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News

‘Wise Guy’ flies again — How the Air Force got a 60-year-old B-52 back up and running

By David Roza

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Culture

What’s one scene from a war movie that just gets *it* right?

By James Clark

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News

No, the ‘presidential salute’ isn’t a thing — and neither is the ‘vice presidential salute’

By James Clark

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Culture

Here’s Why ‘The Hurt Locker’ Is The Worst War Movie Of All Time

By James Clark

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News

Iran’s alleged suicide boat plot against Washington DC is far-fetched as hell

By Jeff Schogol

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News

The Army is trying to make ‘warrior restaurant’ happen, and it’s not gonna happen

By Paul Szoldra

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News

$88 billion and 20 years later, the Afghan security forces are still no match for the Taliban

By Jeff Schogol

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Tech & Tactics

Microdrones, AI, and VR glasses: A sneak peek into the future of war and how we’ll train for it

By August Cole and P.W. Singer

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News

20 years into the War in Afghanistan, the US is in the same position as the Soviets when they lost

By Jeff Schogol

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News

Troop levels, airstrikes, COVID vaccinations — How the Pentagon continually fails at transparency

By Jeff Schogol

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News

US troops are the political football politicians love to spike

By Haley Britzky

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News

The truth about false sexual assault reports in the military

By Haley Britzky

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News

‘I reacted on instinct’ — How a Marine rescued a child from drowning in a brutal rip current

By Paul Szoldra

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News

Constant mobilizations may be pushing the National Guard to the brink

By Jeff Schogol

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News

Just How ‘Political’ Can — And Should — Service Members Get?

By Jeff Schogol

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News

America’s most important base was breached by a guy wearing a weird mouse hat

By David Roza

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News

The United States risks getting into another Cold War with China

By Jeff Schogol

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News

6 Marine Corps ‘Rules’ That Are Not Actually Regulations

By James Clark

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News

This is your brain on war

By Adam Linehan

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News

The Afghanistan withdrawal ‘agreement’ may not be as firm as it sounds

By Jeff Schogol

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News

How the Army combat fitness test exposes the military’s unhealthy focus on ‘making weight’

By Haley Britzky

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News

‘Royal Marines… Beer with lunch’ — These are the foreign militaries that US troops love to train with

By David Roza

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News

The National Guard is getting roasted which is more than we can say for the food soldiers are getting at the Capitol

By Haley Britzky

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News

The Navy tried to cast Capt. Brett Crozier as a villain. New emails reveal how much support he really had

By Jeff Schogol

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News

The Space Force is actually asking its Guardians to choose their own rank insignia

By David Roza

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News

Why it took us nearly a year to tell the full story of what happened to Navy Capt. Brett Crozier

By Jeff Schogol

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News

Read the emails that reveal how Capt. Brett Crozier fought both COVID-19 and the Navy

By Jeff Schogol

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News

‘I serve as an example of what is possible’ — Top-ranking Black Army leaders reflect on their battles with racism

By Haley Britzky

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Culture

‘12 Strong’ Isn’t The Afghan War Movie We Deserve, But It’s The One We Want

By Adam Linehan

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News

The Air Force preaches ‘zero tolerance’ of sexual assault. So why is it retaining an airman guilty of it?

By David Roza

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News

The Navy’s surface fleet is turning into a floating advertisement for Rust-Oleum

By Jeff Schogol

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News

A shaving profile might be bad for your Air Force career

By David Roza

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Culture

That one scene in ‘Heat’ that gave audiences the most realistic firefight in movie history

By James Clark and Paul Szoldra

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News

Why it’s so difficult for the military to weed out extremists

By Jeff Schogol

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History

Fighting to go home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 years later

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News

Biden gets his first Middle East airstrikes out of the way

By Jeff Schogol

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History

Paul Bremer, Ski Instructor: Learning To Shred With The Bush Administration’s Iraq War Fall Guy

By Aaron Gell

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News

The Navy has lost more sailors to COVID-19 in February than in all of 2020

By Jeff Schogol

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News

The Pentagon says there’s no data on troops refusing vaccines. One general just proved them wrong

By Jeff Schogol

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News

How a viral video could force a cultural reckoning in the Marine Corps

By Paul Szoldra

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News

The Army’s sexual assault prevention program is broken. These soldiers have ideas on how to fix it

By Haley Britzky

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Military Life

No, military women are not getting pregnant to avoid deployment

By David Roza

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News

The Marine Corps’ ban on hands in pockets centers around the possible misuse of a semicolon

By James Clark

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News

Trump’s tax break could hurt enlisted service members next year when the IRS docks their pay

By Jeff Schogol

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News

Everything you should know when buying a car after deployment

By Jonathon Klein

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Military Life

Rural Veterans In Need Of Care Face Uncertainty, Isolation

By James Clark

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News

Photo from Texas blizzard looks like it was taken during an old-timey arctic expedition

By James Clark

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News

No, covering Trump was not like landing at Omaha Beach

By Jeff Schogol

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Tech & Tactics

Mosquitos suck, so which repellent is best to deter them: Deet or Picaridin?

By Jonathon Klein

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News

Scores for the Army’s new fitness test may not end up ‘gender-neutral’ after all

By Haley Britzky

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News

Legendary Porn Prince Weighs In On ‘Marines United’ Nude-Photo-Sharing Scandal

By Jared Keller

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News

A special operations course accidentally adopted a right-wing militia symbol as its logo

By Jeff Schogol

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News

The Dark Side Of America’s ‘Train, Advise, And Assist’ Missions

By James Fahy

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News

3 Ways To Navigate A Toxic Command Climate

By Brock Young

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News

An internal investigation spurred by a nude photo scandal shows just how deep sexism runs in the Marine Corps

By Paul Szoldra

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News

The financial cost of the Jan. 6 insurrection is nearly half a billion dollars so far

By Jeff Schogol

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News

No enemy has downed an Air Force AC-130 gunship in 30 years. Here’s why

By David Roza

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News

The Pentagon’s extremism stand down is not enough

By Jeff Schogol

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News

How do Air Force special operations work behind enemy lines?

By Patrick Baker

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News

What this Looney Tunes painting can teach us about the Global War on Terror

By David Roza

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News

The Army can’t officially say who is an ‘Army Ranger’

By James Clark

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News

Insider attacks against US troops in Afghanistan have dropped to a historic low. Here’s why

By Jared Keller

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News

Will the US finally get the hell out of Afghanistan once and for all?

By Jeff Schogol

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News

The Taliban says they won the war in Afghanistan. They are not wrong

By Jeff Schogol

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