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BYTeam Mighty

Mar 14, 2023

An Irish Republican charged an entire battalion of British Soldiers during the Easter Uprising

The Irish had been fighting against British rule on the Emerald Isle for centuries before the First World War. But…

BYTeam Mighty

Mar 14, 2023

BYAmanda Huffman

Feb 22, 2023

The unknown story of the Six Triple Eight: an all Black, female WWII battalion

The story of the Six Triple Eight, an all-Black, all-female World War II Battalion, is unknown to many Americans even…

BYAmanda Huffman

Feb 22, 2023

BYLogan Nye

Nov 10, 2022

These 4 Marines killed so many Germans, the Nazis thought they were an allied battalion

On Aug. 1, 1944, less than two months after D-Day, Marine Maj. Peter J. Ortiz, five other Marines, and an Army Air Corps officer parachuted into France to assist a few hundred French resistance fighters known as the Maquis in their fight against the…

BYLogan Nye

Nov 10, 2022

BYMiguel Ortiz

Jan 17, 2023

That time a Filipino UN Battalion held off an entire Chinese Division in Korea

The history of warfare is full of heroic last stands. From the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae to the Texians and…

BYMiguel Ortiz

Jan 17, 2023

BYAlex Hollings

Oct 23, 2021

Three ways playing football for the military is nothing like playing in college

There’s something about football that just lends itself to the melodramatic emotions of our youth. It’s the closest socially acceptable approximation to gladiatorial combat young men in our modern civilized world can pursue, and as such, it tends …

BYAlex Hollings

Oct 23, 2021

BYUnited States Army

Apr 29, 2020

‘Spoiled brat’ says Army put him in his place

“I have no idea why I joined the Army,” said Spc. Ken Park, a soldier with the 414th Civil Affairs Battalion, based out of Southfield, Michigan. “My parents were extremely against it. I was a spoiled brat. I was fat.” Park came from what …

BYUnited States Army

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

US Marines practice maneuvers that should keep China on its toes

Everything that is old may indeed be new again. During World War II, US Marines moved from island to island, fighting bloody battles against entrenched Japanese forces determined to dominate the Pacific. Now, as the possibility of conflict wit…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020