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The National Guard is not releasing any information about the status of the three people aboard the helicopter.

The Pentagon's latest statement does not rule out the possibility that the Defense Department could initially announce a smaller deployment to the region and subsequently announce that more troops are headed downrange.

Are you in search of a fresh Christmas tree but for some reason consider axes to be girly and ineffective when it comes to chopping it down? If these extremely specific circumstances apply to you, then fear not: you can absolutely blast your holiday decor free from the chains of Mother Earth

"If there is a requirement to surge, we will be ready to surge."

Carl Chandler was on the fast track to leadership in the Army, but in 2003, while deployed in Iraq as an Airborne Rifle Team Leader, he passed up a pay raise so he could stay with his soldiers

I didn't think a movie about World War I would, or even could, remind me of Afghanistan. Somehow, "1917" did, and that's probably the highest praise I can give it.

'We are out of Schlitz with regard to power ... we don't have as much' extra for additional functions"

"We have sent very clear and blunt signals to the Iranian government about the potential consequences of aggression because all of this is intended to produce stability and deter potential attacks."

The scandal, researchers found, was merely a symptom of a much larger problem.

"It's the stories of the 'heroes' that commit heinous crimes — that brought me to create Military Murder."

Sig Sauer has launched a commercial version of the lightweight M18 pistol currently in use by the U.S. military

Working for Levy, "was harder than a deployment, because there was no job satisfaction," said one airman.

The Pentagon's secretive R9X Hellfire missile may be more akin to a flying anvil full of switchblades than a traditional munition, but that doesn't mean it's any less effective

Just in time for Christmas.

"What I held as the unfathomable moral bedrock of the U.S. military — condoning the worst actors on the battlefield — has now become an acceptable reality"

You didn't really need a fancy report to tell you that.