Despite the near-freezing rain in Fort Stewart, Georgia, where tank trails that are usually hardened and sturdy have become ...

Spartan wearing a Corinthian helmet and wrapped in a cape. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Photograph by Bridgeman/AC Each soldier would carry 20 days worth of provisions ...

Sparta was unique among the Greek city-states because of the rigid program of military indoctrination it instilled in its citizens. Legend dates the founding of the city to Mycenean times, when ...

Under instructions from the Spartan king, Cleomenes, the first task of the new government was to banish Cleisthenes' most powerful allies. Altogether over 700 households were brutally cast out of ...

Soldiers from the Michigan Army National Guard’s (MIARNG) 745th Ordnance Company, based out of Grayling prepared to depart on th ...

Spartan soldiers wore red cloaks, so bloodstains wouldn't show up. They also grew their hair long and would comb it before going into battle. Fighting wars was what the Spartans did best.

Add to that the SR-18 Roadblock heavy armor, consisting of a Spartan-style crested helmet and beefy pauldrons, and you can kit yourself out like a tanky, hellenic super-soldier of the future.

Fighters of the 3rd Operational Brigade Spartan named after Colonel Petro Bolbochan of the National Guard of Ukraine, captured a Russian serviceman o ...

LANSING Soldiers assigned to the Michigan Army National Guard’s (MIARNG) 745th Ordnance Company, based out of Grayling, ...

Spartan soldiers wore red cloaks, so bloodstains wouldn't show up. They also grew their hair long and would comb it before going into battle. Fighting wars was what the Spartans did best.

The unit's last deployment was in June of 2020 to the CENTCOM Theatre in support of Operation Spartan Shield and Operation Inherent Resolve. This time, the soldiers are heading to the Middle East ...