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Army Capt. Rebecca Murga had the same goals as anyone else at gear turn-in after deployment: get rid of this sh*t and get back home. But she made a rookie mistake when she left Afghanistan without double-checking her gear against her clothing list.…
The first Royal Marine to receive the Victoria's Cross earned the medal for gallantry at the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War when he lead his men against a Russian patrol despite being completely out of ammo. Since he couldn't fire, he w…
We just heard how the U.S. Army's top general wants to put lasers, rail guns and all kinds of hig…
Hiroshi Miyamura was born to Japanese immigrants in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1925. This made him Nisei — Japanese for "second-generation." At the outbreak of World War II, Miyamura witnessed many of his fellow Nisei being shipped off to…
China has tested a new anti-satellite weapon, marking a new threat to American space assets like reconnaissance satellites and the Global Positioning System. The Dong Neng 3 missile was previously tested on two occasions, including this past Decembe…
Chritsopher Nolan's new "Dunkirk" movie features Sir Kenneth Branagh as the cool-under-fire Commander Bolton, but his character is largely based on a real British officer who underwent greater hardships to save British and French forces and was t…
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM "DRAGONSTONE,""STORMBORN," AND "THE QUEEN'S JUSTICE." Daenerys Targaryen (played by Emilia Clarke) has had a bad couple of weeks in this penultimate run of "Game of Thrones." As of the first three …
Everyone wants to know who's carrying the biggest stick. While everyone has their own measurements for how to judge the size of a nation's military, these 10 militaries are easily some of the best equipped and trained in the modern world: …
First used by the Russians in 1891, the Mosin-Nagant was modified from a standard service weapon to a sniper rifle in the 1930s. This five-shot, bolt-action rifle was a highly effective killing tool on the battlefield because of its sturdy constr…
EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story incorrectly characterized the operating system and capacity of the M1. It is a gas operated rifle that has an eight-round capacity. This is his rifle. There are ma…
There's a lot of finger pointing going on over the alleged waste of millions in taxpayer funds to
The fall of Custer and five of the companies under his command at the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, known by the Sioux Nation as the Battle of Greasy Grass, was as much a failure of reconnaissance and intelligence as of strategy and tac…
Hollywood has suffered yet another loss. Iconic TV and film actor Sam Shepard recently passed away at the age of 73 from complications with ALS. The Oscar-nominated and award-winning playwright's career lasted almost five decades, and he's accredi…
Today it costs the U.S. Navy about $2.6 billion and just under…
Howard Banks is a WWII veteran who was injured while protecting Old Glory. Not in Europe or the Pacific, but in front of his Texas home.
Propper, a relative newcomer to the body armor market, has – thankfully – recorded its first save. Deputy Michael Hockett, Troup County (…
US General Mark Milley, chief of staff of the Army, says North Korean missile technology may be advancing faster than expected. Milley spoke July 27 at the National Press Club in Washington, as North Koreans concluded a day of remembr…
You've probably heard of the term "backpack nuke" before — perhaps in the context of a video game like Call of Duty, or an action-packed television show like "24." But what you may or may not have realized is that backpack nukes ar…
The Coast Guard is typically more worried about life jackets than L-shaped ambushes, so they often get a reputation for being bad-ss free, but it's actually not true. A bunch of the oft-mocked "puddle pirates" are actually tough as nai…
The "Frozen Chosin" saw the most brutal combat of the Korean War.