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Blue Angels fly missing man formation in honor of Pensacola shooting victims
On Dec. 19, the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels flew a missing man formation in honor of the three sailors killed during a mass shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida earlier this month.
The Pentagon has declared war on…*checks notes*… Tik Tok
The Dec. 16 cyber awareness message advises DoD employees that uninstalling Tik Tok, "Will not prevent already potentially compromised information from propagating, but it could keep additional information from being collected."
Bah humbug: Air Force unit in Turkey barred from drinking booze
Some airmen in Turkey are staring down a very dry Christmas this year
30% of the Pentagon’s top leadership positions will be vacant in 2020
With the most recent departures, a total of 18 of the 59 presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed positions on the Defense Department staff will be vacant.
The Air Force’s new UH-1 Huey replacement has a name like something out of a Tom Clancy novel
The Air Force's replacement for the iconic UH-1N Huey helicopter that defined the U.S. military presence in Vietnam is finally here, and it officially has a name clearly primed to strike fear into the heart of America's adversaries
Inside SOCOM’s effort to build a ‘hyper-enabled operator’ who can outsmart the enemy at every turn
Rather than focusing on physical advantages like body armor or load-bearing exoskeletons, the so-called 'hyper enabled operator' of the future will be cognitively enhanced, able to "think better and think faster"
The US and Russia’s top generals are totally excited to meet each other
It's hard to tell which general doesn't want to be there the most
Watch the actors of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ nearly puke in their helmets as they pull 7 to 8 Gs
Thanks to a new behind-the-scenes trailer for the highly anticipated Top Gun sequel, we get to watch a bunch of actors ride in the back seat of an F/A-18 Super Hornet and try desperately not to lose their lunch
You can now score your very own Army surplus M17 pistol for a limited time
Sig Sauer is offering a limited number of surplus M17 pistols originally fielded by the Army, the company announced on Wednesday
The USS George Washington just won the sh*t out of Christmas
The United States Navy is recalling some its most seasoned leaders in time for the Holiday season to train up its green pilots, and no, we're not talking about Maverick.
Thousands of deployed troops are going to see the new ‘Star Wars’ before everyone else
Starting on Dec. 18, two days before its theatrical release, troops deployed to Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere, will have a chance to see the highly anticipated final installment in the Star Wars franchise that began a long time ago, in May, 1977.
Chicken soup and bedsheet camouflage: Battle of the Bulge veteran shares his story of historic fight
"It's great to be here ... I'm very glad to be not digging foxholes."
Congress plans to ban sale of tobacco products to anyone under 21, and yes, that includes the military
The smoke pit might be getting a lot less crowded.
The Marine Corps’s ATV is getting some racing-inspired upgrades
After two years of getting knocked around by grunts in the field, the Marine Corps is applying a raft of upgrades to its lightweight all-terrain vehicles to improve safety and performance, including reinforced floorboards and run-flat tires
Army unit remembers the Battle of the Bulge with a photo of a Nazi whose troops killed American prisoners
"This is in no way intended to glorify the German forces, but to fully portray the odds stacked up against the Americans by December 19th"
‘I gave 100 percent’ — The first female enlisted Guard soldiers have graduated from Army Ranger School
"It is a big deal to be the first enlisted females in the National Guard graduating Ranger School ... It's groundbreaking"
PSA: Your commander can’t inspect your phone to make sure you downloaded an app
There seems to be some confusion
This Air Force master sergeant claimed his unit ignored sexual assault for years. He nearly lost his career because of it
"The only way to change it is to stand up and say something."