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Football Rivalries are a Laughing Matter

NFL fans have been tussling over team rivalries since the first game kicked off in 1920. They’ll probably continue to tussle every week until the end of time. If you’re still ticked about the 14-0 rout of the Panhandles by the Triangles in 1920, you’re a rivalry diehard. RIVALRIES FOR THE AGES        Chicago Bears and… Read more »

From the Academy to the Field

With the 2021 Army-Navy football game in the rear view mirror, are you going to see West Point and Annapolis players in future NFL games or on the AFE Pro Blitz tour? When a service academy football player dreams of going pro, it’s not as easy as signing on the dotted line after college graduation…. Read more »

NFL Bod Workout

Sure, some of it may be genetics, but NFL player bodies are made, not born. Just like your own PT, professional football players build on their regimen of hard work, good nutrition and laser focus to be ready for the rigors of the job. When you meet current players during the AFE Pro Blitz Tour… Read more »

New Watchlist: Movies about the Military Family

From the early days of American history to the more modern tales of camaraderie in service, we highlight four movies that show a military family coming together for their country. Brotherhood, Heroism. Duty. These are only a few of the words that come to mind when we think of the military family. Stationed across the… Read more »

Songs of war and healing: D.C. veterans traveled to Nashville to create music

By John Kelly, Washington Post This article was originally published in the Washington Post on March 2, 2020   For Calvin Tildon, Dec. 23, 1968, was a day full of smoke and fire and blood. Dec. 23, 1968, was the day the young Army lieutenant stepped from a helicopter into a pitched battle in a Vietnamese… Read more »

UFC fighters bring MMA clinic to Yokosuka Naval Base

More than 40 sailors and local American and Japanese civilians punched, wrestled, grappled and choked their way through a mixed martial arts clinic led Saturday by a retired Ultimate Fighting Championship competitor.