Let’s be clear — all battles suck for a foot soldier, even the smaller ones. But there were some in recent times that sucked more than others for the lowly grunt, with body counts piling up, bad commanders and leadership with a total lack of resp…
What causes someone to betray their country, everyone and everything they’ve ever known, and risk their freedom – and maybe even their life – for some kind of short term…
Henry J. Kaiser figured out how to refoot an economy focused on razor blades and soda bottles into a Liberty-ship machine. He built 1/3 of all Navy Liberty ships of…
Anyone who’s ever served in uniform has probably heard someone say the immortal line: “I would have joined the military, but…”
Lots of civilians make a trip to the recruiter with an eye toward military service, full of patriotic zeal…
Today, the United States has issued more than 7 million patents — coming in at more than 350,000 issued patents per year, out of around 600,000 annual applications. (That’s down…
Leonard Schroeder trained his whole career for that moment. A native of Linthicum Heights, Maryland, he attended the University of Maryland with a ROTC scholarship, graduating in June 1941. He…
Napoleon is credited for saying that an Army marches on its stomach. Whether he actually said that or not is disputed, but whomever did say that was correct: Food is…
On July 5, 1950, the first American was killed in the Korean War. The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when 75,000 North Korean soldiers pushed south across the…
One of the reasons the U.S. Army is so capable and successful is its ability to think outside the box to achieve its major objective. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always mean…
By the 16th century, Middle Eastern countries were dabbling in the art of modern prosthetics. Wood and metal limb replacements were used for people who were injured or had been…