JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING, D.C. -- For the new military spouse, military life can be full of uncharted waters. Pulling up stakes and starting a whole new life can be both exciting and scary, and ...

Anyone who’s navigated over land in the military has probably used a lensatic compass. Lensatic compasses contain a glow-in-the-dark chemical called tritium, a self-powered lighting source that ...

Most of us take for granted the fact that, when we need to drive to an Airbnb we rented for a weekend, or get to a new restaurant we saw on Instagram, our phones draw an imaginary line directly from ...

GPS began its life as a military technology in the 1970s, then everything changed in the late 80s when the US government decided to allow civilian use of the satellite network. Virtually every mobile ...

This military compass belonged to Major John Patterson of the Staffordshire Yeomanry. He was descended from the founders of Patterson & Stone, leather manufacturers of Walsall. The compass dates from ...