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What is the Joint Service General Purpose Mask M50/M51? When looking at the description alone, it may be easy to confuse this type of mask with medical prote...

What is the military tape test? Some military-oriented blogs describe it as a body mass measurement technique for military officers, but looking at individua...

What is an MOS or Military Occupational Specialty? The short answer is this is the term used by certain military branches to describe the kinds of jobs you c...

What Is OPSEC? Short for Operation Security, also referred to as Operations Security and occasionally as “operational security,” OPSEC sounds like it might p...

What is information warfare? The definition according to the Central Intelligence Agency isn’t strictly defined; the military services and Pentagon agencies ...

Sports fans are very familiar with the concept of the military flyover–military aircraft have graced major league sporting events for almost as long as...

What is martial law? How does it differ from other states of emergency? These are questions on the minds of many in times of national emergency whether it’s ...

Updated May 27, 2020 What does a “Stop Movement” order mean? This is a directive that was applied to military troops at the start of the coronavi...

The military phonetic alphabet uses 26 code words to represent each letter of the alphabet. The functionality of the Military Phonetic Alphabet is a communic...

There are many ways a military member can be disciplined for failure to obey direct orders, failure to adapt to a military environment, financial irresponsib...