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While Congress might have tinkered with the benefits many former servicemembers will receive when they leave the military beginning in 2018, the dizzying array of calculations, percentages, and investment tools now a part of a veteran's future nest…

[brid video="117478" player="7965" title="Inside Look Top 10 Military Shooter Games "]There have been tons of awesome video games developed over the last 10 years, but only some of them hit the sweet spot when it comes to military shooter game…

Only in Patton's Army could a mild-mannered history teacher from Moline, Illinois, join the service and become forever immortalized as "Bazooka Charlie." Charles Carpenter joined the Army as a pilot shortly after America's entry into…

Mike Durant is a prime example of an individual who took a terrible situation and turned it into a positive life experience. He's the real "Black Hawk Down" pilot shot down and captured during the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993. Today, h…

It's a video game series beloved by troops deployed to recent battlefields and has become as common in squad bays as dip and energy drinks. And now thanks to efforts by its designer, Activision, the non-profit that bears its name has bro…

[brid video="115374" player="7965" title="Mighty Minute US vs The World"]It's the big fight, the heavyweight championship — the U.S. against the world. The whole world. And not just traditional rivals. In this scenario, the U.S. …

A combat trooper's most important piece of gear is his weapon. And fortunately for the U.S. military, American arms makers have been for years at the cutting edge of weaponology, merging technology with practicality, durability, and accuracy to f…

Going supersonic at altitude is one thing, but when you're feeling the need for speed there's nothing like taking it down low for a little "speed rush baseline" calibration. And more the better if the gang happens to be there on the ground to ca…

The Marine Corps has unveiled a new badge for its elite Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command operators, an eagle with outstretched wings clutching a Raider stiletto with a constellation that represents the Marines who served in the Pacifi…

In 1968, then-Maj. Colin Powell was a Ranger assigned to the Army's 23rd Infantry Division. It was his second tour in Vietnam. Just five years earlier, he was one of the American advisors to South Vietnam's fledgling army. While on a fo…

Andrew Brennan's grandfather pulled him out of school after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, like many parents and grandparents did that day. As soon as his car left the parking lot, Brennan's grandfather, a World War II veteran, turned …

Everyone remembers the 1980s war movies with their action-packed jungle sequences and grunt lifestyle. "Full Metal Jacket," "

The Army's top surgeon said Aug. 18 the service is working with its combat medics to deal with casualties that can't be airlifted immediately out of the battle zone and back to surgical facilities for hours or days, arming the first responders wit…

Fort Hood just became the 35th U.S. military base to allow civilians to rent housing on the base as a result of falling dem…