Christopher Chaos

The Army asked Hershey for a chocolate bar soldiers would save for emergencies. Meet WWII’s dense D ration, its boiled-potato flavor brief,…

Military challenge coins can start a coin check, reward a soldier, or bring back a whole deployment. Here are the true stories—and…

A thumb-size opener fed generations of troops and stayed on veterans’ key rings long after C-rations disappeared. The P-38’s real stories—and its…

A stray dog followed Connecticut soldiers to World War I, survived the trenches, and became an Army legend. Here is the remarkable…

It is officially a poncho liner. To generations of soldiers, the woobie is the one piece of field gear that somehow feels…

Inflatable tanks, battlefield soundtracks, and convincing impersonations: meet the real WWII soldiers who made German forces believe the wrong army was in…

From Roger Staubach’s Vietnam tour to Chad Hennings’ A-10 missions and Rayuan Lane III’s modern Marine-NFL path, these service-academy players reached Sundays…

From woodland BDUs and polished black boots to the AFT, OCP uniforms and fewer training posts, see how the U.S. Army changed…