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In 1995, Damon Wayans played the hilarious U.S. Marine Maj. Benson Winifred Payne who lives for war and sleeps with his eyes o…

Hey, want to make an extra $175,000? Well, if you're a Navy fighter pilot and you're willing to spend another five years in the service, that pile of cash can be yours! Now that we have the big-ass headline and the promise of a lot of moolah out o…

Steve Rogers' career has been extraordinarily long and eventful. Just like our own careers, his has evolved over time and, with it, so have his personality and looks. Now, with the latest Avengers installment, Infinity War, set to…

How many carriers does the United States Navy have? Well, between the ten Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and the freshly commissioned USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the first of her class, you might think the answer is 11 — …

When you think "Marines," your mind conjures up images of fighting on the Pacific Islands of Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal. Or perhaps you immediately think of the Battle of Fallujah. Well, did you know that the Marines also train for arctic warfare? I…

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most well-known cultural icons of Great Britain. To date, he's been portrayed by 254 actors and has been referenced in

We hear a lot about the T-14 Armata and the T-90, some of Russia's latest designs. But neither of these tanks, historically, has served as the backbone of the Russian Army. Let's face facts: Most of the T-90 production has been for export — In…

Duffel Blog, the wildly popular military satire site everybody knows and your Uncle Thomas doesn't entirely understand, is launching a hilarious new card game designed for veterans. "WTF, Over?" is a p…

Many believe that the true rise of social media began after Google bought out the video streaming service, YouTube, for $1.65 billion in 2006. Since then, billions of people around the globe have documented their lives and ran successful …

There's rarely a middle ground with military films. Either they're masterpieces worthy of every accolade given or they're so bad that troops turn them into drinking games, taking a shot every time something completely unrealistic happens.

Russia and Communist China have worked together a lot since the fall of the Soviet Union. Back in the 1990s, Russians sold the Chinese a lot of military technology, including the Su-27/30/33 Flanker family of multi-role fighters and Sovremennyy-clas…

The BTR family of wheeled armored personnel carriers, which were introduced by the Soviet Union in 1960, predates the Stryker family of vehicles by several decades. The Sov…

The moments leading up to a bloody engagement are frightening. Troops, knowing the end may be near, stand and wonder what lies beyond the next bend. Every so often, Hollywood recreates this moment on film. Invariably, we see our hero tak…

Drawing is the creative pastime of choice for many. It's something fun you can do almost anywhere to relieve stress — unless someone looks over your shoulder at your art collection and realizes you've got talent. The moment you become…

During Operation Desert Storm, the world watched as approximately 2,000 M1 Abrams tank demonstrated the warfighting capabilities of American armor. By the end of the conflict, the M1 Abrams proved to be a monumental success, as the massive fleet des…

About two weeks after he found the sunken aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV 2), Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has located another legendary wreck. This time, according to

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Serving in the infantry means you wanted to challenge yourself beyond your known limits — and you scored pretty low on your ASVAB. We're only kidding. Everyone who has earned the MOS of a grunt must know how to shoot their weap…

When it was first designed, the AGM-114 Hellfire missile was intended to give the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter a way to kill the Soviet tanks of World War II, replacing a combination of the AH-1 Cobra and the BGM-71 TOW missile. But the Hellfire h…

It's not uncommon in war movies to see a pilot heroically struggle to save the lives of wounded crewmen on board a damaged plane as he brings her to the carrier or base. At the end of the 1976 movie Midway, for example, Matt Garth (as pla…