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Americans cannot forget that 2,500 of their sons and daughters are deployed to Iraq.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles ‘CQ’ Brown Jr. was frank in assessing his progress on transforming the service.

He’s not actually trying to hit you up on Instagram

Some piracy lessons may be in order

The movies that make you want to shout “f*ck yeah!”

The Pentagon is trying to find other ways to send munitions.

If you’ve served in the U.S. military, you probably have a story about mold.

Florida, man.

“I feel like I’m still there. I feel like everything that happened, happened five minutes ago.”

The service hopes this will prevent any more confusion.

Steven Carrillo will simultaneously serve a sentence for killing a federal agent.

The unmanned surface vessels will help the Navy test new autonomous ship technology.

When a suicide bomber started the last fight of the War in Afghanistan, these troops rushed to respond.

It’s the latest use of the military to help fill in staffing shortages.

“Wearing the suit really helped a lot, especially with getting the rounds out of the back of the truck. It felt like it gave me an extra boost.”

No, really. Please help.

Technical in a box.

Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee put herself in harms way to help evacuate Afghans.

In 1986, a U.S. Air Force FB-111A ferried a heart transplant from Oklahoma to Connecticut in two hours to save a patient.

"Hopefully they got the message loud and clear and this will be an episode vs. a continuation."