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When the trailer for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi dropped, netizens were quick to dub it "Bayghazi," a portmanteau of the location of the now-infamous embassy attack and the name of director Michael Bay. But the film deserv…
On January 17, 1991, seven months after Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded and tried to annex neighboring Kuwait, the world decided it had enough. Operation Desert Storm was launched that day, and Saddam was smacked down by a coalition of 39 c…
Dog people have had their day in the sun with the celebrations of the brave service of military working dogs across the web, including this site. But what about cat people? Where are the stories for them? No need to take your frustration…
The Air Force spent a lot of time trying to mothball the A-10 Thunderbolt II over the past few years. After realizing there is no reliable close-air support (CAS) alternative to the airframe, however, Congress fought the Air Force at nearly ever…
Everyone has to start somewhere. It's not as if a young boy from Tikrit woke up one day and decided he would be known as "the Butcher of Baghdad." It's far more likely such a boy would just become a butcher. (And for the record, Saddam Hussein …
Being in the military means keeping up with grooming standards. Being a woman in the military means keeping up with grooming standards of the military and society. While there is a lot of press around…
It was tempting to make the headline for this review-interview "'Terminal Lance' creator Maximilian Uriarte gets dark with The White Donkey. That wouldn't be truthful, at least not completely. Much of Uriarte's self-publis…
There are many military specialties that translate into thriving careers in the civilian sector. These are usually POG jobs—personnel other than grunts in military speak—like engineering, communications, and any other skills outside of the trig…
[brid video="115885" player="7965" title="CC Katie Robinson"]Marine veteran James P. Connolly (Sirius/XM Radio, Comics Unleashed) hosted the 6th Annual Veteran's Day Benefit Comedy Show "Cocktails & Camouflage" at Flappers Comedy Club i…
With 100 years of war films combined with the infamously derivative nature of Hollywood, there were bound to be a few archetypical characters popping up here and there (and everywhere). As a result, any given war movie will have at least one o…
You don't really know your buddies until you deploy together. At that point you get to see a side of them that their families and closest loved ones have never seen -- a side effect of spending every hour with them for months on end in a foreign la…
The torpedo the Japanese called kaiten was a human-driven suicide bomb, the kamikaze of the seas. Its name translates literally as "return to the sky," which is as descriptive of the driver as it is for its targets.
The elite U.S. Coast Guardsmen of the specialized forces deploy around the globe to fight terrorism and prevent attacks.
The Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine's military nutrition division is asking volunteers to take part in a six-week study during which they'll spend 21 days eating only MREs.
In 1944, pilots shot down over Chichi Jima Island in the Pacific were captured and executed by the Japanese before being turned into gruesome dishes for the soldiers defending the island.
42-year-old Isao Machii is a Japanese Iaidoka, master of Iaido. Iaido is martial art focused on controlled movements in drawing a sword, striking an opponent, cleaning the blood from the blade, and then re-sheathing the sword. Iaido start…
