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Korea

Train like you fight: Watch a North Korean soldier smash concrete with his head

'North Korean propaganda, when it comes to this stuff, is just more over the top.'

Mandatory Fun

We salute this Army first sergeant for looking exactly how we’ve all felt in the field

Meet Army 1st Sgt. Kenneth "By God" Johnson.

Opinion

Opinion: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin must resign

Resignation won’t atone for lives lost, or the debacle that American involvement in Afghanistan became, but it would at least demonstrate an understanding of professional ethics.

Air Force

‘Many died on the operating table’ — What Air Force search and rescue witnessed during the Kabul airport attack

"The hair on the back of your necks should be standing up."

Navy

Sailors injured after nuclear submarine crashes into submerged object in the Pacific

About 11 crew members were injured.

Navy

An FBI sting and Top Secret info tucked into a sandwich: How a Navy veteran allegedly stole classified submarine docs

The secrets were placed between two slices of bread.

Marine Corps

Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, who criticized leaders over Afghanistan withdrawal, released from the brig

He had been sent to the brig on Sept. 27.

Army

The true story of how Army paratroopers traded dip for a Toyota gun truck used to secure the Kabul airport

Soldiers trading dip for a technical may be the most Army story ever.

Army

Meet the US Army’s 2021 soldier and noncommissioned officer of the year

“Anyone can be here. Absolutely anybody."

Army

Army fires new missile-hauling Stryker for the first time in Europe

Boom.

United States

The Pentagon’s hottest new catchphrase sounds a lot like its old one

No more 'great power competition.'

Opinion

It’s time to stop awarding the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal

The routine of getting the award has become so perfunctory that it's essentially meaningless. 

Entertainment

‘Pearl Harbor’ is actually a good movie and all you critics are just haters

Hating 'Pearl Harbor' is not a personality trait.

Mandatory Fun

This is what Air Force aircraft would look like if they were works of art

"I would buy a print of this!"

Entertainment

Someone hijacked a Navy warship’s Facebook account so they could livestream ‘Age of Empires’ [UPDATED]

In all fairness, it is a great game.

Air Force

This Air Force unit you’ve never heard of made the Afghan airlift possible

"Think of any airport in non-COVID Thanksgiving travel. Now beef it up 200 to 400% and sustain it for two weeks."

Marine Corps

Marines are testing a new scope that ‘locks on’ target

Nobody cares that you shot with iron sights. This is freaking awesome.

Mandatory Fun

This fake-looking Air Force photo is totally real and totally amazing

This picture looks fake but trust us, it's totally real.

Space Force

The Space Force knows their pants look terrible: ‘We are still working to get the fit right’

Fashion, the final frontier

Army

Inside the office of a one-star Army general that 100% of soldiers rated ‘hostile’

"[T]his woman constantly beat me down."