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Jun 5, 2022

This clever advertising doomed thousands of aviators

In the lead up to World War II, the U.S. Army Air Force had to make tough decisions on how to spend limited defense dollars. Decades of strict budgets after World War I left capabilities across the military underdeveloped, and the Air Forces decided…

BYLogan Nye

Jun 5, 2022

BYTeam Mighty

Mar 19, 2023

The first Black Marine Corps aviator was the Corps’ first Black general

When Frank E. Petersen, Jr. retired from the Marine Corps in 1988, he was not only the senior ranking aviator in the Marines and the Navy, he’d been flying for…

BYTeam Mighty

Mar 19, 2023

BYBlake Stilwell

Jan 11, 2023

This aerial gunner was one of the only US aviators to be buried at sea inside his aircraft

Only once in the history of the U.S. Navy was an aviator buried at sea inside his airplane. Loyce Edward Deen was so shot up by Japanese anti-aircraft fire, his shipmates decided to keep him forever in his TBM Avenger as they bid him fair winds a…

BYBlake Stilwell

Jan 11, 2023

BYTeam Mighty

Jan 14, 2021

How to resist enemy interrogation like a British SAS operator

For service members, being captured and interrogated by the enemy is nightmare scenario no matter how you slice it. And for some — particularly special operations forces and aviators who fly well behind enemy lines — there’s a good e…

BYTeam Mighty

Jan 14, 2021

BYSandboxx

Jan 12, 2021

Why even F-35 pilots still have to fly ‘by the seat of their pants’

Being able to fly by the seat of your pants is still an important skill for a fighter pilot. Although modern fighters have an incredible array of sensors that feed…

BYSandboxx

Jan 12, 2021

BYJessica Evans

Dec 15, 2020

A year in the life of the rock stars of aviation – the Blue Angels

You might think intense physical training and serious mental workouts only apply to Special Ops teams in the military. The truth is that the Blue Angels training schedule is just…

BYJessica Evans

Dec 15, 2020

BYMiguel Ortiz

Nov 29, 2020

These pilots fought back at Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941 is a date which will live in infamy. The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor took the lives of 2,403 Americans, wounded 1,178, and served as the…

BYMiguel Ortiz

Nov 29, 2020

BYSandboxx

Jul 17, 2020

3 reasons Washington’s football team should be called the Redtails

The Washington Redskins are no more, and this Marine thinks it’s time for the Washington Redtails.

BYSandboxx

Jul 17, 2020

BYToday I Found Out

Apr 29, 2020

These were the daring WWII female pilots known as the ‘Night Witches’

Throughout the 1930s pilots around the world were continually trying to push the limits of anything that had been done before in the air. While the likes of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart are more familiar names in the Western World, the Sovie…

BYToday I Found Out

Apr 29, 2020

BYUnited States Air Force

Apr 29, 2020

Flight equipment will finally fit female aviators

Flight equipment is on its way through a major overhaul. The biggest change coming to the equipment is it is being designed with measurements from female aviators. Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, held a Female Fitment Event, June 4, 2019,…

BYUnited States Air Force

Apr 29, 2020