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It's lighter, but still packs a punch.

He spent 21 years as a Green Beret.

The Tet Offensive began on January 30 as the North Vietnamese occupied the city of Hue. U.S. Marines spent nearly a month fighting a brutal urban battle to retake the city — which was 80% destroyed by the battle's end

An official of the Taliban militant group, which now reportedly controls nearly half of Afghanistan, says the militant group is not seeking to rule Afghanistan alone in any future government structure and wants to co-exist with current institutions

He was accused of choking his wife while she was holding a child

"I would certainly hesitate to use the word 'dramatic' improvement."

The egregiously expensive and notoriously unreliable F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are even more of a disappointment than you previously thought, according to a new Department of Defense assessment obtained by Bloomberg News

There may be a surplus of veterans charities out there, but we could always use a few more, right? We have some suggestions

The Marine Corps is looking for a few good amphibious combat vehicles ahead of the next big war.

The U.S. Army will always face challenges recruiting the soldiers it needs, but an uphill battle is no excuse not to strive to do better —or learn from other countries' modernization efforts

Some of the topics Marty covers, alongside Task & Purpose CEO Zach Iscol and former Army Capt. Meaghan Mobbs, are the controversy of Gillette's latest viral marketing campaign, the Black Israelites and the Lincoln Memorial protests.

"We are currently sourcing the units involved and there will be an increase of a few thousand troops. We will provide more clarity on the numbers when we have it."

Strap in for a wild ride: U.S. Special Operations Command could end up testing out a prototype of a military-grade jet pack as soon as this summer,

He allegedly tried to torch his urinalysis test, and now faces charges for attempting to set fire to bottles of pee.

Some people are legitimately outraged by the idea that young men shouldn't be giving each other beatdowns. A not insignificant group feels seriously threatened by being told to be better.

Is the Pentagon gearing up to send a contingent of U.S. service member to South American in response to the ongoing political crisis in Venezuela? Apparently, according to the world's dumbest OPSEC fail

A total of 68 active-duty sailors and 11 sailors in the Navy Reserve took their own lives in 2018.

Better late than never.

"Although it was a reckless, stupid act, he had no thought there was actually a bullet in the gun when he fired it."

As troops sit down to file their 2018 income tax returns, the Defense Department wants them to know that some significant changes in tax law could put more money in their pockets.