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Matt Perry wouldn't be the first active-duty Sailor to make the jump to NASCAR, but he would be the first to make his debut by crowdfunding it.The south Georgia native has been bombing around dirt and asphalt since the tender ag…
Training to head off to a war zone can get pretty intense. Since we train the way we fight, instructors who've seen combat develop insane ways to pass on their knowledge to the next set of deploying badasses. We spend hours training alon…
Saudi Arabia has been on a buying spree as of late, acquiring a lot of high-end weaponry. Much of it has come from the United States, with a …
In the early months of World War II, the United States Asiatic Fleet had been given an impossible job — hold the line against the might of the Japanese Navy. The ships and men did their best, but they were ultimately forced to retreat towards Aus…
Some weapons are universally loved by the troops that carry them. Others somehow make it past the drawing board, through testing, and into the hands of soldiers — who then hate them. These are the most reviled. 6. The Ross Rifle…
When you think of a crusader, you may think of the Christian warriors who tried to 'free' the Holy Land (but are now mostly known for their bad behavior). Or…
Developed by the Germans as early as 1939, night-vision goggles, or NVGs, have been a massive staple in the allied forces' arsenal, enabling …
After spending two to three months in boot camp, young troops who are looking to serve in the infantry must move onto additional grunt training at other various grounds. Once they graduate from that, some head off to their first units, wh…
In 1999, the last official Morse code message was sent out from the Globe Wireless master station south of San Franci…
On Aug. 4, 1945, a group of Russian school children from the Vladimir Lenin All-Pioneer Organization presented a two-foot, wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States to Averell Harriman, the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
In comic books and superhero movies, there's a constant trope about average troops being given superpowers to match their immense bravery and honest heart. From a story perspec…
When it comes to making good military aircraft, some countries are obvious go-tos. The United States, France, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom all immediately spring to mind as creators of classic combat planes. Then, you've got some smaller c…
In this modern world, earning a nickname is generally a piece of cake. Show up for work one day with a half-shaven face and you will quickly be slapped with one or two 'loving' and memorable nicknames that follow you for years. In previ…
The Joint Direct Attack Munition gets a lot of the press these days because of how precise and lethal it is. Its GPS guidance, however, is actually just one of three general approaches to precision-guided weapons. Outside of GPS guidance systems, o…
We all know spending time apart is a reality of military family life. Training, deployments, unaccompanied tours… all of these things result in having to spend long stretches of time away from your spouse. But what about those times when families …
The Lockheed F-16 Fighting Falcon has become a legend. It was the star of the 1986 movie, Iron Eagle, in which Doug Mast…
Typically, every single day of the work week, service members come together and stand quietly in organized columns, called a 'formation.' At these formations, service members are accounted for and various information is passed along.
The USS Constitution was firing broadsides into the Tripoli forts as America's six gunboats rushed into the shallow water of the harbor. The battle quickly spun into hand-to-hand fightin…
Fighting holes have been around for decades, used as effective defensive positions by armed troops to stymie the enemy's deadly offensive. Some branches refer to these dug-in positions as "foxholes," but both references mean the same.
The Air Force is one step closer to getting the new Pave Hawk. The first HH-60W has started the process of final assembly two months ahead of schedule and will be set to make its first flight by the end of this year. "Final assembly of t…