The Army has issued some 1.2 million of its Advanced Combat Helmets to troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. One of them stopped an AK-47 round and likely saved the life of an Iowa National Guard member. “It was able to stop …
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Outstanding Questions on the Afghan Massacre Case
Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, charged with murdering 16 Afghan civilians in a nighttime raid last year, is back into the news. Last week, he declined to enter a plea in a case where he could face the death penalty. The judge …
Winning Roe v. Wade: Q&A with Sarah Weddington
Forty years ago, the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, making abortion legal in all 50 states. Sarah Weddington, an attorney from Texas, was the lawyer who argued for legalized abortion before the high court. She was 26 years …
Rare Photos of Martin Luther King at Home
Intimate photographs of the civil rights leader and his family brought to you by the photo editors of TIME.
Dollars to Doughnuts
Not sure how to react to the news that the Defense Logistics Agency’s subsistence shop is in the market for doughnuts – lots of doughnuts – for the Navy. Never thought a chocolate-frosted, cream-filled confection could …
Here’s Looking at You, Taliban
Airman Lee Borytsky scans the perimeter around his guard tower on Bagram Airfield, Jan. 10.
5,500
— The number of U.S. troops helping launch President Obama’s second term Monday. His second act actually began Sunday – the Constitution specifies the President be sworn in on Jan. 20 – but the government slid the public ceremony to Monday to avoid competing with the NFL (just joking…it marked the seventh time in U.S. history that the oath-taking took place privately because Jan. 20 was a Sunday).
Why Can’t the U.S. Military Grow Better Leaders?
Military personnel policy is equal parts art and science. If it were all science, the Pentagon and its military services would have figured out long ago how to get the most out of each man and woman in uniform, give them …
Primed and Ready: Huge Pentagon Bunker-Buster Gets Green Light For Possible Iran Mission
After fretting for months that a “critical part” of the world’s biggest bunker-busting bomb was flawed, the Pentagon declared last week that the mammoth blaster is at last fixed and ready for use – against Iran, or any other …
Soldier Boy, You’re Gonna Carry That Wait
The VA keeps insisting it is getting its disability-claims backlog under control. Not according to a Government Accountability Office report released Friday.
Takin’ It From the Streets: Snow Removal Through the Years
Oh, the weather outside is frightful. No, seriously: for a good portion of the United States, it’s awful, freezing, slushy, gross. Thankfully, some intrepid souls have always made it their business to get out there the moment the …
“Son of MX” Basing Schemes on List of Future Air Force ICBM Options
The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center is seeking industry guidance on replacing the nation’s current fleet of 450 Minuteman III land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles sprinkled across Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming …
“Let's talk about China. We're…trying to bring -- and I think doing a fairly good job -- of bringing China in a responsible part into a -- into a world power in here. But as we do that, I think it's important to recognize, for any history majors out there, have we ever been successful in that -- in the past? Anybody? I'll take your silence as no, we've never been successful in the past.”
— Admiral William "Bill" Gortney, head of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, in remarks to a Navy audience Feb. 16.