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Entertainment

These stick figure comics will change how you see the Coast Guard

“People in the Coast Guard feel like they didn’t serve, and I don’t want people to not seek treatment because of that.”

Navy

Watch the Navy fry a drone with a new shipboard laser weapon for the first time

Pew pew pew

Entertainment

‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’ based its newest in-game kit on a Medal of Honor recipient

It's based on the same kit he wore while deployed to Afghanistan

Air Force

Watch an Oklahoma airmen get arrested after leading police on a 180-mph motorcycle chase

Everyone feels the need for speed. Not everyone acts on it

Guns

The American pistol that’s served the US military in battle for more than 100 years

For more than a hundred years, one weapon has traveled with American troops into almost every crisis, hot spot, and war the United States has participated in

Mandatory Fun

6 things you should definitely not say to a veteran on Memorial Day

Don't be That Guy

Entertainment

The trailer just dropped for ‘The Outpost’ — a new movie about one of the bloodiest battles of the Afghan War

The trailer for The Outpost, an upcoming military thriller about the Battle of Kamdesh, has finally arrived.

Marine Corps

Marine vet arrested on weapons charges following FBI SWAT team raid

He's being held on $1 million bail.

Missiles

The Pentagon is no longer interested in using flying lasers to stop incoming missiles

BUT WHY NOT?!

Navy

NAS Corpus Christi shooter is dead, FBI says

The FBI is investigating the shooting as a terrorist attack.

Army

Fort Hood soldier found dead from gunshot wound inside burning vehicle

Our thoughts are with Pfc. Rosecrans' loved ones

Mandatory Fun

We salute ‘The Dude’ for being ‘the coolest military working dog ever’

The Dude abides

Army

DoD identifies soldier killed in non-combat incident in Afghanistan

RIP

Marine Corps

Marines are finally about to receive their first new pistol in 35 years

Sun's out, guns out

Navy

One security forces member injured in shooting at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi

The shooter has been neutralized.

Afghanistan

2019 was the ‘deadliest year on record’ for insider attacks in Afghanistan

A new inspector general report marks a grim milestone.

Military Life

This MilSpouse is taking service to the next level

Sometimes the smallest acts of kindness can have long-term effects. You never know what doors will open when you help out fellow military families.

Army

Exclusive: Here’s the Army’s plan to ‘reopen’ amid the COVID-19 pandemic

The service's conditions-based approach helps lay out a framework for how installations can get back to normal.

Benefits

Thousands of National Guardsmen activated for COVID-19 will be one day short of qualifying for federal benefits

The federal government and National Guard are friends with no benefits.

Entertainment

A supercut of X-Wings flying into the ‘danger zone’ is the Star Wars tribute we didn’t know we needed

Hyperdrive to the danger zone!