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Missiles

What it takes to join the Air Force’s 24/7 ‘SWAT’ team for nuclear missile fields

Need to storm a nuclear alert facility? This is the team you need.

News

Military successfully drained fuel pipelines linking Red Hill to Pearl Harbor

Crews cleared the fuel pipelines linking the base to the facility that contaminated drinking water in Hawaii.

Space Force

Space Force’s secretive X-37B plane has spent more than 900 days in orbit

The small space plane has been conducting a series of experiments from the upper atmosphere for the last two years.

Vehicles

Soldiers are finally getting a ‘robotic mule’ to haul all their heavy sh*t for them

Kiss all that garbage you’re forced to ruck with goodbye.

Drone Swarms

The Navy wants to turn submarines into ‘UUV motherships’

That plan depends on being able to recover the drones through torpedo tubes.

Ukraine

Watch a lone Ukrainian paratrooper single-handedly knock out a Russian tank

The video captures why Ukraine is doing so well.

Army

Fort Riley specialist charged with stabbing fellow soldier to death

The indictment stems from an August assault that left multiple people injured.

Middle East

American woman gets 20 years in prison for training and leading all-female ISIS battalion

Her team trained girls as young as 10 to use automatic weapons and suicide belts.

Europe

The US is sending tanks to Ukraine, just not American ones

This is the first time that the United States has included tanks in its military assistance to Ukraine.

Army

Netflix documentary shows Vanessa Guillén’s family’s fight for answers in the wake of her murder

“This was not one of those cases the military could sweep under the rug.”

Mandatory Fun

We salute the Marine who got promoted at a fried chicken restaurant on base

Sweet, tasty promotion.

Air Force

Air Force claims ‘no intent by the pilots’ to draw sky penis near Russian base in Syria

Sometimes miracles happen.

Air Force

Air Force C-17 crew receives Distinguished Flying Cross for hauling record 823 people to safety during Kabul airlift

“Eight hundred people on your jet? Holy … holy cow.”

Iran

Why the US still has not defeated ISIS in Iraq and Syria, according to a new report

More than three years after losing its caliphate, ISIS is down but it’s certainly not out.

Vietnam War

That time Air Force surgeons disarmed a ‘human bomb’ in Vietnam

All in a day’s work.

News

Letter from the editor: The next chapter at Task & Purpose

I'm excited to announce I've returned to Task & Purpose as the next editor-in-chief.

Army

The Army screwed over soldiers in an enlistment bonus fraud investigation. Now it’s trying to fix it

“It is clear that we fell short in a large number of these investigations.”

Rescue

Inside the Army school where helicopter pilots learn the dangerous art of mountain flying

Welcome to 'High School.'

Army

We salute the Army tank crew that named their tank ‘come on bro’

Bro. Bro. Come on, bro.

Indo-Pacific

North Korea’s ballistic missile barrage signals a potentially dangerous escalation

North Korea fired a ballistic missile into South Korean waters for the first time since World War II.