If you grew up watching 1980s action movies, you were sold a lie about the M60 machine gun. Rambo convinced an entire generation of future infantrymen that the M60 was the closest we’d get to a magic wand of destruction, and we couldn’t wait to get our grubby little hands on one.
They made it look like it could be fired one-handed, shirtless, while screaming and throwing your emotional baggage at the enemy; don’t forget the belt of ammo draped casually over an oiled-up bicep. You didn’t even need cover or concealment, just grip it and rip it, son.
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Space Force Tech Sgt. Garry Springle said he would not be alive were it not for a smartwatch that the service issued him for an ongoing fitness study it’s conducting.
Not long after starting the study, Springle noticed the smartwatch consistently told him he was falling short of the Space Force’s fitness standards. Specifically, the watch was saying he was not meeting his required intensity minutes — a measure of heartbeats during exercise.
In order to meet the intensity requirement, Springle needed to get his heart rate up to 70% of the maximum rate for his age.
Jackson Barracks, headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard, will be the home of a new Air National Guard unit tasked with providing cyber capabilities, the Air Force announced Wednesday.
The new squadron will be supported by converting manpower from the 122th Air Support Operations Squadron at Camp Beauregard in Louisiana — which is slated to be deactivated as part of budget divestments in ANG tactical air control part (TACP) missions. The cyber operations unit is expected to reach full operational capability in spring 2030, according to the service.
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For three straight years, Navy nose tackle Landon Robinson has been a “freak.”
The hulking, 6-foot, 287-pound senior on the U.S. Naval Academy’s football team was ranked No. 13 this season on The Athletic’s annual Freak List, a roll call of college football’s biggest, strongest players. That spot was a jump from 48th in 2024 for Robinson, and it’s not hard to see why: though short for a Division I lineman, the Ohio native is the strongest player on Navy’s team with powerlifts last summer of 465 pounds on bench, a 665-pound squat, and 350-pound power clean.
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College football used to be about the game. There, I said it. Young men lined up to play for Army or Navy (see Pete Dawkins or Roger Staubach) before NIL deals or the transfer portal. Bowl games/postseason games used to mean more, too.
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In 1941, Willamette College of Oregon and San Jose State embarked aboard the S.S. Lurline to play a pair of charity games in Hawaii. Scheduled for Dec. 13 and 16, the games were going to benefit the Honolulu Police Department.
Two Army drill sergeants at a Missouri base have been charged with sexually assaulting trainees and conspiring to cover it up, officials told Task & Purpose.
Staff Sgt. Michael Serrano, 34, and Sgt. 1st Class Brian Sullivan, 38, were drill sergeants assigned to Company A for the 3rd Chemical Brigade at Fort Leonard Wood, when the alleged crimes took place, according to Michelle McCaskill, a spokesperson for the Army Office of Special Trial Counsel, which is prosecuting the case.
Yes, this is happening.
Paradigm Shift Technologies and Perfect Bore Defence have formed a partnership to set up a barrel coating facility in the UK.