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Gear
How The Army Is Using Augmented Reality To Bolster Troop Readiness
Triple amputee Army veteran Joey Bozik recently won his first competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu match.
Health & Fitness
Watch This Triple-Amputee Iraq Vet Win His First Competitive Jiu-Jitsu Match
Georgia Army National Guard Soldiers conduct a sunrise run during annual training at Fort Stewart, Ga., Jan. 11, 2017.
News
Army Expands Chances For Soldiers To Take 3-Year Breaks From Service
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News
Fort Drum Soldier Accused Of Killing His Wife And A State Trooper
Lance Cpl. Rick Mercer, a rifleman with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, emerges from the tree line during the Advanced Infantry Course aboard Kahuku Training Area, September 20, 2016.
Gear
The Navy Developed A Field Guide For Marines To Boost Their Senses Downrange
Sailors assigned to Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion VI wait to use the portable toilet while training at the Udari Range in Kuwait.
Humor
11 Objects That Only Veterans Will Look At And Think ‘Sure, That’s A Toilet’
An Afghan National Army noncomissioned officer instructs his soldier to move during a clearance training drill at the Regional Military Training Center in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, March 8, 2017.
News
DoD Spent $94 Million On The Wrong Type Of Camouflage For Afghan Troops
Members of the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team walk to the next objective during a dismounted patrol to the Department of Public Works facility and a water distribution point in Kandahar province Jan. 28, 2012.
Gear
The Army’s New Glasses Can Switch From Light To Dark Tint In Under A Second
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Community
Stand And Deliver: That ‘One Leg Monster’ On War, Pain, And Powerlifting
A combat wounded Army veteran and an amputee powerlifter, KC Mitchell knows pain better than most. It’s what keeps him going.
A U.S. Army soldier low crawls while negotiating an obstacle course during the first week of Basic Training in Fort Benning, Georgia.
Joining the Military
This Is What Privates Go Through During Army Basic Training
An Army drill sergeant explains the grueling and comprehensive training Army infantry receive in basic training.
U.S. Army Capt. Jason Beams, Training Division officer at the Army Mountain Warfare School in Jericho, Vt., observes Soldiers climbing Smugglers' Notch during their final phase of the Basic Military Mountaineering course in Jeffersonville, Vt., Feb. 19, 2015.
Gear
The Evolution Of The Combat Boot In The US Military
U.S. military combat boots have come a long way.
Logs atop a small bunker provide protection for a U.S. infantryman, a member of the 25th division “Wolfhounds,” as he fires a machine gun at Viet Cong positions near Cu Chi, some 25 miles northwest of Saigon in Vietnam on Feb. 27, 1966. The Americans were expanding the perimeter around their base camp through a heavily-tunneled and entrenched area. (AP Photo)
Community
The Story Of The Man Who Fought In His Friend’s Place In Vietnam
In 1966, Paul Mahar switched identities with his childhood friend, and quickly found himself being shipped off to Vietnam.
In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo, historian Andrew Carroll poses for a photograph, in Washington, with one of his war letters that has a bullet hole in it. The letters, recently given to Chapman University, include one written home by a U.S. soldier on Adolf Hitler's personal stationery. The collection stretches from letters written home by fighters in the French and Indian War to modern-day wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and those by people who are now quite famous, including Sen. John McCain, Gary Trudeau and Kurt Vonnegut. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Community
Read This Beautiful Revolutionary War Letter
A letter from a Revolutionary War militiaman gives us insight into our past and reaffirms what we know about America's troops at war.
U.S. Army soldiers with the 5th Cavalry Regiment remain alert as they clear alleyways in Sadr City, Iraq, on Aug. 18, 2004.
Unsung Heroes
UNSUNG HEROES: The Sgt 1st Class Who Led The Way In An Unarmored Humvee In The Battle Of Sadr City
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News
This Slain Soldier Has Emerged As The Hero Of Fort Hood