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Coffee or Die Magazine visited a nuclear missile launch site and rode on a B-52 bomber — key parts of America’s 24/7 nuclear deterrent.
When a midair collision crippled their KC-130J, call sign Raider Five Zero, two Marine pilots fought to bring it safely to earth.
Elite sniper teams shoot it out at the home of special operations
Syrians are trying to build a democracy in the wake of the Islamic State group, but will it work?
Grassroots veteran organization Six Feet Above hosted a three-day retreat with group discussions and self-reflection via ollies and nosegrinds
As recruiting dries up across the military, a Marine in the San Fernando Valley is on the hunt
What you don’t know about the borderlands and how federal agents hunt smugglers.
Riding along with the Special Operations Combat Medic Course in Camden and Trenton, New Jersey.
MANBIJ, Syria — Soldiers with the Syrian Democratic Forces spilled out of a house on the edge of an ...
How the Air Force’s secret operators face their worst moments
Willie’s Distillery, founded by a former Army Ranger and Green Beret, has turned into a local treasure and nationally distributed brand in Ennis, Montana.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he night was cold, the jet noise was loud, and an emotional charge was in the ai...
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]weat shone on Cody Morris’ back, plastered strands of hair to his neck, and soak...
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s Reach 824 flew through Afghan mountains toward Kabul, the crew of the hulking ...
FORT BRAGG, N.C.
[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ank wore a pink bandana, matching Sarah Cole’s dress. As a camera snapped, William Cole leaned over to pet Hank.
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n July 21, 2008, Lance Cpl. Brady Gustafson was manning an M240 machine gun in t...
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]tanding on the ramp of a C-130 in the dead of night, at 5,000 feet, in thick clo...
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]lying nonstop from the United States, a swarm of C-130 Hercules and C-141 Starli...
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] base jumper climbs onto a handrail and looks around. Almost 500 feet below is t...
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]hahab donned a shirt he hadn’t worn in weeks, said goodbye to his family, and left the cramped apartment in Mazar-i-Sharif on Sept. 2, 2021.
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n a building just a couple hundred feet from the fence line of Joint Base Lewis-...
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]usic drowned out the sound of Jason Howell’s fingertip exploding. It was the Sat...
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is pain when it comes to riding a motorcycle. On a bike, exposed to the elements, the little things are painful.
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]illiam Clark’s breath made clouds of fog in the December air as he and his teamm...
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]irectly in the center of Kinetic Ink Tattoo Co. is a wall decorated with small photographs of proud smiling faces.
Josh Smith held a long blade in his hand. Maybe 18 inches long, it was still black and ragged from the forge, but he had a point he wanted to make.
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]cott Elwell, an Army officer from the 10th Mountain Division, commanded a batter...
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] man sits at the window-facing counter of a dive bar in Bremerton, Washington, p...
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]rett Archibald has spent the last 28 years haunted by the belief that he let his fellow soldiers down. He didn’t.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Ukrainian soldier warns me to speak no louder than a whisper. The enemy lines...
[dropcap]U[/dropcap]nder an overcast sky on an urban warfare range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pen...
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n a World War II bomber hangar that once housed th...
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ept. 11, 2001, was a beautiful Tuesday morning.
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]elissa Hemphill took the pregnancy test that changed her life in a Walmart bathr...
[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ia Coryell’s eyes fluttered open on a spring morning in 2014. As she stirred and moved to get out of bed, she was struck by panic at the realization her legs would not work.
A bed in white linens sits in the center of a wood floor, lit by soft daylight streaming through large windows. Outside is a still desert landscape pockmarked with scrub brush and cactus.
The sun has barely crested the snowcapped peaks of “his canyon” when Dan Schilling pulls into the ba...
YAVORIV, Ukraine — At this former Soviet military base located some 750 miles to the west of Ukraine...
You can’t save them all. Coast Guard rescue swimmer Ryan Pierce learned that lesson the day the call...
Watching from the roof of a makeshift command post in the Syrian town of Hajin, the Texan surveyed t...
Standing in the garden of her home on the outskirts of this front-line Ukrainian town, Nastya Troits...
It was around dawn on Feb. 19, 2012, when the phone rang in an apartment in Oceanside, California, rousting retired Marine Maj.
Steve Houghton’s rugged face shone orange in the firelight as he pulled in a deep breath of the frig...
Alicia Sims was at her neighbor’s house to get some Tylenol when she heard a knock at the front door. At first she thought it was one of her five children.
As a member of the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment, Marty Skovlund Jr. completed five combat deployments.
