A junior officer in the Army’s Air Defense Artillery branch is apparently having some serious issues with the enlisted and NCOs in his unit- and he went to Reddit to solve it. The ADA second lieutenant, who only went by…
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Sailor is known as being “superhuman” for feat aboard an aircraft carrier
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Update: Pentagon issues statement on rocket strike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani
Update: From the Department of Defense, “At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.”
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There is a long-standing adage in combat arms branches that says “you haven’t had a full career until you’ve gotten an Article 15.” Well, this Vietnam War veteran had his share non-judicial punishments (authorized by Article 15 of UCMJ), racked…
Naked soldier forced into tub filled with horse feces and dead rats
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Mexican fights for US to earn citizenship, earns MOH for Bazooka savagery, succumbs to PTSD
Sometimes, recognition comes long after a good deed is done- but such deeds are rarely done for the sake of recognition. In 1944, a young American Army Private by the name of Pedro Cano took on an overwhelming number of…