How Vets Recover After Losing Their Limbs In The Iraq And Afghanistan Wars
The Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) includes the Center for the Intrepid, the San Antonio Military Medical Center, the largest inpatient medical facility in the Department of Defense, and several...
View ArticleA Woman In Ohio Allegedly Stole $7,500 From Her Son While He Was Serving In...
Police have arrested a woman in Ohio for allegedly stealing $7,500 from her son between the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011 while he was serving with the army in Afghanistan and Iraq. The...
View ArticleMeet The Soldier-Turned-I-Banker Spending His Entire Vacation Riding A...
Brian Kinsella, an energy sector specialist at BNP Paribas in New York, is doing something truly remarkable for his two-week mandatory time away this year. At the end of September, he's embarking on...
View ArticleAfter Wasting $5 Billion Dollars, The Army Is Eyeing These New Camouflage...
Earlier this summer we wrote: "The U.S. Marine Corps has long been known for doing more with less; smaller, more agile, and quick to react, it actually employed that ability when hunting for new...
View ArticleThe Army Sprayed St. Louis With Toxic Aerosol During A Just Revealed 1950s Test
Army's secret chemical testing in St. Louis neighborhoods during Cold War raising new concerns Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of...
View ArticleAmerica's Top Military Officer Opposes The Potential Demotion Of This...
We previously reported the detailed accusations against four-star Gen. William "Kip Ward, who was the subject of a 17-month investigation that found Ward to have spent hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleThe Swiss Army Is Actively Preparing For European Union Chaos
The Swiss army has begun drilling for both possible outbreak of internal civil unrest and an influx of refugees should a European Union member collapse, according to reports at EU Observer. Here's...
View ArticleThe Army Is Shopping For An Embraer Jet To Destroy
Earlier this month, the Discovery Channel flew a 727 loaded with cameras and sensors into the air and crashed it on purpose, to see how passengers could raise their chances of surviving a plane crash....
View ArticleThe Army Needs To Brace For Change As The Pentagon Heads To The Pacific
With the war in Afghanistan winding down, the U.S. Army’s senior leadership has started taking deliberate steps to ensure the service’s viability in future conflicts, particularly those in the Pacific...
View ArticleThese Army And Air Force Programs Are Most At Risk If The Military Takes...
The Army’s ground combat systems portfolio sits in a better position than their sister services if sequestration strikes and the military is forced to renegotiate contracts because of significant cuts...
View ArticlePearl Harbor Vet Tells Us How He Survived One Of The Worst Attacks In US History
It's easy to imagine that Daniel Fruchter tells stories today with the same energy he did when he was a kid, fresh in the Army, and stationed at Hawaii in 1941, just months prior to Japan's attack.As a...
View Article65 Beautiful Photos Of The US Military In 2012
This was a year to remember for the U.S. Military.After years of combat, some 23,000 troops serving in Afghanistan were pulled out in 2012, with plans to withdraw the rest by 2014.The U.S. Military...
View ArticleThe Army Wants A Massive New Complex For Its Fleet Of Drones
So the Army is taking bids on parts of its new 'Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Complex' — slated to cost between $20 and 25 million.Mark Thompson of Time's Battleland blog jokes that this can't possibly fit...
View ArticleA Bombed-Out Tank Almost Became My Good Friend's Burning Coffin
Antonio and I cruise the desert of our childhood like time stopped a decade ago, with the windows rolled down. I would have been in my last year of high-school and when you are young the blinders are...
View ArticleSoldier To Get Medal Of Honor For Fighting Off Hundreds Of Taliban While Injured
There were 53 US troops at Combat Outpost Keating, Afghanistan on the morning of Oct. 3, 2009. While they had been attacked many times before, on that morning at 6 AM everything went to hell.Skip to...
View ArticleThis Could Literally Be The Worst Reason For Joining The US Military Ever
The reason Americans enlist in the military is long and varied, but the motivation offered by this new recruit to his drill sergeant may be a first. The handwritten note was posted to Reddit a few...
View ArticleHave You Been In The Military? We Want To Tell YOUR Story
What are those little nuggets of info that you wished you could have known before you went in — the ones your recruiter forget to mention?What advice would you give your younger self, if you could go...
View ArticleVeteran Awarded Medal Of Honor For Repelling Hundreds Of Enemy Fighters
Former Army Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha was awarded the Medal of Honor today, becoming the fourth living recipient of the nation's highest military award for valor in Iraq or Afghanistan.Romesha was...
View ArticleChina 'Holds General's Son For Gang Rape'
China has detained the 17-year-old son of a general on suspicion of involvement in a gang rape, reports said Friday, the latest allegation against the privileged children of officials to spark public...
View ArticleCobra Snake Blood Is On The Menu For US Troops Training In The Thai Jungle
Ninety miles south of the bustling streets of Bangkok, U.S. troops trained with their counterparts in the Thai military this February, learning the ropes of jungle survival with surprising — and often...
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