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May 13, 2021

This is how you decontaminate a ‘slimed’ helicopter

If you hear of something getting “slimed,” you might be thinking about the green slime that has been a standby of Nickeloeon for decades. Well, if you’re talking to grunts, the word “slimed” can be something much more sinister.

BYHarold C. Hutchison

May 13, 2021

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Apr 21, 2021

This is how the Iranian hostage crisis changed American history

The basic story goes like this. On November 4, 1979, Iranian radicals stormed the American embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. The hostages were held for 444 days, and not released until minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugur…

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Apr 21, 2021

BYOrvelin Valle

Mar 26, 2021

The men who survived Benghazi tell their story in ’13 Hours’

’13 Hours’ tells the minute-by-minute story of the men who lived through the Benghazi attacks by focusing on what happened on the ground, not the politics. When everything went wrong, they had the courage to do what they had to do. This…

BYOrvelin Valle

Mar 26, 2021

BYBlake Stilwell

Mar 19, 2021

This Nigerian woman stopped hunting antelope to shoot terrorists

For the terrorist group whose name translates to “Western Education is Forbidden,” Aisha Bakari Gombi’s name means getting schooled on the battlegrounds of sub-Saharan Africa. “Boko Haram know me and fear me,” says Gombi. Gomb…

BYBlake Stilwell

Mar 19, 2021

BYBlake Stilwell

Mar 9, 2021

6 miraculous operations of the Israel Defense Forces

There is a lot to say about Israel and its Defense Forces. Like most armed forces in the world, it has a significant history, even despite its relative youth. And like all armed forces in the world, not all of this history is good (despite what some…

BYBlake Stilwell

Mar 9, 2021

BYMary-Elizabeth Pratt

Mar 8, 2021

The Coast Guard rescued half a million New Yorkers from the 9/11 terror attacks

The U.S. Coast Guard was on scene just over an hour after the first plane hit during the 9/11 attacks. Members of the service evacuated half a million people from Lower Manhattan and stayed on to help clean up New York. <p class="sho…

BYMary-Elizabeth Pratt

Mar 8, 2021

BYBlake Stilwell

Mar 5, 2021

How this squeegee handle saved 6 people on 9/11

Necessity is the mother of invention. Sometimes, the military translates this axiom as “if it’s stupid and it works, it isn’t stupid.” So while the idea of this simple window washing tool saving lives sounds silly, there are six people who sure …

BYBlake Stilwell

Mar 5, 2021

BYTim Kirkpatrick

Mar 1, 2021

That time Germany bombed New York but it was blamed on insects

Typically, when there’s a deadly terrorist attack, the tragic news spreads around the world almost instantly and hangs in the global consciousness for years to come. But history shows us that covering up one of these terrible events might be as eas…

BYTim Kirkpatrick

Mar 1, 2021

BYEric Milzarski

Feb 26, 2021

This is how a British sniper took out six terrorists with one shot

Snipers live by the mantra of “one shot, one kill.” Whenever they find themselves in combat, they must remain true to this law. They can take whatever time they need to calculate all the variables, but they have to make it count. That single shot …

BYEric Milzarski

Feb 26, 2021

BYOrvelin Valle

Jan 21, 2021

‘Key and Peele’ hilariously show why terrorists hate the TSA

The 9/11 terrorist attacks launched the war on terrorism and ruined air travel as we knew it. You used to be able to get through security in less than 15 minutes, but with the creation of the Transportation Security Administration the pr…

BYOrvelin Valle

Jan 21, 2021

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Feb 5, 2020

ISIS has reportedly captured two Turkish soldiers

The fate of two Turkish soldiers now hangs in the balance as they have become the unwilling guests of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (also known as ISIS). Supporters of the terrorist group have reportedly been debating what to do wi…

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Feb 5, 2020

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Feb 5, 2020

This is the Air Force vet who forced KSM to reveal his darkest secrets

James Mitchell had a successful 22-year career in the U.S. Air Force — most notably as a top trainer at the Air Force’s survival school — before retiring as a lieutenant colonel. And while he earned some awards and accolades for h…

