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[brid video="115780" player="7965" title="13HDR Full A FINAL"]In Michael Bay's "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi", the actors were mentored by the type of warfighters they portray in the film in order to accurately depict their ab…
TripAdvisor is a great place to get travel tips from fellow adventurers. It can tell you what cafes are best in Paris or which museums are best in Germany. And, it can apparently tell you which bases are best in Afghanistan. Some hilario…
Mylee Cardenas had a plan: stay in the Army until they told her to leave. But her dreams of becoming a career soldier were derailed by cancer. Instead, she found her second wind in life as a model and actress.Without any money in th…
The Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP) is an organization based in Virginia that builds c…
In 1997, CNN's Peter Arnett, Peter Bergen, and news photographer Peter Jouvenal interviewed Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. They spent little more than an hour with the man who would become the world's most wanted terro…
In early April 2016, U.S. Marine Corps veteran Charlie Linville departed the U.S. with The Heroes Project founder Tim Medvetz. Their destination was Nepal and their third attempt to reach the summit of Mo…
The seven crewmembers of a B-52 that crashed at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, during a takeoff on May 19 were applauded by their commander for their actions in the crisis. "We are thankful that the air crew are safe," Brig. Gen. Dougla…
In 1945, Sid Shafner, a member of the U.S. Army with the 42nd Infantry Division, liberated Marcel Levy from Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany. This month -- just over seventy years later -- the two met again. Friends of the Is…
Now that women are eligible for any combat job in the U.S. military, the top brass thinks it might be time for th…
The M60 Patton was America's first main battle tank and a heavy-lifter for the U.S. from its adoption in 1960 to its final retirement in 1997. It's still in service in allied countries around the world and Raytheon has come out with a modernizati…
You might have seen it in "Heartbreak Ridge."
As 1941-America faced the prospect of entering World War II, Looney Tunes made a cartoon that perfectly captured the struggles of Army life. Surprisingly (or maybe not considering the timeless nature of serving), the jokes still work in the modern A…
At the Battle of Camerone in 1863, 65 Legionnaires with the French Foreign Legion resisted a series of attacks by a 2,000-man Mexican force for 11 hours, killing about 300 of the Mexicans before the surviving Legionnaires demanded concessions from t…
Eugene Sledge and several classmates intentionally flunked out of their studies in order to enlist during World War II. Sledge chose the Marine Corps infantry and was trained as a 60mm mortarman before being assigned as a replacement in the
Alex Minsky joined the Marine Corps with every intention of making a career out of it, but that plan was changed by an insurgent IED. Now he's found a new life in the fast-paced world of male modeling.Alex Minsky joined the Marine Corps…
This year the GI Film Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary of sharing the military experience in and out of the arena of war. The festival is the first in the nation to exclusively celebrate the successes and sacrifices of the service member…
