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The stories that emerged from that battle are the kind that legends are built on. They're larger than life and in some cases seem unbelievable. But they're true.

"After a certain point in time, it will actually become destructive to them."

Their final stand and sacrifice all took place in a matter of seconds.

“Stroke 3 break right. Break right. SAM lock."

On December 7, 1941, the U.S. naval fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor suffered a devastating attack from the air and sea

According to recent Pentagon photos, the F/A-18E Super Hornet from VFA-87 that shot down a Syrian Sukhoi Su-22 fighter-bomber in the U.S. military's first air-to-air kill since 1999 clearly carries a fresh victory marking — a scalp for one of the squadron's "Golden Warriors"

23 years ago, the Taliban drove Pvt. Atiqullah Assadi and his family from their home in Afghanistan. Now, he's a United States Marine, and he intends to go back.

The U.S. Navy invited The Village People to shoot the music video for 'In The Navy' aboard the Knox-class frigate USS Reasoner. What happened next is the stuff of pop culture legend

We need a few good men and women with leadership experience — and what better leadership school than the U.S. military?

President Ronald Reagan designated August 14 National Navajo Code Talkers Day in honor of the American Indians who joined the Marine Corps in World War II and lent their language to the crypto effort against Japan

​Early in the morning of August 6, 1945, a U.S. Air Force B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off with a 9,700 top-secret bomb named Little Boy. Its pilot, Paul W. Tibbets Jr., led a crew of 12 men on a mission that would change the history of the world

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"They stayed two days and opened every drawer and took pictures. If Dick were still alive, he'd say 'what a bunch of excitement.'"

"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"

Reuters interviewed more than a dozen officials and soldiers and spoke with brain-injury specialists to assemble the most comprehensive account so far of the nature of the soldiers' injuries and how they sustained them.

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

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.

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

Pentagon officials on Wednesday released a list of military treatment facilities and clinics that will no longer provide care to military retirees and active-duty families as part of a shift in focus to supporting active-duty readiness

Conflicting theories about the sinking include an electrical failure and flooding in the engine room. The documents could lend more clarity, the lawsuit says.

After two weeks pent up at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the first group of coronavirus evacuees to arrive in San Diego finally got to leave Tuesday

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

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

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