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"The truth is that I never killed anybody with an entrenching tool."

There’s a famous Marine Corps story from Vietnam, about a Marine's confirmed kill with a small shovel. Here's what really happened.

Today marks the 107th birthday of the oldest living U.S. Marine: Dorothy (Schmidt) Cole.

Today marks the 107th birthday of the oldest living U.S. Marine: Dorothy (Schmidt) Cole.

"I don’t think there is any such thing as a ‘tactical nuclear weapon,’" former Defense Secretary James Mattis told Congress in 2018.

"I don’t think there is any such thing as a ‘tactical nuclear weapon,’" former Defense Secretary James Mattis told Congress in 2018.

Uncle Wally’s service had been family lore. And the monument—erected somewhere in a small town in France—loomed large in my imagination. My dad didn’t know the name of the town. Perhaps Uncle Wally didn’t, either.

The Navy released 200 pages of email communications this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Task & Purpose in April

Officials said the move would ensure troops can "continue their Defeat-ISIS mission without interference."

"Honestly we need an entirely new wardroom from Captain down"

The State Department failed miserably in a now-deleted tweet that featured the Navy's Blue Angels instead of literally any other Air Force jet

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is facing criticism after he recounted a story about a military veteran who committed a violent crime after his wartime service

"We fought the righteous fight, and some of us will remain forever young."

The Air Force goes hard in the paint.

As memorable as that scene is, the real-life story is somehow better.

The incident is just the latest in a string of issues that has kept Fort Hood under the microscope over the last several months

“Understand that you’re speaking for the soldiers that you’re building this software for, you’re building this for them to use, you’re building a tool for them to save time."

The Active Denial System uses radio frequency waves "to create a brief intolerable heating sensation on the person's skin at tactically useful ranges," according to the Pentagon

The Army is formally moving ahead with the development and fielding of a powered exoskeleton to help soldiers move faster and carry more while reducing overall fatigue