President Obama made bayonets sound like buggy whips at Monday’s presidential debate, but the fact is they’re still standard issue for Marines. The knives, which fit on the end of a rifle barrel and ...

In combat, that command sends a chill up every soldier’s spine. It means hand-to-hand combat is imminent. “Uh-oh,” thought Louis Giarrusso, then 21, of Providence. It was December 1944. He was ...

SOCHACZEW, Poland - It's been three days since Company D, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade began their road march from Estonia, southwest toward Italy after completing a ...

President Obama’s quip about “horses and bayonets” may have been the most memorable sound bite from the third presidential debate, but was it true? The comment came after Mitt Romney asserted that ...

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — Around 50 U.S. service members, veterans, and their families gathered atop a hill on this installation south of Seoul to remember a seasoned combat veteran who helped turn ...

The bayonet made its debut in European armies in the late 17th century as a kind of primitive “weapon of mass destruction”. The firearms of the time were inaccurate and beset by problems with jamming.

Although Michigan Sheriff Michael J. Bouchard runs one of the nation’s largest sheriff’s offices — with about 1,400 officers stationed a few miles northwest of Detroit — he spends a lot of time in ...

Soldiers assigned to 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, and 7th Infantry Division, assisted in the exercise by role playing subordinate units and serving as mentors to help ...