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Feb 5, 2020

BYThe Conversation

Apr 29, 2020

Why Canada must prosecute returning ISIS fighters

Human rights champion Nadia Murad was recently co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In August 2014, Murad’s village in…

BYThe Conversation

Apr 29, 2020

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

These are the new ‘most-wanted’ al-Qaeda terrorists

Osama bin Laden is dead. ISIS has been disbursed to the winds. Al-Baghdadi saw the wrong side of Army Special Forces. That means it’s open season on terrorists’ most-wanted leaders. Since no one usually wants to carry this mantle, the United State…

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

What changes when drug cartels are listed as foreign terrorists

Earlier in 2019, President Trump wanted to send U.S. troops into Mexico to assist the Mexican government in fighting drug cartel violence. But even after the brutal killing of an American family in Mexico, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obr…

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

BYBlake Stilwell

Jun 30, 2018

Damages for the sailors killed on the USS Cole goes to the Supreme Court

In 2000, the USS Cole arrived at the port of Aden, Yemen to refuel. The destroyer was part of the the U.S. Navy mission of enforcing sanctions against Iraq. It was only scheduled to stop for four hours. She would not leave Aden under her ow…

BYBlake Stilwell

Jun 30, 2018

BYEric Milzarski

May 2, 2018

Why May 2nd, 2011, was one of the greatest days in the military

Shortly after 1 a.m. PKT on May 2nd, 2011, Operation Neptune Spear was a go and the founder of al-Qaeda and mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, Osama bin Laden, was killed by SEAL Team Six in a CIA-led and 160th Special Operations Airborne…

BYEric Milzarski

May 2, 2018

BYIan D'Costa

Jan 28, 2019

This is how French commandos saved Christmas in Paris in 1994

On December 26, 1994, millions of shoppers across North America rushed to malls in an attempt to make the most of post-Christmas sales. Across the Atlantic Ocean, at an airport in Marseille, France, a small group of men decked out from head to toe i…

BYIan D'Costa

Jan 28, 2019

BYShannon Corbeil

Feb 5, 2020

Two vets went into a combat zone to make this film

In 2017, two vets went into an active war zone to document testimonies from survivors of the Yazidi genocide begun by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) in August 2014.

BYShannon Corbeil

Feb 5, 2020

BYBen Weaver

Mar 31, 2018

Victims of the 1983 Beirut bombing will finally be compensated

A federal judge has awarded a $920 million judgment to 80 victims of the 1983 bombing of a Beirut USMC barracks. The judgment is against the government…

BYBen Weaver

Mar 31, 2018

BYJames Elphick

Jan 28, 2019

That time terrorists seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca

1979 was a tumultuous year in the Islamic world. The year opened with the overthrow of the Shah and a revolution in Iran. The year ended with chaos in Islam’s holy city of Mecca when

BYJames Elphick

Jan 28, 2019

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Mar 31, 2018

Nigeria just bought the JF-17 Thunder to blast Boko Haram

The Nigerian military has been fighting the radical Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram since 2009. Now, Nigeria is getting some new firepower to deal with the group made infamous by kidnapping over 200 girls from a school in Chibok in 2014. <hr…

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Mar 31, 2018

BYTim Kirkpatrick

May 6, 2018

9 ISIS weapon fails that you have to see to believe

Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you. Sounds simple, right? Apparently not for terrorists. Most of them don’t thoroughly study their weapon systems before employing that power on the battlefield. There are a…

BYTim Kirkpatrick

May 6, 2018

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Feb 5, 2020

This is what a Mexican cartel has done to up its drone game

A Mexican drug cartel, the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, or CJNG, has been caught with a kamikaze-style drone, marking an escalation of the threat posed by the non-state actors. The drone was discovered when Mexican police arrested four men in …

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Feb 5, 2020