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In the military, sometimes things just get lost in transit. Gear goes adrift, paperwork gets filed wrong, and soldiers with no training in parachuting from a perfectly good airplane end up getting thrown out of a perfectly good airplane. It was boun…
The airmen of the United States have always been at the fore of airpower. But that didn't start with the world wars or even the test pilots of the Cold War. The U.S. is the original home of powered flight, of naval aviation, and of aircraft innovat…
Veterans of the war in Afghanistan can tell you the country is absolutely riddled with land mines of all kinds. The country has experienced nonstop war and civil strife since the 1979 Soviet Invasion and ever since, land mines have been a constant h…
The United States Air Force needs aggressor aircraft. There is no geopolitical adversary for the United States quite like Russia and its Soviet-built airplanes. American combat crews need to train against someone, and the best we can get comes in th…
In the days before naval aviation and submarines, the battleship was the unchallenged king of the seas. Building a bigger and better ship with more and bigger guns was basically the order of the day, and it continued all the way up until the days be…
Growing up, my stepdad kept a series of paperback books high up on the shelf. They were novels by an author named John MacDonald with distinctive color-based titles like The Green Ripper and The Scarlet Ruse. They featured a unique sort of private …
Loose lips sink ships, the old saying goes. Nothing could be more true. And the combination of an international audience with highly classified intelligence along with a complete lack of understanding for what's important and what's not can be dis…
When the Red Army crossed the border into Finland in 1939, along with them came a battalion of remote-controlled tanks, controlled by another tank some 1000 meters behind them. Along with the usual heavy armaments, the tank drones shot fire from fla…
Freakin' Russia, man! That country is everywhere in the news these days. Whether it be unexplained deaths of Putin's opposition, election meddling, weird political memes, or
Gilbert Bates knew what a lack of understanding between people could lead to: violence and war. Bates was a Civil War veteran of the Wisconsin artillery who knew that people were basically good, no matter what the rumors said. If there was an area t…
The Navy's tradition of honoring past American Presidents by naming aircraft carrier after them is alive and well. The USS Ronald Reagan, the Abraham Lincoln, and the Gerald Ford are all symbols of the projection of Ameri…
Sinking an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier would be quite a feat for any vessel or aggressor. Not only because they each carry an air force greater than the air forces of most countries, and pack a punch with more power than anything most …
Contrary to popular belief, nutrition timing isn't a huge deal. Your human body is smart, assuming you're a human and not a robot or lizard alien wearing a human skin suit. Your body knows how to use the fuel you give it. It doesn't rely on you f…
You can forget about video games glorifying violence. All that went out the window with the latest iteration of the Battlefield franchise. The new trailer for Battlefield V brings us to World War II in the Pacific Theater and the e…
As anyone who's ever deployed to a war zone knows, there's no better cork for your ass than a meal at Uncle Sam's House of Field Rations. This was a fact long denied by the Combat Feeding Directorate of the U.S. Army Soldier Research and Developm…
If you're about to join the Air Force any time soon, there's a good chance your work is going to involve maintaining aircraft. If you're lucky, you'll get assigned to the F-22 Raptor. Even with the rise of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, there is…
Jumping from a perfectly good airplane is inherently dangerous, even for qualified Army Airborne personnel. Why someone would fake their way into jumping without being certified or trained is anyone's guess, but there was Staff Sgt. Joshua Stokes i…
Fighter aircraft are designed and created for a lot of reasons. The F-22's maneuverability and speed were designed to make the aircraft the world's premier air superiority fighter. The A-10, by contrast, is relatively slow, but the flying tank pac…
Conventional wisdom would tell you that any ship going unnoticed by the enemy, especially an enemy submarine in World Wars I and II, would be the best-case scenario. But the Navy's "Dazzle" camouflage was clearly anything but conventional. The sh…
In 2017, Puerto Ricans battled economic hardship and the lasting effects of Hurricane Maria at home as they celebrated 100 years of American citizenship. On March 2, 1917, the