Climb aboard the USS New Jersey, the fastest, longest, and most decorated US battleship ever built

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The USS New Jersey battleship.
The USS New Jersey battleship.

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Inside a top-secret ICBM training simulator where Air Force crews practiced for doomsday scenarios during the Cold War

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Museum mannequins inside a model of a launch control center.
Museum mannequins inside the Minuteman II missile procedures trainer.

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This soldier built a side hustle on TikTok and Instagram and says it's now paying better than the Army

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Johnny Vargas
Sgt. 1st Class Johnny Vargas is among a rising class of military influencers, and he has built a booming social media and brand business from videos on his phone.

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The country at the heart of NATO couldn't jam and keep track of mystery drones flying over a key military base

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Flags of NATO members fly at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Belgium said on Sunday that it failed to jam drones over one of its most vital military bases and lost track of one drone that multiple vehicles were deployed to pursue.

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I was rejected from my dream job at Anduril and told I came across as 'aloof.' It taught me not to hide my nerves.

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An Anduril recruiter told Ibrahim Shah he sounded "aloof and indifferent to the role."

Ibrahim Shah

I'm a Marine who has traveled the world. It's one of the most challenging parts of the job, but also the most rewarding.

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Aboard the USS Essex Marines and sailors progress to board a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter

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The US Navy is deploying its largest aircraft carrier to Latin America. Here are all the ships it's sent to the region.

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The US announced the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, to the Caribbean on Friday.

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New radar and missile tech have 'flattened the earth,' making even low-flying jets easy targets, Royal Air Force officer warns

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a grey fighter jet leaning to one side against a grey sky
Jets like Lockheed Martin's F-35 have advanced sensors, the kind that are making it harder for adversaries to go undetected.

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Trump says a 'friend' donated $130 million to pay the US military during the shutdown

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Donald Trump said a friend of his made a $130 million donation to the Pentagon but did not say who it was.

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The US is sending a strike group led by the Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier to support Trump's new drug war

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US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is rerouting the world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Mediterranean to Latin America, seen here transiting the Strait of Gibraltar, on Oct. 1, 2025.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is rerouting the world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Mediterranean to Latin America, seen here transiting the Strait of Gibraltar, on Oct.
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