Joshua Skovlund

Mil Spec Type III 550 lbs. Paracord, better known as 550 cord, can strike any veteran's nostalgic heartstrings, especially if they had a habit of leaving their gear around.

On Thanksgiving 74 years ago, at the height of the Korean War, the sound of gunfire abruptly woke Marine Pvt. Hector Albert Cafferata Jr. He and his squad held Fox Hill during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir , and a regimental-sized Chinese People's Volunteer Army — a force of approximately 1,400 soldiers — sprung an ambush two hours past midnight.

Pfc. Dillon Easton died in his sleep on Nov. 17 at his home in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, five months after being assigned to the 34th Infantry Division, better known as the Red Bulls. Due to a backlog of the Army's latest dress uniforms, the Army Green Service Uniform, Easton wasn't going to have one for his funeral on Nov. 22.

Close to 15 million Americans served in the military during World War II. But the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for combat bravery, was awarded just 473 times.

Just a month before the end of World War I, Army Sgt. William Adair was in Montfaucon, France when his unit came under savage artillery attack. Assigned to Company C, 315th Field Signal Battalion, 90th Division, Adair was responsible for the unit's fragile communication lines, simple spools of telephone line run from their position.

The 2024 Army-Navy football game is Saturday, matching the teams of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy. Played annually since 1890, the game is a pivotal tradition for the future military officers who attend both schools and a major draw in the big-business world of college sports.

A former Navy SEAL who carried the V40 mini-grenades in Vietnam said they were good for rooms and small buildings and not much else.

Bats use echolocation to find food and places to rest. Add in an incendiary device glued to their chest, and you now have a firestorm that can wreak havoc on any enemy. Or so Pennsylvania dental surgeon Dr. Lytle S. Adams thought during World War II.

The 1970 movie “Tora! Tora! Tora!,” which chronicles the attack on Pearl Harbor, billed itself as featuring some of the most realistic combat footage in Hollywood history — a claim more true than even the makers originally intended.

If you are shopping for the spy who has everything, have you considered asking Santa to bring a silent, covert crossbow used by the daring agents of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II? The crossbows were issued out to daring spies of the OSS — the U.S.'s wartime intelligence service that eventually morphed into the CIA — as silent, easily concealable weapons for operatives behind enemy lines.