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Samuel J. Seymour was away from his home for the first time at just five years old. He was with his father on a business trip to Washington, D.C., a city filled to the brim with soldiers and other men with guns. He was nervous and scared at the sigh…
Have you got a project due that you should be working on? A paper, a PowerPoint presentation, a briefing to the commander? If so, you are probably on a deadline. But missing a deadline in our modern world is typically just a problem of professional …
"When our freedom was under attack one battle would turn the tide."The first official trailer for 'Midway' has been released, depicting the World War II fight in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Starring Luke Evans (Dracula, F…
Ever notice how some envelopes arrive to your deployed friends with the stamp upside down? Probably not, but oftentimes you'll see it. Sometimes they're also tilted at an angle. This is not an accident, it's an antiquated but still-living little …
U.S. Army veteran Bryan Fant was a helicopter crewman suffering from service-connected neck and back pain. After 17 years of service and three months in rehab, he was discharged from the Army and on the brink of a downward spiral. He alienated his f…
The OSS was the World War II precursor to the CIA.
The Army's working hard to fulfill six big modernization efforts including a new utility helicopter to replace the UH-60. But now the Army has signaled it may need a new scout helicopter first, and
Quick: Name all the things you miss about active duty. (If you still are active duty, then list all the things that make your life bearable as well as all the things you most hate.) Well, Mat Best and Jarred Taylor want to take you on a quick nostal…
In the fast-moving world of defense technology, it pays for contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing to stay on top of Uncle Sam's spending habits. If you can accurately predict how the government will be looking to spend its massive …
In April 1978, an Afghan tank commander rushed to tell President Mohammed Daoud Khan of a coming coup attempt. The President ordered his tank commander to circle to the presidential palace. Khan did not want to be caught off guard. He had only taken…
It's probably not a surprise that "Bloody Mary" is a real person, also known as Mary I of England, who earned her moniker for violently attempting to restore Catholicism to England. In her five-year reign, she had almost 300 religious dissenters …
It sounds like a big job description: "Queen's Champion and Standard Bearer of England." Although these days, the title seems more ceremonial than functional, it still sounds like a big deal. Since the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, whomever…
In April 1944, an intrepid pilot swooped into the jungle in Burma and scooped up three wounded British soldiers and began to fly them out. It would have been a grand escape, a small part of the growing story of air ambulances in World War II. But th…
The British Ministry of Defence announced July 9 that it's investing up to $160 million in testing, procuring, and fielding directed energy weapons for their three military branches, starting with tests on Royal Navy ships and Army vehicles by 2023…
If you're reading this, you're probably familiar with what happened during the American Revolution. But the heroics, triumphs, and defeats of the first American citizens have inspired artists for centuries. Here are 13 illustrations of the war tha…
Nowadays, people may not remember much about H. Ross Perot outside of his boisterous personality, his third-party Presidential run, or maybe even just comedian Dana Carvey's spot-on impression of the Texas billionaire. Perot was a naval officer and…
"The Soviet cosmonaut has become the first to set foot on the moon."For All Mankind introduces the stakes right away — and they hit hard for anyone familiar with the
Wyatt Knox is a rally car driver who has won some awards racing across North America, but at the Team O'Neill Rally School, he trains drivers who will likely never win or even compete in a sanctioned race: military service members and others who dr…
Dueling was still a big deal in mid-19th Century America. So much so, it actually decimated the U.S. Army's officer corps. It seemed no one was immune, from President Jackson on down to the common man. One such common man was future President Abrah…
There has been no friendly fire incident in the history of the world like the 1788 Battle of Karansebes. The Austrian Army had been at war with the Ottoman Turks for more than a year when another contingent of Austrian soldiers stumbled upon another…