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For many Americans, joining the military represents a second chance, free of the social obligations, economic pressures, and uncertainty of our civilian lives. For me, however, it represented a bit more: a second chance at playing a sport I thought …
In early 1942, things were finally starting to look up for the Allies in Europe. After the Miracle at Dunkirk, the British managed to regroup and deploy their forces elsewhere. The Blitz was over, and the English home islands were safe from invasion…
Mikey Day's World War I soldier desperately trying to get comfort from home is so real. I just discovered this SNL sketch and then I had a drink in honor of everyone who got screwed over by Jody...Not only that, it slyly captures the …
"Don't tell medical sh*t!" That's the advice I got before I went to Marine Corps OCS in the summer of 2011. "If you tell them you're jacked up in any way they will DQ you before you even get started." I wanted to become a Marine, I wan…
Any attempt to make a network TV show about Marines feels forced. I mean, c'mon, if you've ever been around Marines for more than 5 minutes, they will already have: cussed 30 times, tried to talk you into day-drinking, and drawn a penis o…
The Confederate Army had better things to do than decide how it would award medals to its fighting men. In that era, Americans weren't really into medals and ribbons, as it was considered a very European military tradition. The Civil War changed al…
Body armor for your average infantry troop has come a long way. Today's soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are issued amazing technology designed to stop the most common threat they will likely face in combat: the rifle round. But the tech that…
WARNING: This post contains spoilers from Season 2 Episode 19.This week, SEAL Team tackled one of the most dangerous threats to military veterans: suicide. U.S. veterans have a higher suicide rate than civilians — a…
Jack Murphy is no stranger to controversy. In fact, you might even say that the former Army Ranger-turned-Green Beret-turned-journalist has sought it out, or at least…
If you haven't yet seen the third episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, then stop reading this, go watch it, then come back and finish reading this. If you have, and you were reasonably frustrated for most of the episode, then th…
One of U.S. Special Forces' most legendary figures died suddenly and tragically on April 29, 2019. Eldon Bargewell, a 72-year-old retired Major General, was killed after his lawnmower rolled over an embankment near his Alabama home. His 40-year mil…
At some time in our military careers, we come across pilots of all sorts, helicopter pilots, Air Force cargo pilots, Navy fighter pilots, etc. While the former two might allow you to refer to them as simply "pilots," there's a good chance the nav…
This article contains spoilers from "Game of Thrones" Season 8 Episode 4: "The Last of the Starks."Really, though, if you haven't seen "The Last of the Starks" go watch it, call a loved one, and then come back…
International diplomacy is a sort of constantly evolving, tangled mess. So much so that, in some cases, we could technically still be at war with a country that we're now allied with. For instance, America never ratified the treaty that ended World…
The sting of the Warrior Wasp is pure torture, according to entomologist Dr. Justin Schmidt, who was willingly stung by each of the most painful insect stings on Earth to create a scale of pain. He went on to describe it as being chained in the flow…
A recent increase in UFO sightings has caused the Navy to revamp guidelines with which to report a UFO sighting officially. This comes on the heels of a 2018 sighting that was reported by the Washington Post and then seemingly disappeared back into …
The first American to visit Afghanistan decided he was going to take the wild land by force. That's just what Americans did back then, I suppose. The young man was born into a privileged life for the time, and lived a life of globetrotting adventur…
One week after D-Day, Germany began launching a new, secret weapon at London. The distinctive roar of V-1 flying bombs would slowly fill the air and then suddenly cut out, followed shortly by the massive explosion as a warhead went off. Dozens would…
While most of the Confederate Navy in the states was either penned up or quickly defeated during the Civil War, the Confederacy poured resources into blockade runners and commerce raiders that were successful, and few could even touch the CSS Al…
For years, the Navy has been planning to buy Lockheed's newest version of the Sea Stallion helicopter, the CH-53K King Stallion. In fact, they've already pre-ordered 200 of the new helicopter. But Lockheed's new bird is running into a lot of stum…