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Not too long ago, We Are The Mighty listed the awesome movies and television U.S. troops would not be able to watch on Netflix whi…

DARPA has a plan to implant a device in soldiers' brains to let them communicate with computers and digital sensors.

Comedian Jim Jeffries has done a number of entertainment tours for deployed troops, but they haven't always gone well. In this hilarious video, Jeffries perfectly tells the s…

Arms smugglers and ISIS buyers are hunting for red mercury, a substance that can make dumb bombs smart, hide anything from a drone, and allow for the creation of miniaturized nuclear weapons. If ISIS actually manages to get their hands on the materi…

A true warfighting professional knows how to be civilized at armed conflict. And what many military greats learned over the ages is that there's nothing like a friendly animal by your side to keep you calm and centered when things get kinetic. A…

U.S. Army Master Sergeant John Hartley Robertson, a Green Beret, was in a helicopter shot down over Laos in 1968. His body was never found and was presumed dead. His name is on the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. and the Army officially lis…

*This story was updated on 1/29 to reflect input from the Department of the Army* Early in the world wars, many American women found roles open to them. While they were usually kept far from the direct combat (nurses excluded), t…

On Jan. 13, Fort Bragg Army Reserve soldier Johnny Charlestin was celebrating his birthday when he learned that a $3 Powerball ticket he bought was…

The 1943 season was a tough one for the NFL, its fans, and America. At the height of World War II, Pennsylvania's two pro teams lost a number of players to military service. As a result, the two teams merged temporarily in order to play out the sea…

The Badger is officially the smallest passenger tank on Earth, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It's a one-man…

The American Forces Network (AFN) is the brand name used by the U.S. Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS). It's a worldwide network designed to be entertaining and informational for U.S. troops and their families while deployed or stat…

Last week, We Are The Mighty wrote a list of nine of the most legendary heroes of the U.S. Army. This week, we remember some of the Air Force's heroes. A…

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As the newly reunited States began to recover from the Civil War, expansion westward returned with a new fervor. While the eyes of those who lead the government looked towards California and the Pacific Coast, the eyes of the Revenue Cutter Service,…

The Mapuche Tribes of what is today Chile and Argentina banded together to fight the Spanish colonizers of South America. During the Arauco War in 1557, the natives were fighting the forces of governor García Hurtado de Mendoza but were ultimately…

The U.S. Navy's Nimitz Class aircraft carriers are some of the most powerful weapons systems known to man, floating cities that can take strike warfare capability to the far reaches of the planet, places unreachable by other military assets.  Wit…

Before he received his code name of GARBO, Juan Pujol Garcia was a chicken farmer and hotel manager in Fascist Spain. He started his espionage career with no training, no contacts, and surrounded by intelligence agents from all sides. By the end of…

This may seem like blasphemy to some, but Popeye started his professional career as a civilian mariner and then Coast Guardsman. The famous sailor did join the Navy, but as of 1937, Popeye was firmly in the Coast Guard. A two-reel feature titled

During World War II, there was a concerted effort to develop heavier and heavier tanks, often stretching past the limits of practicality and even credulity. Some of the larger examples were well over 100 tons, huge by today's standards. Almost none…

The story of Soyuz I does not have a happy ending. A flight launched by the space program of the Soviet Union, the craft carried Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov in what was the first manned flight of the Soyuz line of spacecraft. After a serie…