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When France asked Germany to open negotiations for an armistice and peace treaty during the Battle of France, Germany was quick to agree — but Hitler had one petty and symbolic gesture that he demanded be part of any negotiations.
The OV-10 Bronco had a long service career with the United States. It first saw action in Vietnam and stuck around through Desert Storm. Just a few years ago, the idea of
The High-Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle, best known as the Humvee, has been a mainstay of the United States Military for three decades, replacing the classic Jeeps. These vehicles are now giving way to the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, or JL…
Everyone lies — it's natural. To say you don't lie is a lie in and of itself because you know damn well you've told a kid at some point that, "it gets better" knowing full-well it doesn't — especially as an adult. In fact, the onl…
DARPA has engineered a set of wheels that can turn into tracks while in motion in under two seconds. The Reconfigurable Wheel Track (RWT) allows vehicles to morph …
Over the past eight years, we've seen two reboots of some of our favorite T.V. shows from the last century: Hawaii Five-O and MacGyver. In September of this year, we're getting another, Magnum, P.I., and we think the vet…
Veterans and troops always have a go-to spot where they can enjoy themselves after hours. Oftentimes, it's a bar where they can unwind alongside buddies and take their minds off the stresses that come with military life, if only for a brief moment.…
When the United States military switched from the legendary M1911 to the M9 Beretta, a lot of hell was raised, to put it mildly. The M1911 had served with American troops for nearly three-quarters of a century and it fired a .45 ACP round that had a…
This past week, the 65th anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement, saw the return of 55 troops' remains by the North Koreans to the United States. A U.S. Air Force C-17 flew into Wonsan, North Korea, to pick up the remains before returning the…
Unlike the United States, which threw at least a half-dozen outstanding fighters at the Axis in World War II (the F4F Wildcat, the F4U Corsair, the F6F Hellcat, the P-38 Lightning, the P-47 Thunderbolt, and the P-51 Mustang, just to name a few), Naz…
The 1943 Battle of Tarawa was the first of the Central Pacific Campaign. There, 18,000 Marines fought a bloody, 76-hour battle to seize the heavily fortified Tarawa Atoll from 4,500 Japanese defenders, wading through hundreds of yards of surf and sc…
The nation's highest medal for valor under enemy fire dates back over 150 years and has been awarded to well over 3,000 men and one woman in honor of heroic acts, including everything from stealing enemy trains to braving machine gun fire to pull c…
Just as the Army has been saying for almost thirty years, they are finally working out the details of what will be the replacement for the current push-ups/sit-ups/2-mile-run version of the Army Physical Fitness Test. For a quick primer on what the …
Every Apple user is inevitably faced with the terms of service. The vast majority of us will start to think about reading them, realize we're looking at a 56-page magnum opus of legalese and tiny print, and then just accept the fact that we're goi…
Video games way oversold the military. Shooter after shooter and strategy game after strategy game promised a career filled with Firebats and thermonuclear grenades, but the actual military turned out to be a lot of hard work using basic tools. Wher…
Once you've completed your branch's initial entry training, you're officially entered into the ranks of one of the most prestigious fighting forces the world has ever seen. Congratulations. You've done something difficult that your civilian peer…
An Italian woman was in a severe car collision in Niger and staff at the local hospital realized they couldn't treat the woman properly with the equipment they had on hand. What followed was an 18-hour odyssey that relied on medical staff from six …
In the fog of war, it's not uncommon for outstanding pieces of heroism to go unrecognized — at least for a time. In the case of
For combat medics, success is all about keeping up with formations and providing expert and timely medical care at the point of injury. So it makes sense that their competitions for top bragging rights include everything from administering medical a…
"You can't spell 'lost' without 'Lt'" is such an old joke in the military that Lieutenant George Washington probably had to halfheartedly chuckle at it to get his salty platoon sergeant off his ass. Yet, no matter how many times it's repeate…