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D-Day veteran James McCue died a hero. About 500 strangers made sure of it

Trump announced on Friday that he was declaring a national emergency, allowing him to tap into military funding to help pay for barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border

While SOCOM promised a veritable Iron Man-style tactical armor by 2018, officials told Task & Purpose that much-hyped exoskeleton will likely never get off the launch pad

An Army investigator involved in the case of a Green Beret's murder case has been suspended from his duties and charged with stolen valor.

"For example, we have a $1 billion medical center being built to replace the Landstuhl hospital in Germany. We've spent about $300 million. In this last bill we spent another $300 million so you've got the prospect of leaving the hospital half-built."

The judge in the murder trial for Navy SEAL Chief Edward Gallagher has postponed his court-martial for three months at the request of his defense attorneys, a Navy official said Wednesday.

Ah yes, yet another glorious opportunity to remind the world that even the might American warfighter is no match for household chores.

The commander of Naval Special Warfare said Wednesday that he recently commissioned a 90-day review of recruiting, selection, training, and leadership development in his command amid allegations of drug use, murder, and other ethical lapses within the SEAL community.

"Assigning this level of blame to the commanding officer does not let the chain of command and 'Big Navy' off the hook."

Bill Cosby is apparently having no trouble adjusting to his life in prison thanks to his brief service in the U.S. Navy

The Army may have festooned its Stryker fighting vehicles with a slew of new armaments as part of the Pentagon's relentless pursuit of lethality, but the upgunned infantry carriers are apparently hobbled by a major deficiency that makes them especially vulnerable in a fight against Russia or China

This is just too cool.

"Making sure the truth of what he personally witnessed comes out at trial is the right thing to do, and he will not be intimidated from doing that, despite the leaks that have happened in this case."

Too often, people who would be innovators either give up too early or never put the work in to see their ideas through. Then they get disillusioned and blame the system for their own failures.

Robert O'Neill, the Navy SEAL Team 6 operator who fired the shots that killed Osama Bin Laden during the May 2011 Abbottabad, Pakistan raid, recently signed a movie deal with Universal Studios to base a film on his best-selling biography.

"With regards to 2020; yes, I am looking at a potential campaign."

Navy Adm. Philip Davidson thinks recent ship collisions that left more than a dozen sailors dead were tragedies, but as he told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, we should also remember that 280 other ships didn't collide and that's gotta be worth something.

Hulu is remaking Joseph Heller's beloved satirical World War II novel as a miniseries, and it looks amazing.

This is how the military's youngest living Medal of Honor recipient does a Throwback Thursday post.