasing German soldiers east, they captured a military train o…
Do you really want to know what happens in either Captain Marvel or Avengers: Endgame even though we're just a fe…
Longtime readers of WATM know that the U.S. Navy had flying carriers in the 1930s that eventually failed as zeppelins began crashi…
A Marine grunt reflects on the Corps' chosen automatic rifle.
Few weapons are more closely associated with World War II than the M3 Submachine Gun – also known as the "Grease Gun" for its distinctive shape. The Grease Gun actually saw service for decades after the war, becoming the standard-issue weapon fo…
With a $716 billion budget and the mission to be the best at everything, the Pentagon finds some pretty creative ways of going about it. No, they didn't have an actual underground boxing club among the military's highest-ranking chiefs at the Pent…
We learn from our siblings. We watch them. We copy them. We accidentally erase the save on their Pokèmon game when we're 10 years old and they still, to this day, think the game file was "probably ruined from leaving it in the sun too lo…
In October of 1942, Charles Mason took one last look at the hulking gray warship the US Navy had entrusted to his command, ensuring that all other personnel had been accounted for and evacuated from its massive long decks. Seconds later, Mason jumpe…