This RIMPAC Footage Looks CGI … Buuuut It’s Real
Waves as blue as a crooner’s eyes. The white pillow heavens hovering, hugging and in the distance — Mother Nature’s big bath and its insipid twin. It seems too rich, too […]
See This Old U.S. Navy Ship Get Blown Up, Sunk
There’s a few ways to make an underwater reef. The first way — the original way — is to be Mother Nature herself, conjure up some algae, and pile it […]
A Missile, a Ship, & U.S. Navy History Unfolding Before Our Eyes
How often do you get to witness United States military history? Once in a blue moon? Once in a … navy blue moon? The latter is appropriate, because for the […]
Was That an Earthquake in Florida? Nope! ‘Twas the Navy!
Live in Daytona Beach, Florida? Feel a few rumbles this past Saturday afternoon? If you did, guess what? It wasn’t the old man in the sky “gettin’ down”, or Mother Nature flipping […]
Here’s a Delta Force Soldier Telling Us to Calm Down at the Gun Range
“A recurring theme that I see on the range is trainingitis or theatrics, training through theatrics. An example of that is putting a shot on target and snatching the pistol […]
This Kid Built a Freaking Cannon in His Backyard
Remember that story we told a few months ago about the kids who — unbeknownst to them — took on Patton and the freaking United States Army in Louisiana with […]
This Is What Happens When You Fire a Gun Into a Frozen Pond
Not sure why this guy is dressed like a parcel, but he is, so that’s that. Couple his Tanooki Suit with the fact that he unloads firearms into small frozen […]
Is ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Accurate? This Video Tells You
One of the most indelible images of Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, which kicks off with an unforgettable recreation of the famous D-Day invasion, is the troops in […]
Here’s a Battle Tank Made Entirely Out of American Beer
There are, roughly, just over 13,000 active United States military battle tanks strewn across the globe. For the most part, they’re made of armor, and they’re specifically designed to take […]
This Here Is a Tasty Cheeseball Machine Gun (Seriously)
Hungry? You could take advantage of a great foodie discount, like this deal for the military through Omaha Steaks (by clicking and verifying through the Troop ID button) or … you can have […]
This Anti-Drone Gun Looks Like an Unholy Infernal Bazooka
Drones can be annoying. In the neighborhood, over cities, at parks — yeah, irritating. Sure, the footage they dispense can be eye-opening and utterly magnificent, but is it really worth the […]
Life Tips & Wisdom from an Air Force Gonzo Doctor
If Dr. Hunter S. Thompson could be described with one word, it would be a word he created himself — a word that somehow encapsulates the drug-induced and drunk first-person journalistic/fictional […]
Gobbledygook! Here’s the Best War Memo Ever Written
If necessity is the mother of invention, then what’s boiling wrath and mind-bending rage? The father? The following war memo from 1944, penned by Smaller War Plants Corporation’s own “Chairman and […]
Check Out This Size Comparison of U.S. Bullets and Battleships
In a military full of larger than life equipment and aircraft, it can be hard to really visualize how breathtakingly huge the American armed forces are. This goes triple for people who haven’t […]
This ISIS Fighter’s Helmet Cam Video Is Hysterical
There’s a famous line in one of the Godfather movies where Michael Corleone recalls a bit of the education his pops passed down to him. He says “there are many […]
SEE: U.S. Weapon Saves Kurds From Suicide Bomb Truck
This is raw footage of the fight in Syria you don’t see everyday. It shows a cabal of fighting Kurds suddenly faced with a terrifying obstacle — an armored truck, […]
See the Time the Soviets Rammed a U.S. Cruiser
The litany of recent incidents in the news of Russian military “unprofessionally” pestering — or better yet — BROWBEATING United States military equipment and personnel might seem like a brand new […]
This Truck Sticker Pretty Much Sums It All Up
Okay so there’s a helluva lot of stuff going on in the photograph below. Let’s leave the best — and the reason for this entire post — for last. Shall […]
A Drone … With a Chainsaw … Decapitating Snowmen … in Finland
It’s no secret that the Finns detest snowmen. They hate them with every fiber of their being — a being that may or may not be stuffed with mustikkapiirakka and rapu.** […]
See the Navy’s New Sub-Hunting Drone Comb Open Water
It might look like a skinny boat with aquatic training wheels, or a bad metal damselfly sculpture, or a chunk of the Delaware Memorial Bridge broken off, but it’s not. […]