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COVID-19 is here and schools have been cancelled across the country for weeks, even months. No matter if you are a working parent who is now teleworking or a stay at home parent with an unexpected long Spring Break, this list will help you get thing…
"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…
Keep those kids busy! Busy waiting for the mail … and enthralled with whatever was shipped in them. Luckily, there are a number of subscription boxes to choose from, allowing you to help keep kids busy while stuck at home. Whether you have babies …
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…
It's finally here -- the point in which playing Call of Duty might actually become relevant to your military career. In the extra weird era of "Zoom soldiers," virtual training (to no one's surprise) isn't as great as it likely sounded when som…
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 …
Every single one of us has potential, but sometimes we suck at life. Have you ever set a goal for yourself and an hour later talked yourself out of it? Or, tried to break a bad habit and fell back into it after uttering the words, "I can't…
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…
If working out from home is bumming you out, it's time to suck it up and work hard anyway. This time in quarantine will separate the winners from the losers and the wheat from the dang chaff.I get it, working out where you sleep and watc…
In the military space, there are all kinds of strength, variations of independence and endless examples of courage. Jennifer Mabus, 2018 Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) thru-hiker and new Navy spouse is planning to literally walk away from it all (again) …
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…
Cinco de Mayo is a holiday celebrating (fill in the blank). No, seriously this is a quiz. We're guessing you were likely too drunk to remember what one of your most loved holidays is actually about… aside from celebrating tequila and tacos with y…
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…
As the country is getting more and more restless during quarantine, it's time to dig deep. If you have never spent a lot of time stuck indoors, you may be concerned about your mental health. To be fair, it is a scary proposition. And it can drive y…
Our mothers put up with so much and they never get the credit or recognition they deserve. They carried us for nine months, spent every waking moment of our first few years diligently caring for us, and tried their best to make us our best. Then, af…
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…