Marine Corps' New Rifle Optic Is in Demand as Service Plans Upgrades to Infantry Battalions The additional optics are being given to infantry battalions and are part of the Corps' long-term modernization goals, a plan...
Marines Get More Chances at Upping Their Shooting Scores -- But There's a Catch Beginning Oct. 1, Marines who score as marksman and sharpshooter will be given two more attempts within the same year to...
Car Company Had a Big Hand in Making the M16 Rifle When you think of General Motors, you think of autos, but the carmaker played a big part in manufacturing the most widely...
The Army Forced to Change the Name of Its New Rifle The service's upcoming M5 from Sig Sauer will now be called the M7 after it was discovered Colt Industries also makes a...
How Well Do the Army's New Guns Perform? That's Classified, But Soldiers Will Carry More Weight, Less Ammo When soldiers get the new guns, they will carry less ammunition, given the 6.8mm is much heavier than the 5.56mm rounds the...
Stolen Army Assault Rifles Keep Showing Up in California Authorities in California’s agricultural heartland weren’t looking for a military assault rifle when they went to investigate...
US Judge Overturns California’s Ban on Assault Weapons Like the Swiss Army knife, the AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.
Thinking About Weapons Safety You must obey numerous safety rules any time you are around military weapons. Treat all weapons as if they are loaded.
Army Investigating After National Guard Loses Rifle During Virginia Training Event Special agents with Army Criminal Investigation Command are investigating an incident in which the National Guard lost a...
Marine Corps Rifle Qualification Is Getting Its First Major Overhaul in More Than 100 Years Beginning Oct. 1, all active-duty Marines and sailors assigned to Fleet Marine Force will qualify with the demanding new ARQ.
Naval Academy Staff Removed Display on Female Jewish Graduates for Hegseth Visit The U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that officials there removed items commemorating female Jewish graduates from a historic...
'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France...
My Black Roommate Opened My Eyes to an Air Force I Didn’t Know Existed I realized I had been sheltered from much of the world's ugliness and was more than a little naive. I thought the problems I...
4 US Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania Swamp When Their Vehicle Sank Are Identified The recovery operation for the bodies and the M88 was an intricate and arduous weeklong process, enlisting the expertise of...
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his...
![Staff sergeant fires M4 during weapons training](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2021-04/shooter.jpg?itok=zjWTDSqJ "U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Kovacs, squad leader assigned to 529th Military Police Company "Honor Guard,” fires an M4 during the Law Enforcement Weapons Training and Qualification (LEWTQ) at the Wackernheim Regional Range Complex, Germany, Feb. 26, 2021. (Michele Wiencek/U.S. Army)")
