The weird engineering that links old ships of the line and the SR-71 Blackbird
One is the fastest jet ever produced, capable of outrunning anti-air missiles while capturing reconnaissance in some of the most hostile airspace on Earth.
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Air Force offers up to $50,000 annual bonuses to keep aviators in the service
The Air Force is offering active duty pilots and other aviators up to $50,000 per year to stay in the service as part of this fiscal year’s Aviation Bonus program.
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A boom operator on an Air Force tanker earned two DFCs for combat flights
A boom operator on a KC-135 tanker earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses on recent combat missions, the Air Force confirmed this week, a rare double-award of the military’s top medal for flight.
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It’s time to revisit ‘World of Warships’ and its slew of new updates for 2026
“World of Warships” has been on gamers’ radar for more than a decade now, and the updates just keep getting better. This year has been no exception.
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Ukraine is using a World War I ‘creeping barrage’ tactic to turn the tide of the war
The first casualty of war is always the plan—something the Russian Army relearned the hard way when it invaded Ukraine in 2022. Kyiv was supposed to fall in a matter of days.
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US troops downed ‘2 million’ energy drinks during Iran war, top general says
U.S. troops carried on one of the Global War on Terror’s most enduring battlefield traditions by downing millions of energy drinks during the Iran war.
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This Navy aviator escaped his captors during the Vietnam War and lived to tell about it
Dieter Dengler was so poor while growing up in Germany that he and his brothers picked through garbage for scraps. Desperate to escape his impoverished circumstances, Dengler was willing to go...
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A Transient Life and Hard Goodbyes: The Realities of My Lonely Military Childhood
Photos courtesy of Herbert Mintz. Illustration by Kim Vo " /> When my military family received orders to transfer to another duty station, my dad would organize our packing effort, chart a course,...
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Overrun and alone, this Medal of Honor recipient gave his life so his men could escape
Born in Newgulf, near Corpus Christi, Texas, on Nov. 6, 1924, Michael Castaneda Pena chose his calling as a man of action early in life.
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