An Eighth Air Force surgeon decided in World War II to armor the men instead
Rust is the color the Air Force picked, and the choice was not about looks.
Size 9W, olive drab canvas over black leather, the two boots tied together with red
Seventeen layers of Kevlar aramid fiber, treated with phenolic resin, make up the PASGT helmet
Polish soldiers are getting a new field uniform, cut from tougher fabric and printed in
Tech. Sgt. Bernard Mechanic’s leather flight jacket carries 37 hand-painted bombs on its right breast,
An oval of monel metal, an inch and a half long, carried the most personal
A sailor’s bell-bottom trousers close with a buttoned flap, and the story attached to its
One boot in five. That was the defect rate a July 2026 inspection found in
The U.S. Army’s M1 steel helmet started production in April 1941, according to the Army’s