How the US Army's Best Ranger competition uses days of grueling challenges to find the military's best 2-man team

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A US Army Ranger completes a rope crawl during the Best Ranger Competition at Fort Benning in Georgia in April 2022.

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The killing of Americans in a Mexican border city highlights a sinister trend that US policies are making worse

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Mexican soldiers on patrol before the transfer of the bodies of two Americans kidnapped in Matamoros on March 9.

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18 countries sent sharpshooters to a US military base in Germany to see who has the best sniper team in Europe

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Competitors zero their rifles during the 2022 European Best Sniper Competition on August 4.

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Mistakes by the US's top spies allowed China to turn a deadly mid-air collision into an intelligence coup

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The crew of a US Navy EP-3 detained in China board a flight to Guam on April 12, 2001.

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The loser of a rare submarine vs. submarine battle was found 80 years after being sunk

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An undated photo of British Royal Navy submarine HMS Torbay.

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Ukrainians are riding tanks captured from an elite Russian unit into battle in Bakhmut, but their new gear may not last long

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The Ukrainian army fires a captured Russian tank T-80 at the Russian position in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022.
Ukrainian troops fire a captured Russian T-80 tank at Russian positions in the Donetsk region on November 22.

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The US's B-29 bomber was more expensive than the nuclear bomb it dropped on Japan at the end of World War II

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A B-29 drops bombs on Formosa on October 18, 1944.

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Russia can't match the US military's hardware, but it has other ways to keep it from working properly

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Russian President Vladimir Putin during a videoconference with President Joe Biden in December 2021.

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The US Army is getting a new vehicle to replace the armored personnel carrier it has used since before the Vietnam War

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A US Army Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle after field testing on September 24, 2018.

US Army/Maj. Carson Petry

How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us'

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US soldiers exit an LCVP and head ashore at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

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