The Pic of the Day: Navy SEALs seize ships

U.S. Navy SEALS with SEAL Team 5 and Royal Thai Navy SEALs conduct visit, board, and search and seizure training during exercise Cobra Gold in Sattahip, Kingdom of Thailand, February 15, 2019. Cobra Gold 19 provides a venue for the United States and partner nations to advance interoperability; and increase partner capacity in planning and […]

The Pic of the Day: US Commandos commemorate D-Day

A U.S. Army paratrooper assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) lands in the drop zone near Mont-Saint-Michel, Avranches Commune, France, on May 18, 2019. This event comes at the invitation of the Mayor of Avranches in commemoration of World War II special operations that laid the groundwork for the successful Allied liberation of […]

The Pic of the Day: ‘Legends in Flight’ Expo

Members of the 1st Helicopter Squadron fly UH-1 Hueys over Washington, D.C. during opening ceremonies of the Joint Base Andrews “Legends in Flight” Air & Space Expo May 10, 2019. The weekend event in Maryland featured headliners the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, as well as an impressive lineup of […]

Catch-22 Comes Close But Doesn’t Quite Stick the Landing

George Clooney takes on Joseph Heller’s dark, satirical novel that he penned in 1961, starring in it, directing two of the series six episodes and producing it as well. Trying to reproduce Catch-22 is no easy feat although the insanity of war and the weird characters that war produces lend itself well to the insanity […]

The Pic of the Day: How actors train for a Navy SEAL television show

The cast and crew of the CBS television series “SEAL Team” prepare to film a scene for the series at Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton, California, on January 14, 2019. The series used MCB Camp Pendleton’s rugged terrain to display live action role-playing of a team of United States Navy SEALs with the assistance […]

The Pic of the Day: Never forgotten

Tech. Sgt. Pete Rivera, a recruiter for the United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron “Thunderbirds,” looks at his reflection at the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C., May 8, 2019. Rivera has been on the team since 2018.

The Pic of the Day: US pararescuemen showing off

U.S. Air Force pararescuemen assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, participate in a High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachute jump into the water from a C-130J Hercules assigned to the 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron near Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, May 11, 2019.

The Pic of the Day: Blue Angels dominate the sky

Two United States Navy Demonstration Squadron “Blue Angel” F/A-18 Hornets perform during a practice show for the Legends in Flight airshow at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, May 9, 2019. This was the first joint show between the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron and the Blue Angels in more than a decade.

The Pic of the Day: Special Forces operators assault island

A Green Beret assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) clears along the wall of a building after conducting an underwater infiltration of Okaloosa Island on April 2. Special Forces soldiers from the group attacked a mock enemy outpost on the island to rescue a hostage after infiltrating by water. Special Forces Operational Detachment […]

Re-saving ‘Private Ryan:’ Legendary war movie back in theaters

This year marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day. On the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, American, British, and Canadian forces stormed five beaches in Normandy, in northern France, in what was the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany’s domination of Europe. To commemorate the anniversary, 600 movie theaters around the country will […]