Is it a good or bad sign when a political ad "provokes cries of outrage from the opposition"?
William Bradley | Posted 05.01.2012
The daring raid that took down Osama bin Laden was a triumph of American arms, satisfying retribution for al Qaeda's attacks on New York and Washington. But it points up the many mistakes we've made and continue to make in the wake of 9/11.
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.23.2012
In an effort to pay tribute to a fallen soldier, Jeff Beurline placed a cold Guinness on a bar in Newtown, Conn., along with a sign that read, "Reserv...
Brian Palmer | Posted 05.19.2012
I count wounded marines among my friends. Perhaps this is why the scene hit me so hard. But my personal history aside, this sequence is by far the movie's most nuanced and moving. It works unlike anything else in AOV aside from the bang-bang.
Posted 03.02.2012
Since an Afghanistan helicopter crash claimed the lives of 30 military members in August, Braydon Nichols, 10, has been fighting to make sure that no ...
Mark V. Vlasic | Posted 03.01.2012
We cannot fight piracy with our U.S. fleet alone. Fortunately, on this issue, the world is on our side, and one of the most powerful weapons available is within our reach.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 04.30.2012
Young American boys (including myself) have been running around with toy/imaginary weapons pretending to be soldiers for millenia, and have been watching TV shows and movies about the military for decades.
Ward Carroll | Posted 04.25.2012
The overall message of AOV is that the military doesn't chew innocents up and spit them out; it allows patriots to become their best selves. You wanna be a real life ninja? Join the Navy. Critics say, "Shallow;" fans say, "Real... finally."
S.J. Main | Posted 04.24.2012
The Bandito Brothers' co-directing team Mike "Mouse" McCoy and Scott Waugh "go big" with action this Friday when their patriotic film 'Act of Valor' opens wide in theaters.
AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 04.22.2012
WASHINGTON — Navy SEALs never expected the film "Act of Valor," starring real, active-duty Navy SEALs, to be this big. Five years ago, commande...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 02.21.2012
A crack team of highly skilled warriors, outfitted with the most advanced weapons of the world’s most powerful military force, storms an enemy compo...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 04.09.2012
WASHINGTON — For the past decade women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Thursd...
AP | ABDI GULED | Posted 03.27.2012
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Pirates moved an American hostage at least three times in 24 hours and threatened Thursday to kill him after U.S. Navy SEAL...
Posted 01.01.2012
It was the picture that grabbed America's heart this summer. A Labrador retriever lying under the coffin of his master, Jon Tumilson, a Navy SEAL kil...
The Huffington Post | Emily Heinz & Jessica Prois | Posted 12.08.2011
When it comes to 2011's top stories of crises, the call for action doesn't end just because the year is coming to a close. HuffPost Impact's news stor...
Posted 01.12.2012
Even as we thank our troops for their selfless bravery overseas, it's hard to imagine what those acts of bravery actually entail. So, as we continue t...
Posted 01.11.2012
The Harris family may have lost their son, Josh, to a combat mission in Afghanistan in 2008. But a discovery left behind by the former member of the e...
Posted 12.27.2011
A Louisiana man has used a corn field to write a very large thank you note to Seal Team 6, the elite unit that stormed Osama Bin Laden's compound in P...
Posted 12.13.2011
What's better than celebs done up in camouflage? Real SEALS in a movie! "Act of Valor" is a fictional story, which stars actual Navy SEALS, doing w...
Posted 12.04.2011
After Kimberly Vaughn's Navy SEAL husband was killed in Afghanistan, she kept his memory close by wearing his wedding band. Kimberly lost that ring on...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 11.01.2011
It's a tale of two wars: in Iraq, August became the first month to pass without a single American military casualty, while in Afghanistan, Americans e...
Mark Morford | Posted 10.24.2011
So deeply mesmerized was I by Nicholas Schmidle's chillingly detailed, wildly intense New Yorker piece describing the Navy SEALs' momentous takedown of Osama bin Laden on that fateful night in Abbottabad back in May that I almost missed it.
Huffington Post | Eleanor Goldberg & Jessica Prois | Posted 10.11.2011
They were expectant dads, astronaut hopefuls and former valedictorians. The helicopter crash that killed 25 U.S. Special Operations members and fiv...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 10.10.2011
WASHINGTON -- A White House photographer was allowed to take and widely distribute a photo from the ceremony Tuesday for the return of the remains of ...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 10.10.2011
WASHINGTON (Associated Press)-- International forces killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for shooting down a U.S. helicopter and killing 38 U.S....
Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.03.2012