After all, it’s later than you think. Our military now relies not only on a volunteer (if, at times, “stop-lossed”) Army, but increasingly on tens of thousands of hired guns, consultants, interrogators, interpreters, and other paramilitary camp followers. Private, for-profit“security c...
Were you born in the year that the army made it mandatory for taller recruits or were you born during the Vietnam War? Find out here what happened in U.S. Army history the year you were born.
The Swedish-designed 40mm (which needed extensive conversion for inch-pattern mass production) was a godsend both to the U.S. Army who used it for ground-based AAA and to the Navy, who used it to fill the gap between 20mm Oerlikon, the fiasco that was the1.1-inch “Chicago Piano,”and...