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R. Lee Ermey, Marine Corps Drill Instructor Turned Iconic Actor, Will Be Buried At Arlington

Army Moving Forward With Case Against Green Beret Charged With Killing Suspected Taliban Bomb-Maker

The Brits Found The Wreck Of A Continental Navy Warship. Now They’re Plotting Their Revenge

Meet The Army Helicopter Pilot Who Re-Supplied Thousands Of Hippies At Woodstock

Jim Webb As Trump’s Defense Secretary Would Be A Nightmare For Both

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The Hero WWII Paratrooper Who Once Tricked 15,000 Germans Into Surrendering Has Died

Trump Reportedly Considering Vietnam War Hero Jim Webb For Defense Secretary

US Troops And Veterans Think We’ve Been In Iraq And Afghanistan For Too Damn Long

Watch Trump’s Episode Of ‘Drunk History’ About The Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan

The Best Melee Weapons In US Military History, Ranked

‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ Shows The Essence Of Grunt Life Hasn’t Changed Much Since WWI

Army Charges Green Beret With Murder For Killing Suspected Taliban Bomb-Maker In 2010

‘He Was A Warrior’ — Watch Airmen Hold An Emotional Viking Funeral For Fallen Combat Controller Dylan Elchin

American History Can Be A Pain To Absorb. This Historian’s Work Is Anything But

Paul Bremer, A Foil For Iraq War F*ckups, Has Suddenly Become A Favorite Internet Meme

What America’s Wars Revealed About Their Commanders-In-Chief

A Vietnam Veteran Reflects On A Coma-Induced Adventure To The Brink Of Death

Police Officer Won’t Face Charges After Fatally Shooting Vietnam Vet Defending Himself Against A Home Intruder

The Extended Trailer For Peter Jackson’s New World War I Documentary Is Epic

Why ‘The Pacific’ is legions better than ‘Band Of Brothers’

7 things you probably didn’t know about Thanksgiving and the military

‘Battlefield V’ is a buggy, yet totally fun return to World War II

Manila Massacred: Remembering One of the Pacific War’s Nastiest Battles

Army Plans To Charge Green Beret For Alleged Murder Of Taliban Bomb-Maker, Attorney Says

Even The Romans Were Better At Doing Counterinsurgency Than We Are

Army Adopts World War II ‘Pink And Greens’ Uniform For All Soldiers

‘You know the sacrifice now’ — 2 post-9/11 Medal of Honor recipients on the importance of war stories

On A CIA Mission In Laos This Airman Held Off An Assault For Hours With Just A Radio And An M-16

2 Powerful Quotes About Civility From An Iraq War Veteran

My Son Was Killed In Iraq. I Found Closure With The Marines Who Were With Him When He Died

Norwegian Commando Who Led Daring Raid To Thwart Nazi Atomic Program Dead At 99

Marine Commandant: Beirut Barracks Attack ‘Changed The Way We Saw The World’

The Army Tried To Bury A Critical Report On All Its Failings In The Iraq War

Remembering The 2 Army Rangers Who Were The First Combat-Related Deaths Of The Afghan War

The Biggest Equalizer In The Military Is A Piss Tube In The Middle Of The Iraqi Desert

The CIA had a top-secret manual to help U-2 pilots avoid crapping their pants at 70,000 feet

Eisenhower On ‘Leading From Within’ And The Art Of Collaborative Leadership

New Graphic Novel Series Recounts The Heroics Of Legendary Army Medal Of Honor Recipients

Heroic Vietnam Veteran Receives Medal Of Honor For Saving More Than 20 Marines

Peter Jackson’s New Documentary Shows World War I As You’ve Never Seen It Before

Happy Birthday, Navy! You’re 243 Years Old But Don’t Look A Day Over 97

The Top American General In Vietnam Considered Using Nukes During The Siege Of Khe Sanh, New Documents Reveal

‘They Could Have Run But Did Not’: Read John Kelly’s Letter For 2 Heroic Marines Who Stopped A Suicide Bomber

‘For Heavens Sake Stop It’: How A WWI Army Officer Stopped Friendly Fire From Hitting His Men

Netflix Just Announced A ‘Medal Of Honor’ Series That Recreates Some Of The Most Incredible Acts Of Valor From WWII To Post-9/11

5 Little-Known Facts About Washington And That Winter In Valley Forge

Marine Sergeant Major To Receive Medal Of Honor For Risking His Life To Save Wounded Comrades In Vietnam

My Worst Day: In Iraq, When The Approval To Fire Came 10 Seconds Too Late

Project To Build Vietnam War Museum On National Mall Shuttered Amid Allegations Of Malfeasance

Full Metal Racket: How An Honest Bid To Preserve The Legacy Of Vietnam Sold Out

How A Failure Of Decision-Making Put The US On A Road To Disaster In Vietnam

How The ‘Golden Hour’ Created A Crisis In Care For The Deployed Warfighter

Happy 17th Birthday To The Forever War

‘I Was Sh*tting All Over Their Country’: Doing My Doody On An Iraqi Roadside

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