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Candidates at the Navy officer candidate school in formation, looking off toward their drill instructor

How Navy officers are trained at the grueling 13-week Officer Candidate School

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The US Army's Stryker armored combat vehicle.

What it takes to be on a $10 million Army Stryker crew

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A sentinel guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetary.

What it takes to be a sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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How 8,000 new Army officers are trained at Fort Knox

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106-year-old Navy veteran William McClintick reveals how he survived a Japanese kamikaze attack in World War II.

How my aircraft carrier survived a WWII kamikaze attack

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How 60,000 military name tapes are made every month in a Fort Knox factory

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A US Army drone pilot participates in a combat training exercise in Germany.

How the US military is training a drone army 400 miles from Ukraine

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Flight School student in the cockpit of a T-3 fighter jet wearing a helmet while flying above clouds

What new Air Force pilots go through in flight school

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US Marine reveals untold boot camp stories

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A split-screen image of Jake Gabbard in the studio on the left, and Jake outside at Army Mountain Warfare School on the right, with the text "$4,000 of Army gear."

How I survived 14 days in the grueling Army Mountain School

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Army mountain soldier training

We spent 14 days on a mountain with the Army soldiers preparing for winter war

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A United States Marine Corps drill instructor addresses a recruit at Camp Pendleton during boot camp.

How Marine recruits survive boot camp in San Diego

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A soldier in a climbing gym presenting ski boots and an M4 carbine.

Army mountain soldier breaks down every piece of gear he takes on a mission

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A cook in a submarine kitchen checking on platters of hot rolls.

How Navy submarine cooks feed 150 sailors at sea

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Ralph Dahilig in camo face paint next to the words "War Bag."

Meet War Bag — the 5-foot-4 Marine who beat the odds at boot camp

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A culinary specialist in training mixes a tub of mac and cheese.

How Navy cooks are trained to feed 5,000 sailors on aircraft carriers

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A Norwich cadre member yelling as he takes the cadre oath.

Inside day zero at Norwich University — America's oldest private military college

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A drill sergeant pushes against a line of soldiers holding shields during a riot control drill.

How military police soldiers are trained

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A soldier in camouflage and face paint. Text reads "Business Insider presents War Ready: Inside Army War Games."

Inside the Army's $16 million war games built to battle China — FULL DOCUMENTARY

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Drill sergeant with a black hat holding brown drill sergeant hat reacts to a drill sergeant scene from "Full Metal Jacket."

Army drill sergeant rates 11 more boot camp scenes in movies and TV

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Three Army soldiers around a howitzer in a field.

How Army artillery soldiers train to fire $4.3 million howitzers — the 'king of battle'

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Secret Service agents in suits and sunglasses standing in front of Donald Trump, who has a bloody ear.

How Secret Service agents are trained for a 'zero-fail mission'

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A field artillery soldier in camouflage next to a howitzer

41 essential items an Army artillery soldier brings to battle

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A sergeant wearing the traditional TAPS rig on the left; an officer holding the prototype jungle rig on the right.

Why this prototype combat rig could help Army soldiers fight a possible war with China

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A Marine Corps officer in a camouflage uniform holding a war belt.

43 essential items Marine Corps officers bring to battle

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A United States Marine in camouflage points a gun in the woods.

INSIDE QUANTICO — how Marine Corps officers survive the 7-month Basic School

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An instructor yelling at a recruit division commander in training

How Navy boot camp instructors are trained

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A military training instructor hanging from a pull-up bar doing a command voice exercise

What Air Force boot camp instructors go through in training

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A Slagel DFAC cook loading 500 pounds of beef knuckle into pans

How the military's largest cafeteria feeds 4,500 soldiers in 90 minutes

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A New Zealand Army soldier tries a US military MRE.

MRE review — New Zealand soldier rates US Army field rations

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A cook at the Naval Academy prepares lunch

How the US Naval Academy prepares 13,500 meals a day for 4,400 midshipmen

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Two military experts react to an image in Saving Private Ryan

Military experts rate 70 military battles in movies and television

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A DAGRE member wearing camouflage performs a training exercise.

How Air Force commandos train to protect VIPs in combat zones

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A freshman, or "knob" at The Citadel gets his haircut on matriculation day on August 12, 2023.

What new Citadel military college "knobs" go through on day one at the controversial school

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A US Army solder eats a small piece of a coconut in the jungle.

Every survival technique Army jungle soldiers learn in training

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An air commando runs through a field during a training mission.

Every item an air commando carries for a mission

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A US Army jungle warfare instructor wears camouflage.

How Army jungle soldiers apply camouflage to hide and survive in combat

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A cook pouring a bag of waffle fries onto a deep-frying conveyor belt.

How the Air Force Academy makes 10,000 meals a day for 4,000 cadets

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An MQ-9 Reaper drone getting maintenance.

How Air Force drone pilots train to fly the $32 million MQ-9 Reaper