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In 2025, American porn star Whitney Wright visited Afghanistan, where she posed for glamour shots with Taliban fighters, held an AK-47, and toured Band-e Amir National Park. She documented her travels ...

Treatment built to correct distorted thinking doesn’t have a way to tell the difference between guilt that’s wrong and guilt that’s right. A Ranger fires through a doorway and kills someone he never ...

An AFT score and the promotion points it earns are two different numbers. Since replacing the ACFT on June 1, 2025, the Army Fitness Test has used five events worth up to 500 points altogether.

The last of this year’s UK Special Forces bi-annual “Exercise Chameleon” unfolded across late August and into September. It comprised a concentrated period of RAF tactical airlift, High-Altitude ...