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“That event changed the trajectory of my entire Army career. As a New Yorker, I wanted to find the guys responsible.” – Chief Warrant Officer 2 Darren Holcomb

The Defense Department’s own Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a research institution dedicated to the analysis of security issues on that continent, drew attention to skyrocketing terrorism fatalities there in recent years. It also published a map of “Africa’s Active Militant Islamist Groups” that showed 22 organizations menacing the continent

The bullet lodged high in his upper thigh, likely severing a femoral artery, a location where a normal tourniquet would have little effect. By inflating one of the junctional tourniquet’s bladders over the wound, medics stemmed the blood loss, and he ultimately survived.

The first female ever to try out for the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment has flunked out, but will get the opportunity to try again later this year.

The gauntlet includes events in five categories: The HITT assessment, a 300-yard power shuttle, a tactical hill climb, a virtual marksmanship test and a tactical fitness challenge. But there’s a catch: Competitors didn’t know which of 150 possible events would be graded until the day of the event.

The Army is one of the few organizations that give you a true sampling of the types of people that live in America. It seems that shooting and blowing shit up while getting a free college education appeals to people of all races, classes, and creeds. The Army welcomes everyone from the lower-class youths who […]

On Sept. 1, Venezuela’s opposition has promised to hold a massive demonstration in the capital demanding a presidential recall in the midst of a deep political and economic crisis that has many going hungry and emotions on edge. But there’s one looming question: Will the military allow the protest? “We’re betting that it will be […]

To confront complex challenges associated with organized crime like drug abuse, money laundering and elite corruption.

The majority of that will come in special operations, with just $84 million planned for other projects.

CENTCOM established an intelligence “fusion center,” a specially equipped JIC facility staffed around-the-clock, to serve as a “focal point” for Daesh-related intelligence. Interviewees recalled only informal communications noting the center’s establishment, and some were also uncertain about the center’s organizational structure, responsibilities, and how it was determined which JIC analysts would participate.

Infantrymen across the Army deserve to be properly recognized, Flak said.

A barroom brawl is not war, because it’s not organized, and it has no political ends. Economic competition between states, however fierce, is not war, because it’s not bloody—it’s mass, it’s organized, and political—but it’s not violent.