Latest Military Life Stories
All alone, together: The emotional essence of Christmas at war
Christmas in, Christmas out: A holiday deployment story
What it’s like to spend Christmas in combat, according to US military veterans
The time machine: How life on a Navy submarine distorts your sense of space and time
The Air Force’s top enlisted leader wants to ‘take away the stigma’ of beard waivers
The Pentagon is not fully tracking mold, asbestos, and other serious health risks in its privatized housing, watchdog report says
‘I’m about to die’ — Former Army paratrooper describes surviving a jump with a broken parachute
9 questions with Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston
10 questions only a veteran would ask Green Beret-turned-football legend Nate Boyer
How a Navy ‘assault team’ once stole all four of West Point’s treasured mules
Four sailors have committed suicide at a Navy maintenance center since October
The Army is bringing the ‘Be All You Can Be’ slogan back
Combat medic ‘voluntold’ to attend Army Best Squad competition ends up dominating the range
The Space Force won a ‘Call of Duty’ tournament and then the trophy got launched into space
Lawsuit accuses VA of denying Black veterans their benefits for decades
American soldiers are currently training high up in the Himalayan Mountains
The 4th Infantry Division staged a massive physical challenge honoring its past and accidentally tear gassed itself
All-mom flight of Air Force F-15 fighter pilots takes to the skies
The Air Force’s admin software is so bad that the top enlisted airman is trolling it
The Pentagon wants to hear from military families with special needs
This is what the US military’s first ‘DD-214’ looked like
What Americans are getting wrong about veterans
The Army Reserve chief wants leaders to stop wasting soldiers’ drill time on paperwork
All the ways Marines will let you know it’s the Corps’ birthday
These are the veterans elected to Congress for the first time during the midterms
Military successfully drained fuel pipelines linking Red Hill to Pearl Harbor
Netflix documentary shows Vanessa Guillén’s family’s fight for answers in the wake of her murder
The Army screwed over soldiers in an enlistment bonus fraud investigation. Now it’s trying to fix it
The US military is still struggling to figure out social media
These Air Force commandos saved troops under fire for years. Now they are fighting to save their buddies
‘They’re judge and they’re jury’ — How the military’s malpractice claims process is failing troops and families
The Marine Corps’ fitness test from the 1950s wasn’t that hard
Military leaders urge Americans to help them overcome ‘misperceptions’ of military service
Healthcare, the economy, reproductive rights: what matters most to veterans in the midterm elections
COVID-19 had an ‘appalling’ impact on American students’ test scores. That’s bad news for the military
Soldiers are finally out of Fort Bragg’s moldy barracks
The Pentagon is changing how it talks about suicide
Pentagon to help pay for troops to travel out of state for abortion care
The Army needs to get better at recruiting PSYOP soldiers, general says
The Air Force is testing a new exoskeleton to lighten the load for airmen
The Navy’s contaminated drinking water crisis is only getting worse
The Army’s new pre-basic-training boot camp might actually build better soldiers
From ‘intense darkness’ to the Army’s NCO of the Year: How this medic made an example of himself
Sgt. Maj. of the Army to leaders: Stop using behavioral health as a universal band-aid for problems
Veterans and reservists make up nearly 30% of political candidates who question the 2020 election
Soldiers say goodbye to beloved military working dog who saved lives in Afghanistan
Army Secretary tells leaders to stand up for soldiers ‘IRL or online’ after telling them to stay out of ‘culture wars’
It’s time for stormtroopers to have a gritty ‘Star Wars’ movie of their own
Army considering height and weight exemptions based on fitness test score
A Marine recruit died on Camp Pendleton. The Marine Corps waited 11 days to announce his death
Who gets to call themselves a ‘combat veteran’?
The Sergeant Major of the Army knows what you’ve heard about the service. He’s working on it
The VA, Department of the Navy launch gun lock program to combat active-duty suicides
This armored brigade is now the most modernized in the Army
Lawmakers want to replace ‘thank you for your service’ with something even more meaningless
Guess how many burpees it took for this Marine to break a Guinness World Record
How a call to the VA’s crisis hotline may have helped rescue 2 US vets captured in Ukraine
US Army fails to meet its recruitment goal by 15,000 soldiers
Woman recalls the time a retired Marine general ‘saved my life’ as a college student in an abusive relationship
How coffee helped the Union army win the Civil War
Navy finds jet fuel in USS Nimitz drinking water days after declaring it safe
Russia’s ‘partial mobilization’ of civilians is going about as well as you’d expect
Why hundreds of Camp Pendleton Marines have been stuck in sweltering hot barracks for years
The Marine Corps’ new littoral combat team is changing the Marine rifle squad
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