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It’s time for the military to rethink entrance examinations
Since 1968, the military has used the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, to assess all incoming recruits.
By Stew Latwin
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Patriot missile battery heading to Slovakia amid Ukraine invasion response
The Patriot system will replace Slovakia's S-300, which it will send to Ukraine.
200 air and missile defense soldiers set to deploy to Saudi Arabia
One Patriot battery and four Sentinel radar crews will head to Saudi Arabia, while three more Army units are on-call.
Navy officer accused of ‘nonconsensual sexual contact’ with sailor and soldier
The incidents allegedly occurred on March 17, 2018 in Virginia.
About 1,000 US troops will head to Mideast as tensions with Iran grow
Roughly 1,500 U.S. troops consisting of a Patriot missile battalion, intelligence aircraft, engineers and fighter pilots are heading to the Middle East as a “prudent defensive measure” against Iran.
Iranian media: Battery explosion at submarine plant kills three workers
The explosion took place at a shipbuilding factory about 23 miles west of the southern port of Bandar Abbas that overlooks the Strait of Hormuz.
That time a Navy jet shot itself down
In this season of the practical joke, let's talk about some very bad mistakes unique to the world's military services.
By Alan Green, Military History Quarterly Magazine
Step back in time at Fort Abercrombie
The Navy built a radio facility on Woody Island in 1911, and later established its base on what is now Coast Guard Base Kodiak in 1939 in response to the onset of World War II.
By Jack Barnwell, Kodiak Daily Mirror
The Russian military wants authority to shoot passenger jets out of the sky
Proposed new rules would allow the military to open fire on passenger jets that “refuse to obey commands to land.”
By Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider
This famous Navy warship sank on New Year’s Eve
"Our little vessel was lost, and we, in months gone by, had learned to love her, felt a strange pang go through us as we remembered that never more might we tread her deck, or gather in her little cabin at evening."
By Olav Thulesius, Civil War Times Magazine