Top Gun: Maverick has taken audiences by storm as crowds of Americans piled into movie theaters this week to see the year’s best action movie. Tom Cruise’s follow-up to the 1986 action classic Top Gun features a fleet of iconic jets. Unless you’re a ...
Ray Liotta, the famous actor best known for his roles in crime dramas, died Thursday, May 26, in the Dominican Republic at the age of 67. He leaves behind a daughter and a fiancee. Liotta caught his big break in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 gangster ...
On Nov. 30, 1943, The New York Times reported one of America’s finest World War II submarine skippers, Lt. Cmdr. Dudley “Mush” Morton, was missing in action. The controversial “daredevil skipper” had engaged and sunk 19 enemy ships in just 10 months. ...
As Americans watched the fighting of World War I unfold overseas, a sensational story out of New Jersey temporarily ripped the war from the headlines. An enormous shark of unknown origin had finally been caught off the coast of New Jersey. The ...
Commonly referred to as the Forrest Gumps of the ODA, Special Forces weapons sergeants (18 Bravos) are often at the receiving end of jokes challenging their intelligence and mocking the comparative simplicity of their role on a Special Forces ...
The sequel to the 1986 smash-hit Top Gun has been decades in the making, but after years of delays, the air-combat movie is finally soaring into theaters this week behind a promotional blitzkrieg led by Tom Cruise. Every poster for the new ...
The seemingly endless rows of white marble sprawling across Arlington’s rolling green hills are perfectly uniform. Each row is measured so precisely that not a single plot is askew. Unlike the crosses and Stars of David that fill the American ...
The Space Force special operations community is reeling from allegations of misconduct Tuesday morning after reports surfaced of a senior cadre member maliciously wounding a special operations candidate. An anonymous Space Ranger candidate filed ...
The young prankster from Jaws — seen scaring Amity Island beachgoers with a fake great white dorsal fin — is all grown up, and he will soon be made a police chief on Martha’s Vineyard. Nearly 50 years after starring in the iconic hoax scene from ...
While Americans may be familiar with modern commando units, such as the Army Special Forces and Navy SEALs, most likely they don’t realize the term "commando" actually originated in South Africa during the Boer Wars. The Boer Wars — the First ...
The United States Air Force is slated to permit airmen an extra quarter inch of facial hair on either side of their mustache, sources indicate — quite literally a measurable victory in the long-standing battle between the military and facial hair. ...
Chris Pratt emerges from the surf, ready to deliver violent retribution in the new teaser for The Terminal List. The latest trailer for the upcoming Amazon Prime series, starring Pratt and Taylor Kitsch, just dropped, and it looks brutal. The two ...
On Tuesday, May 17, the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) Task Force — now calling itself the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, or AOIMSG — took questions from Congress during a hearing on Capitol Hill, speaking ...
A video recently posted to the popular news aggregation site Reddit shows a group of Marines laying waste to a large field of marijuana with flamethrowers. Join the Marine Corps — because smoking just one joint is for pussies. The video ...
Jon Bernthal delivers one of television's most accurate and humanizing performances of a corrupt cop in HBO’s new hit-miniseries We Own This City. The Hollywood A-lister, best known for his roles in The Punisher, Fury, and The Walking Dead, spent ...
Without any experience, budget, or evacuation plans, Brendan Whittington-Jones boarded a US Air Force C-130 in Kuwait City bound for Baghdad. It was May 12, 2003, just weeks after Iraq's capital city had fallen to American forces. Aside from a small ...
An old wives’ tale says that sprinkling coffee grounds around your homes and plants will help keep the ants away. Not only is that wrong, but it also might even attract some ants who are looking to build their own kind of coffee farms. While ...
Just about every generation in America has its own war, and its own war songs along with it. While most of the American public will never directly experience war, they can get some sense of what combat is like through art, photography, and ...
Nearly a decade after Phil Klay’s debut book Redeployment won the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the bestselling author and Iraq War veteran returns with his first venture into ...
KYIV, Ukraine — The Russian drone orbited over the Ukrainians’ position all day. Denys Antipov, a first lieutenant in Ukraine’s 95th Airborne Assault Brigade, recognized the silhouette of an Orlan-10, an unmanned aerial vehicle typically used for ...
M — played by Dame Judi Dench — tells Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond in their first scene together, “I think you’re a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War.” She maintains steely eye contact with 007 and tells him in her signature quiet, ...
The best fighter pilot training course in the world, made famous by the 1986 movie Top Gun, was started inside a trailer docked in a California parking lot. No, seriously. Although officially named the US Navy’s Strike Fighter Tactics ...
The U.S Army W.T.F! Moments Facebook page is a veritable gold mine of painfully relatable and overall ridiculous photos that Army brass probably wouldn't want the public to see. The site is dedicated to providing a platform for soldiers to have ...
“Strength through discipline! Strength through community! Strength through action! Strength through pride! Strength through insight!” students at Cubberley High School chanted at a rally led by history teacher Ron Jones in April 1967. It was the last ...
Fans are screaming for Top Gun: Maverick to hit theaters in a couple of weeks after years of delays. The long-awaited sequel stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and Jennifer Connelly, and will also see Val Kilmer return as Iceman, although it's unclear ...
Transitioning from the US military can be a tremendous endeavor for many, but some veterans have found purpose through entrepreneurship in their post-service careers. Some veterans have become so successful in their business ventures that they’ve ...
By traditional standards, Matt Smythe is as manly as they come. If he weren’t a dedicated father, he might live alone in a cabin in the woods or on a mountain. That doesn't arise out of a disdain for other people, but his insatiable desire to be ...
Airborne operations in World War II called for specialists capable of determining the weather in austere and dangerous environments. In 1942, Cornelius “Neil” Gray joined the US Army Air Forces. He was selected for an unconventional program that ...
On the sweltering afternoon of Aug. 20, 1940, Jacques Mornard walked up to the gates of an imposing walled compound in Coyoacan, a verdant neighborhood in Mexico City. Despite increased security from an attack three months earlier, the guards allowed ...
Bono and the Edge, frontmen for the Irish rock band U2, performed a surprise concert in Ukraine yesterday. The two rock stars traveled to Kyiv, where they put on a concert in the Khreshchatyk metro station to show solidarity with the embattled ...
