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Analysis

This is the US military’s next sniper rifle of choice

The U.S. military appears to have fallen in love with a relatively new sniper system: The Multi-Role Adaptive Design (MRAD) bolt-action sniper rifle from Barrett Firearms

Opinion

Traumatic brain injury is often called an ‘invisible’ wound. It’s anything but

Military Life

Empowered through work: How a military spouse found strength in her job with The Home Depot

Stephanie Rasmussen is a strong woman. She never knew what her capabilities really were until she married into the Army and started working at The Home Depot.

Korea

US Forces Korea on high alert for coronavirus after dependent tests positive

U.S. military forces in South Korea aren’t taking any chances after the widow of a retired soldier tested positive for the coronavirus, the first US Forces Korea-related individual to do so according to military officials there

Analysis

This is your brain on war

Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s an ability to control it, or replace it with something else.

Marine Corps

He raced through incoming fire so he could put himself between an enemy’s rifle and a wounded Marine

On this day 51 years ago Pfc. Oscar P. Austin gave his life to save a fellow Marine when he not only leaped toward an enemy grenade, absorbing the blast, but then stood between the injured man and a North Vietnamese Army soldier, taking a bullet to save another Marine.

Navy

Navy Football player David Forney dies at 22 after being found unresponsive in his room

"The Navy Football Brotherhood is not a team, we are a family."

Entertainment

The New York Times just turned the floor over to a terrorist and Taliban leader

The New York Times failed to inform its readers that Sirajuddin Haqqani is a wanted terrorist with a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.

Navy

The Navy just installed a laser on a destroyer to counter incoming drones

A Navy destroyer recently got a major power-up when a laser was installed during a recent dry dock period, the service announced in on Thursday

Army

Army leaders are confident they’ll hit a recruiting goal that doesn’t actually exist yet

Though the Army has yet to actually set an official recruiting goal for this year, leaders are confident they're going to bring in more soldiers than last year.

Air Force

The Air Force has started testing its UH-1 Huey replacement

The MH-139A Grey Wolf completed its first test flight with a combined Boeing and Air Force crew on Feb. 11, the service announced in a statement, allowing the Air Force "its first in-flight look at the capabilities of the aircraft."

Afghanistan

Taliban: No peace agreement if US troops stay in Afghanistan

"My fellow Afghans will soon celebrate this historic agreement," Sirajuddin Haqqani wrote in the New York Times. "Once it is entirely fulfilled, Afghans will see the departure of all foreign troops"

Mandatory Fun

We salute the Army crew that named their tank ‘Baby Yoda’

Baby Yoda is the diminutive king of the Internet, so it was only a matter of time before some enterprising tank crew offered up their tank to him as tribute

Middle East

Video shows US military vehicle running a Russian military truck off the road in Syria

A video has emerged showing a U.S. military vehicle running a Russian armored truck off the road in Syria after it tried to pass an American convoy.

Air Force

Alaska airman punished for peeing in office coffee maker

Five days AWOL, Five letters of reprimand, one smelly coffee maker

Opinion

For years he sold the military’s version of the Iraq War. Now he’s on a mission to convey ‘the chaos and absurdity of that experience’

​With his new memoir, "Attention Servicemember" Army veteran and former conflict photographer Ben Brody shows war the way he saw it.

Army

100 soldiers will leave the Army for the Space Force sooner than you think

"I think it would be a great opportunity for these young men and women," Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said.

Russia

Top Pentagon policy official who certified Ukraine aid fired

John Rood is perhaps best known for sending a letter to Congress in May 2019 in which he certified that Ukraine had made enough progress fighting corruption to allow the Defense Department to provide the Ukrainian government with a $250 million military assistance package

Opinion

A call to action at the VA on sexual harassment and assault

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie allegedly sought to intentionally discredit a female veteran who reported a sexual assault at a VA medical center. This will not stand

Middle East

The Pentagon lost track of $715 million in weapons and gear funneled to anti-ISIS allies in Syria

The U.S. government failed to effectively account for nearly $715.8 million in weapons and equipment allocated to Syrian partners as part of the multinational counter-ISIS fight, according to a new report from the Defense Department inspector general