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What’s the most annoying uniform item you have to wear?
Culture

What’s the most annoying uniform item you have to wear?

The vexing. The crappy. The annoying.

Fears of an EMP attack are overblown. It’s what comes next that should worry you
News

Fears of an EMP attack are overblown. It’s what comes next that should worry you

It's not the EMP that's the biggest threat, it's what comes after.

Col. Own Ray
News

Retired Army colonel found guilty of assault and harassment for 2020 domestic violence incident

Retired Col. Owen Ray was arrested in 2020 after a domestic violence incident that resulted in a standoff with police.

maintainers
News

How Air Force maintainers achieved a rare perfect inspection on a 49-year-old aircraft

“This rarely happens, especially on an aircraft nearly a half-century old.”

USS Niimitz
News

Navy finds jet fuel in USS Nimitz drinking water days after declaring it safe

Navy officials said Tuesday that the USS Nimitz’s scheduled underway date has been postponed.

The Air Force has finally rescued a stranded Osprey aircraft from a remote Norwegian island
News

The Air Force has finally rescued a stranded Osprey aircraft from a remote Norwegian island

Bad weather and a delicate terrain presented a series of challenges in recovering the downed tiltrotor craft.

DART
News

Meet the NASA team that’s replaced Hollywood as America’s chief rogue asteroid defense

Team Earth, f–k yeah!

Watch the Air Force break a ship in half with a single bomb in new video
News

Watch the Air Force break a ship in half with a single bomb in new video

One bomb, one sunken ship.

The Department of Energy had a nuclear commando task force in the 1980s that looked straight out of ‘Counter Strike’
History

The Department of Energy had a nuclear commando task force in the 1980s that looked straight out of ‘Counter Strike’

These are the security forces protecting nuclear sites in the United States.

Russia’s ‘partial mobilization’ of civilians is going about as well as you’d expect
News

Russia’s ‘partial mobilization’ of civilians is going about as well as you’d expect

“We know our government lies to us. We are just meat for them.”

Why this US military command’s mascot is a winged seahorse named ‘Spunky’
Culture

Why this US military command’s mascot is a winged seahorse named ‘Spunky’

Nobody delivers an anti-armor rocket system like Spunky the winged seahorse.

Camp Pendleton
News

Why hundreds of Camp Pendleton Marines have been stuck in sweltering hot barracks for years

Another barracks problem.

2 service members sentenced to prison for smuggling people into the US from Mexico
News

2 service members sentenced to prison for smuggling people into the US from Mexico

They were in uniform…

The Marine Corps’ new littoral combat team is changing the Marine rifle squad
News

The Marine Corps’ new littoral combat team is changing the Marine rifle squad

“It really makes all those maritime operations and makes jungle environment operations … easier.”

Watch the US Air Force, Navy and their British counterparts turn a warship into a fireball
News

Watch the US Air Force, Navy and their British counterparts turn a warship into a fireball

The joint exercise saw the decommissioned frigate get bombarded by an array of missiles off the coast of Scotland.

The CIA put a model of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s home in its museum
Culture

The CIA put a model of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s home in its museum

The model of the Kabul house was used to brief President Biden ahead of the July assassination mission.

What’s the strangest name for an operation you participated in?
Military Life

What’s the strangest name for an operation you participated in?

For every Operation Enduring Freedom there's an Operation Panther Squeeze.

This was the Army’s Cold War plan for a war on the Moon, and the weapons it’d use to win it
History

This was the Army’s Cold War plan for a war on the Moon, and the weapons it’d use to win it

In 1965 the Army imagined a quick reaction force armed with dart-firing space guns.

Political candidate accused of stolen valor claims his deployments are ‘classified’
News

Political candidate accused of stolen valor claims his deployments are ‘classified’

J.R. Majewski has repeatedly said he was in combat situations in Afghanistan. His record shows no evidence of that.

Tank warfare
News

Tank warfare is still relevant, even if the Russians suck at it

Russia’s horrific losses in Ukraine are not the death knell of tank warfare.