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We salute the soldier who sacrificed his leg to save his battle buddies during a tank accident
Army Spc. Ezra Maes was on a deployment to Poland when an accident almost took his life.
Mandatory Fun obtained an exclusive recording off a hot mic on Area 51. Two soldiers discuss why 300,000 Facebook warriors want to storm Area 51.
National Guard identifies soldier killed in M1 Abrams rollover at NTC
FORT IRWIN — The Nevada National Guard on Friday released the names of those involved in Tuesday's tank rollover accident at the National Training Center.
Staff Sgt. David W. Gallagher, 51, of Las Vegas, died after the Abrams M1A1 tank in which he and three other soldiers were traveling rolled over.
Marines are pulling even more tanks out of caves in Norway for war games on Russia's doorstep
For the second year in a row, U.S. Marines joined the U.S. Army and partner forces in Finland last month for the Arrow military exercise.
During the two-week Arrow 19 exercise, the Marines again pulled tanks and other equipment from the cave complex in Norway that has been used to store gear since the Cold War.
The exercise allows Marines "to evaluate our ability to offload personnel and equipment, generate combat power across the Atlantic, and then redeploy assets through a known logistically complicated area of operation," 1st Lt. Robert Locker, a Marine communications officer, said in a release.
The Army is getting its first full brigade of souped-up Abrams tanks sooner than expected
After a year and a half since the Army took delivery on the first of its souped-up new version of the M1 Abrams main battle tank, the Pentagon's Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio is ramping up to deliver the service's first full brigade of upgraded warhorses to bring the pain downrange.
We salute the soldiers who named their tank 'Chuck Norris' after the actor hung out with them
Chuck Norris contains multitudes.
He's an Oklahoman and an Air Force vet, an actor and martial artist. The intensity of his badassery formed the basis of one of the earliest and most ubiquitous internet memes. He's a fictional member of Delta Force and a Texas Ranger, his beard a source of such virile endurance and strength that it makes Samson's biblical mane look like a bouquet of hobo pubes.
Now, Norris will live forever as the ultimate instrument of righteousness: an M1 Abrams tank.
