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Conflicting reports from U.S. officials and terrorist leaders suggest a top commander of the militant Islamic State group might have been killed in a U.S. airstrike near the embattled Syrian town of Aleppo. The Pentagon said in a release …
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know the Pentagon — led by the Army — is looking for a new handgun to replace the 1980s-era Beretta M9. The latest from the program office is that the Army is still in "source selection,"…
When Mariya Oktyabrskaya learned her husband Ilya was killed in action fighting the Nazis near Kiev, she didn't get mad; she got a tank – a Red Army T-34 – named it "Fighting Gi…
Your local exchange's package store could soon have a surprise for you military history buffs: a little taste of "Old Blood and Guts" for your tumbler. Kentucky's Boundary Oak Distillery is now distributing a liquor bearing the face …
Every elite special operations group has its own storied rite of passage. Navy SEALs undergo a
Mexico's Veracruz state may be one of the most dangerous places in the entire country. The extortion and kidnapping of civil servan…
You can run, but you can't hide – especially the age of satellites, hand-held GPS devices, Google Earth and inexpensive, camera-bearing drones. So with easy surveillance tools in the hands of a technologically unsophisticated enemy,…
The largest infantry regiment in the British army, The Rifles are made up largely of straight infantrymen and are organized into five active-duty battalions and two reserve ones. It was established in 2007 under a larger reorganization of the Britis…
Five years into the Syrian Civil War and two years after the rise of ISIS, Turkish troops finally entered the fight on August 24th, with Operation Euphrates Shield. Tur…
Marines in turn-of-the-20th-Century Peking found themselves outnumbered and surrounded in the foreign diplomatic section of the capital. Anti-foreign Chinese Boxers threatened to overrun their position and kill everyone inside: troops, diplomats, an…
Most Americans know the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, D.C, displays the names of every servicemember who died in the war or remain missing in action. But what many may not know is that the last names on the wall were killed in an op…
While Congress might have tinkered with the benefits many former servicemembers will receive when they leave the military beginning in 2018, the dizzying array of calculations, percentages, and investment tools now a part of a veteran's future nest…
Only in Patton's Army could a mild-mannered history teacher from Moline, Illinois, join the service and become forever immortalized as "Bazooka Charlie." Charles Carpenter joined the Army as a pilot shortly after America's entry into…
Mike Durant is a prime example of an individual who took a terrible situation and turned it into a positive life experience. He's the real "Black Hawk Down" pilot shot down and captured during the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993. Today, h…
