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“There’s just no other way to say it: It’s the Army’s fault.”

Friends don’t let friends scooter drunk.

Captured and tortured by the Germans, this American paratrooper escaped his POW camp and fought alongside the Soviets as they marched to Berlin.

The Air Force usually leaves water business to the Coast Guard and Navy, but four airmen flipped the script by rescuing eight civilians whose boat capsized in Tampa Bay.

Stolen valor.

“You’re always looking for something to feel good about on deployments, especially when they’re rough. And he was that something for me.”

The Air Force tends to value technical proficiency as a mark of leadership, but that may be leaving noncommissioned officers without the right people skills.

The investigation found his comments did not constitute misconduct.

Sign me up for that.

A machine gun-toting rabbit may seem like an unusual choice for a mascot, but whimsy is a common feature of Air Force shoulder patches.

“They knew we were coming.”

Even in death, the F-35 continues to serve.

It might be time to try something different.

A comedian named Caroline Kennedy asked her fiancé, an Air Force F-35 pilot, all the fighter pilot questions the rest of us are too afraid to think about asking.

No cause of death was reported, but foul play or suicide are not suspected.

The Navy is reviewing whether or not to even decide to recover the jet.

Brand new HIMARS are sharing the field with World War I-style trenches and repurposed old motorcycles.

The USS Scranton’s now ex-CO joins more than half a dozen other officers relieved of command.

“If I have a soldier that’s been in the Army for five years, you can’t buy back that experience from them.”

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