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Tom Hanks Is Teaming Up With Vet Filmmaker Dale Dye To Make A Veteran-Powered WWII Drama

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Tom Hanks has signed on to both act in and executive-produce No Better Place To Die, an upcoming World War II drama about the airborne Normandy landings on D-Day, written and directed by Marine vet and seasoned technical adviser Dale Dye.

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8 Of The Worst Places To Sleep

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Benjamin Franklin nailed it when he said, "Fatigue is the best pillow." True story, Benny. There's nothing like pushing your body so far past exhaustion that you'd willingly, even longingly, take a nap on a concrete slab.

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And no one knows that better than military service members and we have the pictures to prove it.

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Soldier Charged In Epic Humvee Free-Fall Fiasco Heads To Court-Martial

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An Army sergeant accused of failing to properly secure three Humvees that plunged to their spectacular destruction during a parachute jump in Germany last year is headed to court-martial, Stars and Stripes reports.

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Officer Under Fire: 'I'm Not A Toxic Leader, I'm An Ass Who Expects You To Do Your Job'

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Where, precisely, is the fine line between an exacting, razor-sharp leader of soldiers and a complete tool of an officer? The answer to that question may determine the fate of Col. Christopher Lambesis, "a mountain of human muscle” nicknamed “Big Nasty,” who’s accused by his Arizona National Guard superiors of being, well, too much of a hardass.

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Soldier Charged In Epic Humvee Free-Fall Captured In Viral Video

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Army Photo by Pfc. Malik Gibson

Last year, the internet was treated to a video of three Humvees plunging to their doom from a fleet of C-130s during an Army parachute jump in Germany. Despite the footage’s popularity, the only things we knew about the incident at the time were that it involved the 173rd Airborne Brigade and heads were definitely going to roll.

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He Grew Up In Baghdad. Now He’s A Paratrooper With The 82nd Airborne

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U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Anthony Hewitt

Editor’s note: This post has been adapted from an original story by Army Sgt. Anthony Hewitt, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. You can read that story here.

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