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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 …
On August 5, 2014, Master Chief Raina Hockenberry, 41, was a senior chief midway through a deployment in Afghanistan. She was helping train Afghan forces. While leaving an Afghan military camp in Kabul, a rogue Afghan gunman opened fire. Hockenberry…
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…
Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit practiced their ability to conduct mechanized raids on July 1 against an island in Queensland, Australia, showing off American muscle while also ensuring the Marines are ready to take territory and inf…
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…
It's no secret the military is full of soup. Even an FNG could tell you that. There are even more specific alphabet soup acronyms within each branch: the Air Force has OTP, and the Marines have OSM (semi-respectively). Here's a couple of ac…
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…
"How do you get posted at a location such as Area 51 or the Pentagon while in the military?"I feel bad because no one actually answered this question. You see, in the military, there are a finite number of jobs at each location. Depending o…
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…
Over the years, the British have taken a good many significant artifacts back to England with them. To its credit, the British Empire did an excellent job of preserving those relics. Still, plundering any country's cultural treasures is kind of an …