Selected after one of the most demanding and highly competitive handgun trials in U.S. military history, the SIG SAUER M17 was awarded the Modular Handgun System (MHS) contract for the United States Army—cementing its role as the official sidearm of America’s armed forces. This U.S. Army 250th Anniversary Commemorative Edition…
The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is the lead ship of the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Her keel was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia on June 22, 1968, she was launched in 1972, and she was commissioned at Naval Station Norfolk on May 3, 1975. At the time, she represented…
The 34th Infantry Division was organized in 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I. It was formed primarily from National Guard units from Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. The division trained at Camp Cody, New Mexico, where the area’s frequent dust storms gave the…