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Halloween is most importantly a day for playing make-believe — the only day adults can escape their 9-to-5 jobs and pretend to be something they're not.

An F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed during a training flight near Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico on Tuesday, Air Force officials announced

Japanese police on the island of Okinawa arrested four sailors assigned to Naval Special Warfare Command over the weekend in Onna village.

Hazing represents the opposite [of discipline]... it is the product of a lack of self-control and laziness.

"At no one point did I ever sit there and say, 'This is it, it's over.'"

He's served for two decades as an Army infantry officer.

Baskin-Robbins always finds out

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday upheld the sentence for Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who earlier this year was found not guilty of allegedly killing an ISIS detainee in Iraq, allowing him to retire at a reduced rank of First Class Petty Officer (E6) rather than being automatically reduced to an E1 in accordance with Navy regulations

For more than 50 years, the Defense Department has used 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate the operational functions of the United States' nuclear arsenal — until now

A source described as a "security advisor" to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reportedly stole a pair of the terror mastermind's drawers about three months ago in order to prove he was being truthful to U.S. intelligence, according to NBC News.

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​If you missed out on seeing ​They Shall Not Grow Old​ in theaters last year, you'll finally have a chance to correct that horrible, awful, just terribly bad mistake that you made.

Such a good dog!

The U.S. military operation that successfully targeted elusive ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at a compound in Syria on Saturday night was named for Kayla Mueller, an American humanitarian aid worker who died in 2015 while held hostage by the terror group, National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien revealed on Sunday.

Is it just me or does this statement from the White House rebuking retired Marine Gen. John Kelly sound like a piece of North Korean propaganda?

The White House on Sunday released a photo showing President Donald Trump and senior administration officials observing the U.S. special operations forces raid that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in northwestern Syria

U.S. special operations forces conducted a raid targeting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, on Saturday night, according to multiple media reports

After years of uncertainty, the Air Force has finally decided to add two new light attack aircraft to its inventory

In past wars, it was possible to mark the U.S. military's positions with flags on paper maps. But we live in the age of Twitter, and since the commander in chief seems to be visited by the Good Idea Fairy every 15 minutes, there is no way to have an updated map of where U.S. forces are.