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11 of the best military books we read this year

Pies line a table in a dining facility where U.S. Army Paratroopers, Company D, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, and Polish paratroopers, 6th Airborne Battalion, 16th Airborne Brigade, eat a Thanksgiving themed dinner in Wedrzyn, Poland, Nov. 23, 2016

We found the Army’s official pumpkin pie recipe and it’s actually not bad

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn exits a vehicle as he arrives for his sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., December 18, 2018.

Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn

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You’re married – now what? A simple guide to packing your parachute

Benjamin Abel and Eric Ellingson, his brother-in-law, prior to a parachute jump at Raeford West Drop Zone in North Carolina, in 1998.

‘You either went to war or you didn’t’ — How deployments divide the veteran community

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We salute these Marines for saving the life of a woman trapped underneath a car

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11 of the best military books we read this year

Benjamin Abel and Eric Ellingson, his brother-in-law, prior to a parachute jump at Raeford West Drop Zone in North Carolina, in 1998.

‘You either went to war or you didn’t’ — How deployments divide the veteran community

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The unanswered questions from Australia’s harrowing war crimes report

Will American history forget the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?

Acting SecDef Miller is rewriting the history of the Vietnam War as the US looks for the exit in Afghanistan

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A new Army policy is changing the way deployed or pregnant NCOs are promoted

Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) render side honors as they pass by the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63). Cowpens is part of the George Washington Carrier Strike Group, the US Navy's only forward deployed carrier strike group, based out of Yokosuka, Japan, and is conducting a routine western Pacific Ocean patrol.

Russia claims it chased off a US Navy destroyer after threatening to ram it

Vice President Joseph Biden speaks at the Multi National Force Iraq Naturalization Ceremony at Al Faw Palace, Victory Base Complex, Baghdad, Iraq, July 4. Biden and MNF-I Commander Gen. Raymond Odierno were the guest speakers at the event

The Pentagon is now officially planning for a Biden administration

Soldiers at Fort Pickett, Virginia test the Microsoft-designed prototype goggle known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS)

How the Army's futuristic new goggles are changing the mechanics of shooting, according to soldiers

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Former Texas Army Guard soldier gets prison time for selling $2 million in military gear on eBay

Russian, Chinese and Mongolian national flags set on armored vehicles develop in the wind during a military exercises on training ground "Tsugol", about 250 kilometers (156 miles ) south-east of the city of Chita during the military exercises Vostok 2018 in Eastern Siberia, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. The weeklong Vostok (East) 2018 maneuvers launched Tuesday span vast expanses of Siberia and the Far East, the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans. They involve nearly 300,000 Russian troops along with 1,000 Russian aircraft and 36,000 tanks and other combat vehicles.

The US is only 'marginally' ready for a war with Russia or China, new assessment finds

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Israeli tank flips over in possible first-ever IDF WTF Moment

Captain America, reporting for duty

Chechen strongman orders purge of all images of American superheroes from playgrounds

Retired Navy Adm. William McRaven with a Rip-It

Obama gave Adm. McRaven a gift after the SEALs took out bin Laden: A tape measure

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‘Toxic’ command climate was a factor in the NAS Pensacola shooting, investigation finds

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3 Marines and a porn star, all white supremacists, charged in federal gun conspiracy

Grafitti on a curbstone stone regrets problem of veteran's suicides.

Veteran died hours after 2 calls to suicide hotline went unheeded, Inspector General finds

Capt. Brett DeVries, an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot of the 107th Fighter Squadron from Selfridge Air National Guard Base, poses next to the aircraft he safely landed after a malfunction forced him to make an emergency landing July 20 at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center.

Watch this A-10 pilot pull off a ballsy landing without landing gear or canopy

Photos of Marine veteran and Medal of Honor Recipient Kyle Carpenter.

Watch Medal of Honor hero Kyle Carpenter celebrate his ‘Alive Day’ in this remarkable video

An F-22 Raptor deploys flares in 2008

US military aircraft readiness rates are in the toilet. Here's how bad the situation is

WC-135 Constant Phoenix tail number 582 departs here for the final time Nov. 16, 2002, for Greenville, Texas, where parts of it will be taken off before it heads to the boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The 45th Reconnaissance Squadron has flown the aircraft roughly more than 1,300 times to include more than 29,000 flight hours, with members of Detachment 1, Air Force Technical Applications Center serving as special equipment operators collecting particulates and gaseous effluents and debris across the globe.

‘You are the reason I drink’ — Airmen bid adieu to decrepit aircraft dubbed ‘Lucifer’s Chariot’

U.S. Army Spc. Genesis Miranda, assigned to 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera), conducts the Hand Release Push-Up during the 2020 Headquarters Department of the Army Best Warrior Competition at Fort George G Meade, Maryland Sep. 19, 2020.

Servicewomen's advocacy group says the ACFT could deal 'irreparable damage' to the Army

Marine veterans Daniel Harris (left) and Joseph Morrison (right)

Y'all Qaeda: Ex-Marines allegedly planned takeover of Michigan capitol and public executions of officials

Mobs of Vietnamese people scale the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, trying to get to the helicopter pickup zone, just before the end of the Vietnam War on April 29, 1975.

Acting SecDef Miller is rewriting the history of the Vietnam War as the US looks for the exit in Afghanistan

A Supacat Light Role Vehicle (LRV), an example of a light reconnaissance vehicle

The Army is hunting for a new all-electric light recon vehicle

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Specialist's winning idea in Army innovation challenge will 'save time and money'

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The Army's 'complete failure' led to this private's suicide after she was sexually assaulted, parents say

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The Air Force is picking up a handful of feisty new submachine guns

A group of U.S. Soldiers walks along the road at sunset in Taji, Iraq, March 8, 2016. The Soldiers are serving in Iraq as part of an international coalition that is working to destroy Daesh, also known as the Islamic State.

The Army is reconsidering thousands of bad paper discharges of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans