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The Air Force spent a lot of time trying to mothball the A-10 Thunderbolt II over the past few years. After realizing there is no reliable close-air support (CAS) alternative to the airframe, however, Congress fought the Air Force at nearly ever…

Everyone has to start somewhere. It's not as if a young boy from Tikrit woke up one day and decided he would be known as "the Butcher of Baghdad." It's far more likely such a boy would just become a butcher. (And for the record, Saddam Hussein …

Navy veteran and Food Network Allstar, August Dannehl cooks a four course meal for his fellow vets based on stories from their service. A braised pork belly inspired by the MRE's feared dehydrated pork product, Chicken Tagine inspired by a training…

Being in the military means keeping up with grooming standards. Being a woman in the military means keeping up with grooming standards of the military and society. While there is a lot of press around…

It was tempting to make the headline for this review-interview "'Terminal Lance' creator Maximilian Uriarte gets dark with The White Donkey. That wouldn't be truthful, at least not completely. Much of Uriarte's self-publis…

The Air Force Chief Scientist said F-35 pilots will be able to control a small group of drones flying nearby from the aircraft cockpit in the air, performing sensing, reconnaissance and targeting functions. At the moment, the flight path,…

There are many military specialties that translate into thriving careers in the civilian sector. These are usually POG jobs—personnel other than grunts in military speak—like engineering, communications, and any other skills outside of the trig…

[brid video="115885" player="7965" title="CC Katie Robinson"]Marine veteran James P. Connolly (Sirius/XM Radio, Comics Unleashed) hosted the 6th Annual Veteran's Day Benefit Comedy Show "Cocktails & Camouflage" at Flappers Comedy Club i…

With 100 years of war films combined with the infamously derivative nature of Hollywood, there were bound to be a few archetypical characters popping up here and there (and everywhere). As a result, any given war movie will have at least one o…

As everyone watches the event in Oregon, which so far isn't really a standoff, reporters are trying to figure out who the 12-150 people in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters building are.

You don't really know your buddies until you deploy together. At that point you get to see a side of them that their families and closest loved ones have never seen -- a side effect of spending every hour with them for months on end in a foreign la…

[brid video="115886" player="7965" title="TYFYS James P. Connolly"]Navy veteran and Food Network Allstar, August Dannehl cooks a four course meal for his fellow vets based on stories from their service. A braised pork belly inspired by the M…

Any time someone sets out to make a war film, he or she risks getting swept up into the action, the combat, the inherent drama that comes with the subject. The truly great war movies recognize the smaller elements, the ironies and subtleties of l…

The torpedo the Japanese called kaiten was a human-driven suicide bomb, the kamikaze of the seas. Its name translates literally as "return to the sky," which is as descriptive of the driver as it is for its targets.