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The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the U.S. Air Force's infamous trillion-dollar weapon system. So many millions were poured into making the airframe one of the stealthiest fighters on the planet, it might surprise aviation fans to know it comes with…
It is my staunch belief that warriors are born and not created. In the case of either you can trace back through your past to your first ever action that made you realize — though not likely back then at the time — that you were destined to take…
Last year, TrueCar teamed up with DAV (Disabled American Veterans) to put on the
This article is sponsored by Disabled American Veterans.In the wake of World War I, hundreds of thousands of returning and separating American troops came home to a natio…
"He shoots down all these Germans, THEN became the fastest human being alive? And he's this witty, rugged mountain guy? No way, re-write this." If Chuck Yeager's life story were a fictional screenplay, it might be rejected as too unbel…
Ever since its inception in 1908, the FBI has been tasked with investigating the sorts of mysteries that keep Americans up at night. From foreign espionage to bank heists, the FBI has earned a global reputation for its investigative prowess for a re…
The Marine Corps has to recruit a bunch of teens and young twenty-somethings in order to keep recruits flowing in. And they sponsored four YouTubers to come and spend three days in basic training. The main star of the resulting video is Michelle Kha…
Forty years ago, a two-day, American rescue mission launched on April 24 to free the hostages held by Iran in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. For John Limbert, who was held hostage for more than a year during his role as a diplomat in the U.S. Embassy i…
When restrictions to mitigate the spread of coronavirus closed Travis Air Force Base's schools, shut services' doors and canceled social gatherings, the community's lifeblood stopped pumping. "Everything just went dark," said Air Force …
To oust a dictator as terrible as Liberia's Charles Taylor, some warlords committed even more heinous crimes. Taylor is now serving a 50-year sentence in the UK after being
Let's face it, sometimes, the military gets stuck with bad planes. We're talking real dogs here. One of the worst jets was bought by the U.S. Navy and lasted just over a decade between first flight and being retired. The plane in…
Joanna Mendez, former Central Intelligence Agency Chief of Disguise, watched spy scenes from a variety of films and television shows in order to break down how accurate they really are. From Jason Bourne finding his cache of passports and foreign cu…
G-forces don't translate to the big screen, or to video games, but they are a major aspect of flying fighters. Movies like Top Gun show the characters easily moving around the cockpit while chatting on the radio during a dogfight. In reality, durin…
Ever since the F-35 Lighting II program started experiencing cost overruns – a nice way of saying it was hemorrhaging cash – much has been made of its excessive cost in both time and money. But the F-35 is hardly the most expensive Pentagon weap…
The F-22 Raptor is already the most lethal fighter jet ever built, severely outclassing virtually every other aircraft of a similar class fielded by the rest of the world's air forces. But with the advent of newer anti-aircraft defense s…
Do you need an introduction to this? I mean, really? You all know what the Army is, and that all the ranks have their virtues and their vices. Lot's of vices. That's why it's easy to hate all of them.(Disclaimer: It's all in fun. …
In 2001, Mark Giaconia was a Green Beret patrolling the border areas between Kosovo and Serbia. His counterparts were Russian troops, many of which were airborne. Their mission was to disrupt the movements of Albanian UCPMB rebels in the area. For s…
As Lt. Col. Mike Drowley says in his TEDx Talk, he's an attack pilot, but he sees himself as also being a Marine rifleman, Army infantryman, and Navy SEAL, because when he's flying in support of those people, he has to fly like its his own boots o…
It says a lot about a Britisher to even be considered for the title of "classiest," but Maj. Robert Cain should definitely be in the running. He took on six Nazi tanks by himself while holding off the rest of the coming German onslaught. In the en…
Future U.S. General of the Army and President Dwight D. Eisenhower was just a recently promoted and temporary brigadier general when the U.S. was dragged into World War II on December 7, 1941. One week later, he would have a meeting with Chief of St…