Updated Aug 12, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT The Marine Corps Tuition Assistance program pays for up to 100% of college courses Marines take while off duty. Marine Corps Tuition Assistance (TA) pays up to 100% of costs for taking college courses while on active duty. TA is available to active-duty and…

The AK-47 is perhaps the most widespread firearm in the world. Carried by American enemies and allies alike since 1947, it is the standard infantry weapon for 106 countries. An estimated 100 million AK-47s of a number of variations exist around the world. It’s a popular weapon among firearms enthusiasts,…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: There are three hundred billion strikes of lightning in the atmosphere of planet Earth each year, equaling one hundred strikes of lightning per second. And I’ve been long fascinated by the display of power of natural systems, giant waves, raging rivers, violent storms, but there is one…

Female sailors shopping for new Service Khakis can now get something that has long been missing from the women’s version of the uniform: usable back pockets. The Navy Exchange Service Command announced Aug. 10 that newly redesigned women’s Service Khaki slacks are now available with two back welt pockets and…

For millions of Americans, the Battle of Mogadishu looks like Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. The first Green Berets sent into Afghanistan after 9/11 ride into battle with the faces of Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon. The raid that killed Osama bin Laden has been reconstructed repeatedly on film and…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Lasers and high-powered microwaves will need equal standing to traditional weapons when it comes to the Army’s approach to missile defense, the service’s space and missile-defense chief said. But as battlefield tech is developed and integrated, proper training will be key to keeping soldiers safe. “Integrating systems like lasers or…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—The sprawling Golden Dome missile-defense program is in peril because the White House decided to seek the vast majority of its 2027 funding via a controversial budget maneuver, the program’s leader said Tuesday.Gen. Michael Guetlein didn’t explicitly call out the administration’s decision to propose using reconciliation to fund about…

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