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Mistakes happen, especially on the Internet, but a recent flub from the office of Florida congressman is especially heinous

The Army wanted a slice of the multi-million dollar Esports pie

Retired Master Sgt. Mark Allen had been unable to walk or speak since a sniper shot him in the head in July 2009.

"We have not abandoned the Kurds, let me be clear about that," Defense Secretary Esper said on Friday. "We have not abandoned them. No one greenlighted this operation by Turkey – just the opposite. We pushed back very hard at all levels telling the Turks not to commence this operation."

As of Sunday, President Trump had not ordered all US troops to withdraw from Syria.

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is warning that it's "absolutely a given" that ISIS will come back if the U.S. doesn't keep up pressure on the group, a week after President Trump announced the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from northern Syria.

We see ourselves as upholding a higher standard. We aren't just some overgrown banana republic. We're a "shining city on a hill."

Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg are bringing the third series in its Band of Brothers franchise to Apple TV+, which will highlight the American bomber crews who fought the air war over Nazi Germany during World War II, according to Deadline.

Golsteyn, a decorated Special Forces officer, admitted during a CIA polygraph test in 2011 that he had killed an unarmed Afghan during a 2010 deployment, after a tribal leader said the man was a bomb-maker who had killed two Marines.

U.S. troops came under artillery fire ​from the Turkish military that landed within "a few hundred meters" of their position in Kobani, Syria, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Friday.

Huan Nguyen became the first Vietnamese American promoted to the rank of rear admiral during a ceremony at the Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., Oct. 10.

It's not a stretch to say that the acts of heroism, courage, and sacrifice laid out in these citations are super human. It seems only natural they get the super hero treatment.

New research from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process indicates that although veteran job candidates are widely seen as possessing a "calm under pressure and having a get-it-done kind of attitude," they lack "creativity, interpersonal skills and emotional capacity"

This is what it sounds like when more than 156,000 enormous pairs of balls roll up on a French beach ready to kick some Nazi ass

Big yikes

A soldier stole a 155mm artillery round and concealed it among his possessions before admitting to the theft six years later according to the Army Crime Report for Fiscal Year 2018, which was obtained by Task & Purpose

The U.S. Army allowed hundreds of soldiers to rejoin the service after being separated for "adverse reasons," according to an internal document obtained by Task & Purpose.

The U.S. Naval Academy has a message for the burgeoning satanists in its ranks: you can study satan, but you sure as hell can't hail him

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