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It turns out naval aviators are just like every other sailor.

It's not bravado, it's not some Hollywood publicity stunt, and it sure as hell isn't special effects. Arnold Schwarzenegger not only owns a tank, he knows how to drive it and operate it in every possible way. It wouldn't have done him much good …

Ten years from now, you might be on patrol with new super lightweight body armor. If you feel something tingling, cool it – you aren't Spider-Man, but your vest might be made from spider silk – and you probably just need to drink more water. Th…

If words like foil, epee, and sabre don't excite you very much, now you can imagine the word "lightsaber" joining them on equal footing – at least that's what the French Fencing Federation says. The primary governing body of a sport that appea…

Lt. Giulio Gavotti dropped grapefruit-sized ordnance from his monoplane.

Leonid Rogozov was one of 13 scientists and researchers on the Soviet Union's sixth expedition to Antarctica from 1960 to 1962. One morning in 1961, he woke up feeling general malaise, weakness, and feverish along with pain in his abdomen. He soon …

Oda Nobunaga was a powerful feudal lord in late 16th-century Japan. For almost 200 years, Japan had seen near-constant warfare between daimyo, lords like Oda. Although the emperor was nominally in charge of the Japanese people, his real power was ce…

Few British politicians are as controversial as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Still, it was incumbent upon foreign governments to protect her when she traveled abroad. When preparing to visit Japan for an economic summit, Thatcher receive…

I wish every veteran could get a makeover from the Queer Eye Fab Five — and before you reach for your beers and bullets, hear me out: the military teaches us to suck it up and prepares us for the worst conditions on earth...and…

Venezuelan Socialist Party Vice President Diosdado Cabello is warning his party that United States Marines are going to be coming for Venezuela soon. This declaration comes after aircraft from the two countries were involved in an airborne confronta…

A Russian-born American has been captured in Syria by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. These anti-ISIS fighters have captured thousands of defeated Islamic State militants in the country since the fall of its de facto capital of Raqqa in 20…

Master Sergeant George Hand US Army (ret) was a member of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, The Delta Force. He is a now a master photographer, cartoonist and storyteller.There is a saying among the airborne forces…

Master Sergeant George Hand US Army (ret) was a member of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, The Delta Force. He is a now a master photographer, cartoonist and storyteller.(The featured cartoon courtesy of the autho…

Master Sergeant George Hand US Army (ret) was a member of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, The Delta Force. He is a now a master photographer, cartoonist and storyteller.(Feature cartoon: Delta's Marinus Pope is …

Here in the United States, we tend to think of nuclear weapons in much the same way we think of the space race and the Cold War: like a relic of a bygone era in which America emerged victorious. Unfortunately, that era isn't quite as bygone as it s…

The internet has been aflutter with memes about a million-person strong raiding party headed for the U.S. government's top secret military installation commonly referred to as Area 51 for weeks now. Sure, the whole thing started as a joke, and some…

If Keanu Reeves recently became the internet's boyfriend, that would make Chuck Norris the ex the internet still thinks about sometimes. Sure, the Chuck Norris facts that once took the internet by storm have since been repurposed for other celebrit…

When you're the closest neighbor to a country like North Korea, you tend not to put up with a lot of provocative behavior from unfriendly countries. It should be no surprise that there's a huge difference between how the United States and South Ko…

Well, the Army's secret is out – specifically its secret operation in the U.S. capital that has Blackhawk helicopters flying American troops around the Washington, D.C. area. The accidental leaker is, surprisingly, the United States Army and its …