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.
Paradigm Shift Technologies and Perfect Bore Defence have formed a partnership to set up a barrel coating facility in the UK.
NSPA awarded Rheinmetall UK a contract to deliver the Trailblazer Driver Vision for the upgrade of the UK’s M270 A2 MLRS platforms.
L3Harris Technologies has secured a contract worth up to $200m to supply GMLRS Insensitive Munition (IM) propulsion units.
For the last 20 years, the M4 Carbine has been the Honda Civic of the U.S. military. It was lightweight, easy to maneuver, and you could find parts or ammo literally anywhere on the planet. It was the ultimate weapon for a force designed with speed and volume of fire in mind. But that era just slammed into the brick wall of time.
The Army’s new replacement, the XM7 Next Generation Squad Weapon, is not a Civic. It is a main battle tank you have to carry in your hands. If you listen to the grumbling in the barracks, the reviews aren’t great.
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Rob Evans, creator of the Hots & Cots app, has built a new website that allows veterans to review the quality of care at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities.
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