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Perez was also the first Black female officer in US military history to die in combat after she was killed in action while leading a convoy in Iraq in 2006.

This week on Weapons and Warfare, host Ryan Robertson sits down with retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jessica Ruttenber, a former KC-135 pilot. They discuss her fight against efforts to remove crucial ...

Key Points – The Nazi German MG 42, introduced in 1942, was a fearsome 7.92x57mm Mauser general-purpose machine gun renowned for its devastatingly high rate of fire (1,200-1,800 rpm) and ...

Updated at 11:21 a.m. ET on February 15, 2023. Commentators on the Ukraine war who think that American support for Ukraine is pointless or dangerous commonly reach for references to military history.

The military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history. Yet it still ...

Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War.

Michael O’Hanlon is right to ask us to learn “The Lessons of Military History” (Review, Jan. 28). But his request to teach military history “in its own right,” with a focus on strategies ...

More than 20 female veterans gathered outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to express their concerns with how women in the armed forces are treated and their frustrations with efforts to erase ...