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The Army has developed an app to help soldiers survive active-shooter situations
A team of civilian employees from the Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, Alabama, have developed a phone app that will help soldiers and civilians survive an active-shooter response...
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Soldier charged with terrorism was allowed to stay in Army despite making...
The Army knew Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang had shown support for Islamic State years ago. It even took away his security clearance for a while.But he stayed in the service, deploying to Afghanistan in...
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Trump looks to nominate Raytheon executive as next Army secretary
President Donald Trump is considering a lobbyist for defense contractor Raytheon, Mark Esper, for the position of Secretary of the Army, a person familiar with the matter said.Before Esper joined US...
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'We are at war and people don't even know': Inside the divide between the...
A little more than a year after she married, Tiffany Smiley walked into a hospital room to tell her husband he was blind.A car bomb in Mosul, Iraq, had sent shrapnel into Army Maj. Scott Smiley's eyes...
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This long-forgotten unit was the predecessor to Delta Force
The US Army’s highly secretive counterterrorist unit, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta, is without a doubt among the best counterterrorism units in the world.While Delta is extremely...
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Soldiers who came out before Trump's transgender policy rollback fear for...
The US Army soldier took a deep breath before hitting the button that sent the email to more than 200 fellow troops."All considered, I am, and have been, traversing what is essentially a personal...
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The Army is working on a rifle sight that wirelessly connects to night-vision...
FORT BELVOIR, Va. -- In the next 18 months or so, the Army expects to field two new systems to dismounted Soldiers that will allow for more rapid acquisition of targets, even those hidden by darkness,...
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2 US soldiers injured in helicopter crash in Afghanistan
Two U.S. military personnel suffered minor injuries after their HH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on the morning of August 1, Operation Resolute Support said in a statement.The helo...
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Turkey reportedly just axed its army, air force, and navy commanders in one move
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) decided on Wednesday to replace the heads of the army, air force and navy, local media reported.The YAS, which meets every August, held a...
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The US Army just ordered soldiers to stop using this Chinese drone because of...
The U.S. Army has ordered its members to stop using drones made by Chinese manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd because of "cyber vulnerabilities" in the products.An Aug. 2 Army memo posted online and...
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On Monday, President Donald Trump tweeted out a series of attacks on Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal's record during the Vietnam War.Trump himself had five deferments from service in Vietnam,...
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Two US soldiers killed in ‘mishap’ while firing artillery at ISIS in Iraq
A Pentagon spokesman says the two U.S. soldiers killed Sunday in Iraq were casualties of a U.S. artillery "mishap."The spokesman, Army Col. Rob Manning, said an Army artillery unit was firing on an...
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A handful of US soldiers are now testing these futuristic new helmets
For the last two decades, the Army’s protective headgear has gone largely unchanged. But after four years of developing a new ballistics helmet, 111 combat engineers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are now...
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Army sergeant catches on fire while saving couple from car 'engulfed in flames'
Staff Sergeant Nicholas "Bruce" Davis, a cannon crew member and section chief assigned to C Battery, 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division Artillery, 101st Airborne...
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US military leader rebukes former service member believed to be part of a...
US military leaders have roundly rebuked the deadly violence that unfolded at the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, and a US Marine general specifically called out a...
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11 books the US Army's top officer recommends to help understand the world
Secretary James Mattis has been heralded as a "warrior monk" for his prodigious knowledge and voracious reading habits.But Mattis, a retired Marine general, is not the only US military officer who has...
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This is how it could go down if China and India went to war
A war between the world’s largest Democracy and the world’s largest Communist state may not seem likely to the casual observer. But not only is it possible, it’s happened before. Only things were very...
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29 photos of the US's war in Afghanistan — a fight James Mattis has said 'we...
At the end of 2014, after more than 13 years of combat operations, 9,800 US troops were to remain in Afghanistan.That number would be reduced by half at the end of 2015 and reduced again at the end of...
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Trump's ‘new’ Afghanistan policy looks like more of the same
Donald Trump surprised international audiences with his announcement that he plans to expand the US military intervention in Afghanistan, without setting an end date. This is a turnaround from Trump’s...
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The US has 1.3 million troops stationed around the world — here are the major...
The US military has over 1.3 million men and women on active duty, with more than 450,000 of them stationed overseas.Many of these stationed service members perform training exercises and other duties...
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