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A United States Marine Corps drill instructor addresses a recruit at Camp Pendleton during boot camp.

How Marine recruits survive boot camp in San Diego

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A soldier in a climbing gym presenting ski boots and an M4 carbine.

Army mountain soldier breaks down every piece of gear he takes on a mission

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A cook in a submarine kitchen checking on platters of hot rolls.

How Navy submarine cooks feed 150 sailors at sea

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Ralph Dahilig standing among other US Marines, all in camouflage.

Meet War Bag — the 5-foot-4 Marine who beat the odds at boot camp

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A culinary specialist in training mixes a tub of mac and cheese.

How Navy cooks are trained to feed 5,000 sailors on aircraft carriers

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A Norwich cadre member yelling as he takes the cadre oath.

Inside day zero at Norwich University — America's oldest private military college

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A drill sergeant pushes against a line of soldiers holding shields during a riot control drill.

How military police soldiers are trained

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A soldier in camouflage and face paint looking into the camera.

Inside the Army's $16 million war games built to battle China — FULL DOCUMENTARY

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Drill sergeant with a black hat holding brown drill sergeant hat reacts to a drill sergeant scene from "Full Metal Jacket."

Army drill sergeant rates 11 more boot camp scenes in movies and TV

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Three Army soldiers around a howitzer in a field.

How Army artillery soldiers train to fire $4.3 million howitzers — the 'king of battle'

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Secret Service agents in suits and sunglasses standing in front of Donald Trump, who has a bloody ear.

How Secret Service agents are trained for a 'zero-fail mission'

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A field artillery soldier in camouflage next to a howitzer

41 essential items an Army artillery soldier brings to battle

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A sergeant wearing the traditional TAPS rig on the left; an officer holding the prototype jungle rig on the right.

Why this prototype combat rig could help Army soldiers fight a possible war with China

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A Marine Corps officer in a camouflage uniform holding a war belt.

43 essential items Marine Corps officers bring to battle

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A United States Marine in camouflage points a gun in the woods.

INSIDE QUANTICO — how Marine Corps officers survive the 7-month Basic School

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How Navy boot camp instructors are trained

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A military training instructor hanging from a pull-up bar doing a command voice exercise

What Air Force boot camp instructors go through in training

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A Slagel DFAC cook loading 500 pounds of beef knuckle into pans

How the military's largest cafeteria feeds 4,500 soldiers in 90 minutes

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A New Zealand Army soldier tries a US military MRE.

MRE review — New Zealand soldier rates US Army field rations

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A cook at the Naval Academy prepares lunch

How the US Naval Academy prepares 13,500 meals a day for 4,400 midshipmen

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Two military experts react to an image in Saving Private Ryan

Military experts rate 70 military battles in movies and television

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A DAGRE member wearing camouflage performs a training exercise.

How Air Force commandos train to protect VIPs in combat zones

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A freshman, or "knob" at The Citadel gets his haircut on matriculation day on August 12, 2023.

What new Citadel military college "knobs" go through on day one at the controversial school

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A US Army solder eats a small piece of a coconut in the jungle.

Every survival technique Army jungle soldiers learn in training

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An air commando runs through a field during a training mission.

Every item an air commando carries for a mission

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Army soldier wears jungle camouflage.

How Army jungle soldiers apply camouflage to hide and survive in combat

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A cook pouring a bag of waffle fries onto a deep-frying conveyor belt.

How the Air Force Academy makes 10,000 meals a day for 4,000 cadets

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An MQ-9 Reaper drone getting maintenance.

How Air Force drone pilots train to fly the $32 million MQ-9 Reaper

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A competitor crawls through the "worm pit" on an obstacle course during the Army's Best Ranger competition in 2023.

What it takes to survive the Army's 60-hour Best Ranger Competition

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A chef at West Point cracks ribs into a large pot

How West Point makes over 13,000 meals a day for Army cadets

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Every item in an Air Force gunship pilot's go bag

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As the US prepares for potential conflict with China, this is how the Army is training for jungle warfare

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Two men in military fatigues stand beside the AC-130J Ghostrider gunship

How pilots train to fly the $165 million AC-130J Ghostrider gunship

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US Army Ranger holding M4

Every piece of gear in an Army Ranger's night-raid bag

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How Army Drill Sergeants Are Trained

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How Air Force pilots fly the controversial $19 million A-10 Warthog

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Navy Dive instructor about to push a trainee underwater and into the submarine escape tank trainer

How Navy sailors train to work on $2 billion submarines

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US Army Jungle trainee walking in river, in a jungle in hawaii

Every piece of gear in an Army jungle soldier's 72-hour bag

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A-10 Warthog pilot in cockpit

Every piece of gear in an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot's bag