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Ever since word got out that the Pentagon spent $436 on a hammer in the 1980s, citizen watchdogs have kept a close eye on how much the Defense Department spends on its maintenance and upkeep. To keep costs low on an aging fleet of airplanes, the USA…
Norman Jones, Juan Reyes, Yvette Marie Wilson, Guill Garcia, and Matt Bellina all once fought for our country. Now they are fighting for their lives because of a terminal disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). They are not al…
Airman 1st Class William "Pits" Pitsenbarger was a Pararescueman during the Vietnam War. Less than a year after receiving orders, he would g…
In September 2005, Mexican Marines arrived under the Mexican flag to Harrison County, Miss. It was the first time in 159 years that Mexican troops operationally deployed inside the United States. There, they met U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors. B…
The distance between Washington, D.C. and the former Confederate capital of Richmond, Va. is a scant 95 miles. They're practically neighbors. Early in the Civil War, the Union Army attempted to capture the rebel capital but the forces led by Gen. G…
The media dubbed it "The Worm that Ate the Pentagon" and it was the most serious breach of the Pentagon's classified computer systems. In November 2008, the Army caught a worm called Agent.btz crawling through the Defense Department's Secret Int…
What makes a movie "the most Russian movie possible?" In this case, it isn't the long takes and subtle camera movement that trademarked films of the late Soviet Union. It instead features modern-day Soviet-level superheroes drawn together from al…
Graham Roland always knew he wanted to be a writer. The problem out of high school was that he didn't really know what he was going to write about. The answer would come when he joined the United States Marine Corps in November of 2000, becoming a …
Featured image courtesy of Lexington Herald Leader (kentucky.com)The people of Letcher County, Kentucky are currently raising money to build a bronze statue of one of their most iconic civil war veterans, Martin Van Buren Bates…
When Ciara Hester, wife of a U.S. Marine, tweeted to Ava DuVernay (Salem, When They See Us), she had no idea the powerhouse director would respond — let alone send a gift.Hester complimented DuVernay's red carpet look and said she…
Star Trek would be a lot less interesting if we found out the Enterprise didn't run on an advanced isolinear computing system but instead ran on something like MS-DOS. We might laugh at how incredulous that work of science fiction would be…
At the height of World War I, British intelligence provided the United States with a secret telegram sent from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman to the government of Mexico. The telegram promised the Mexicans a military alliance if the Unite…
Earlier in 2019, President Trump wanted to send U.S. troops into Mexico to assist the Mexican government in fighting drug cartel violence. But even after the brutal killing of an American family in Mexico, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obr…
The United Kingdom's Unknown Warrior, much like the United States' Unknown Soldier, arose from a movement to honor the unknown war dead who perished on the battlefields of World War I. When he was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, he was…
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Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have teamed up to create 68 Whiskey, a new series about combat medics in Afghanistan, premiering on Jan. 15, 2020. In a hopeful twist, it's going to be a comedic drama, which is what serving in the military actu…
In Chapter 4: Sanctuary (quite superbly directed by Bryce Dallas-Howard), our Mandalorian and his Yoda Baby seek out a nice calm place to hide out for awhile. He settles for the remote planet of Sorgan, which should be quiet and safe, right? Right?
On Sept. 14, 2019, a swarm of drones and cruise missiles struck the world's largest oil processing facility inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. There was little doubt in the Saudi's minds as to who the culprit could be. Their American allies agree…
Herbert G. Claudius was in command of the patrol ship USS PC-566 in 1942. His mission and that of his crew was to monitor the Louisiana coast and its territorial waters for signs of any Nazi u-boat activity. On July 30, 1942, they got their…
If you're anything like me and had a subscription to Civil War Times Illustrated when you were ten years old, the first time you saw Colonel Sanders (of KFC fame), you probably thought to yourself: "That's not a colonel! I've seen colon…