This article was originally published June 13, 2021, on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. U.S. President Joe Biden has said that NATO is "critically important" for American interests and that the alliance's mutual defense clause is "a sacred ...
President Woodrow Wilson established June 14 as national Flag Day in 1916, but it wasn’t made “official” by Congress until 1949. The American flag now flies across the globe and the stars on Mars, the moon, and US military bases and ships on all ...
It started with a bet. Sgt. Gilbert Bates was a Civil War veteran of the 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery Regiment. Bates had returned to Wisconsin as a farmer when he told some neighbors he thought he could march across the just-defeated rebel ...
III Marine Expeditionary Force announced Wednesday that it had resumed waterborne operations for Assault Amphibious Vehicles (AAVs) for the first time following a deadly accident in July 2020 that claimed the lives of eight Marines and one ...
Two soldiers deployed to the Middle East with the Louisiana National Guard’s 156th Infantry Regiment died last week in separate non-combat-related incidents. “Spc. Robinson’s death happened in Kuwait, and 1st Sgt. Hart’s incident happened in ...
Crickets fade into the low drone of a bagpipe as the men of the 1st Air Cavalry Division nervously peer through the tall grass of Vietnam’s central highlands. The order comes to fix bayonets, and as the soldiers on screen prepare for deadly ...
On Oct. 18, 2006, Lt. Col. Justin Constantine was on a routine civil affairs mission in Iraq’s Anbar province when a sniper’s bullet hit him behind his left ear and exploded through his mouth, inflicting devastating damage. The Marines around him ...
According to a report from the US Department of Justice, police maintaining strong community engagement is critical to maintaining public safety and effective policing. “It is important for the police to be visible in their communities and know ...
You can’t save them all. Coast Guard rescue swimmer Ryan Pierce learned that lesson the day the call came to evacuate a man who’d suffered a heart attack aboard a cruise ship off Florida’s Atlantic coast. Pierce and the other ...
Author Nathan Gorenstein reverently respects the subject of his second book, The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World. Browning's pioneering designs and development of ...
Before there was Game of Thrones or Star Wars, there was Dune. War and the power struggles of those who wage it have been central plot devices for millennia. War is as primal as sex and love. Now, take a world with a cosmic power struggle and add ...
This article was originally published June 11, 2021, on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The U.S. Defense Department announced on June 11 a new military assistance package for Ukraine. The Pentagon said the $150 million package would “enhance ...
The Chicago Police Department implemented a new interim foot pursuit policy this week with a final version due Sept. 1. “Because foot pursuits are one of the most dangerous actions that police officers can engage in, we cannot afford to wait any ...
The Battle of Belleau Wood raged through most of June 1918. From its opening shots on June 1 to Marines clearing the last German positions on June 26, the battle marked the largest fight in Marine Corps history to that point and the baptism by fire ...
The Army is looking for a few good fungi. In a not-too-distant-future, troops could be loaded up with a fungus they can use in field environments to grow their own chemicals, fuel, food, and even building materials. Researchers are looking at ...
After a dump truck crossed into oncoming traffic on a busy Tennessee highway directly in front of an Army recruiting office, recruiters inside immediately sprinted to the scene and began assisting the injured, prying drivers from overturned vehicles ...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, telling lawmakers that as American troops leave Afghanistan, the Department of Defense plans to station personnel in neighboring countries. Although ...
I recently received my first bag of Black Rifle Coffee Company’s Fit Fuel Blend coffee. The bag that arrived at my doorstep contained whole beans, and my initial plan was to grind up 30 grams each morning to add to my pre-workout ritual. Somewhere ...
It all happens in 6 seconds. Two police officers jump from their car as a man is walking — slowly, almost casually — toward them in an alley. The cops yells at him to stop. In a flash almost too quick to see, a gun appears. Everything is ...
The same year The Lord of the Rings trilogy reached its epic conclusion, one of the greatest sea stories ever put to film sailed into theaters. Eighteen years after its release, Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is finally ...
Kids famously love Silly String battles, shooting each other with strings of synthetic foam. But parents — equally famously — do not, because the fun strings turn to crusty webs, sticking to hair, clothes, and just about everything else. Now, the ...
There’s a new sport coming to the 2024 Olympics, and Brianna Pritchard is working hard to make it to Paris for the first Olympic break dancing — or just breaking — competition. But all that hard work currently takes place at the al-Asad Air Base in ...
Dozens of Alaska Air National Guardsmen with the 176th Civil Engineer Squadron and other 176th Wing units helped build houses for Cherokee Nation veterans in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, as part of the Department of Defense’s Innovative Readiness Training ...
On Sept. 15, 1966, 5th Special Forces Group established the Military Assistance Command Vietnam, or MACV, Recondo School at Nha Trang. The school served as an extension of Project Leaping Lena and Project Delta. Project Delta’s Detachment B-52 became ...
It’s no secret that brewing a great cup of coffee often comes down to achieving that ideal grind. Coffee enthusiasts worldwide spend a considerable amount of time and money investing in a high-quality grinder to add to their home brewing ...
In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to reach the 29,029-foot summit of Mount Everest. The renowned mountain climber also helped launch the outdoor equipment company REI into the multibillion-dollar business it is today. But before ...
Read the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. The U.S. Air Force wants to test whether it's possible to move hundreds of tons of military equipment to forward operating locations and bases around the world using ...
Bob Lemke remembers the morning he realized Vietnam was lost. “The radar looked a little fuzzy only because there was so much activity on the water,” Lemke, then a lieutenant on the frigate USS Kirk, told Jan K. Herman in The Lucky Few. Gathered ...
For two years, criminals all over the world thought they were communicating on an encrypted chat and communications app called ANOM. Used by drug and crime syndicates in over 100 countries, the service allowed for apparently secure coordination for ...
Following a budget request in which the Marine Corps is asking for more than 100 guided missiles to deploy with ground units, the service continues to refine the concept of using missile-based artillery to target ships. For example, the 24th Marine ...
