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[brid video="115780" player="7965" title="13HDR Full A FINAL"]In Michael Bay's "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi", the actors were mentored by the type of warfighters they portray in the film in order to accurately depict their ab…
Mylee Cardenas had a plan: stay in the Army until they told her to leave. But her dreams of becoming a career soldier were derailed by cancer. Instead, she found her second wind in life as a model and actress.Without any money in th…
In 1997, CNN's Peter Arnett, Peter Bergen, and news photographer Peter Jouvenal interviewed Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. They spent little more than an hour with the man who would become the world's most wanted terro…
The seven crewmembers of a B-52 that crashed at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, during a takeoff on May 19 were applauded by their commander for their actions in the crisis. "We are thankful that the air crew are safe," Brig. Gen. Dougla…
The M60 Patton was America's first main battle tank and a heavy-lifter for the U.S. from its adoption in 1960 to its final retirement in 1997. It's still in service in allied countries around the world and Raytheon has come out with a modernizati…
You might have seen it in "Heartbreak Ridge."
At the Battle of Camerone in 1863, 65 Legionnaires with the French Foreign Legion resisted a series of attacks by a 2,000-man Mexican force for 11 hours, killing about 300 of the Mexicans before the surviving Legionnaires demanded concessions from t…
Eugene Sledge and several classmates intentionally flunked out of their studies in order to enlist during World War II. Sledge chose the Marine Corps infantry and was trained as a 60mm mortarman before being assigned as a replacement in the
Alex Minsky joined the Marine Corps with every intention of making a career out of it, but that plan was changed by an insurgent IED. Now he's found a new life in the fast-paced world of male modeling.Alex Minsky joined the Marine Corps…
This year the GI Film Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary of sharing the military experience in and out of the arena of war. The festival is the first in the nation to exclusively celebrate the successes and sacrifices of the service member…
Sure beats any other computer-based training.
C-rations, c-rats, Charlie-rations: Call them what you will, there isn't a soldier from the Korean War- or Vietnam War-era who doesn't remember the military's answer to balanced nutrition. Relished and reviled, C-rations fed millions …
Pin this to your refrigerator for summer fun planning, military families. Summer means baseball action, and many minor league baseball teams across the country are making an effort to honor those who serve the nation. Here's the WATM l…
In 2014, archivists from the U.S. Navy's Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) uncovered a rare trove of photos while moving furniture around during an office renovation. The photos were a donation in their backlog, glass prints of 150 images…
The Battle of Kursk in World War II was Adolph Hitler's last great attempt to take down the Soviet Union. With his army struggling around the world and slowly losing ground to the Russians, the Führer ordered his armies to hold the line at Kursk i…
(This story was provided courtesy of the Naval History and Heritage Command, Communication and Outreach Division) Mother's Day 1943 was not a day of celebration in the Sullivan house in Waterloo,…
