Mortar platoon commander Olga Bigar is better known in Ukraine by her callsign "Witch." Bigar was thrust into the fighting almost immediately after volunteering last year. Now helping defend Bakhmut, ...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - The 101st Airborne Division’s Soldiers past and present within the mortar platoon from 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment “Above the Rest”, 1st Brigade Combat Team “Bastogne” ...

Ukraine has faced questions about why it will not retreat from Bakhmut, now mostly held by Russia. As Ukraine gears up for its counteroffensive, one commander told Insider why the city is crucial.

U.S Army Soldiers, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry ...

The commander of a Ukrainian mortar platoon, whose callsign is "Witch," barks orders to her drone operator, whose callsign is "User," on the southern edge of Bakhmut. "User, don't zoom in so much," ...

In a recent episode of The Mandalorian (Chapter 14: The Tragedy), mortars made their debut in the world of Star Wars. Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Dec. 18, 2020. The ...

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany -- Twelve seconds is all the time the mortar platoon of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th ...

Ordered to hold vital hills east of Stettin, Wallin's mortar platoon sets up in a farm courtyard and rains shells on a ...

The Oscar-nominated film “Hidden Figures” tells the stories of three African-American women employed as “computers” at NASA in the early 1960s. These women — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and ...

The IDF recently deployed the Keshet 120 mm Autonomous Self Propelled Recoil Mortar System (manufactured by Soltam Systems Limited) that the head of the Army Headquarters Weapons Department, ...

This article by 1st. Lt. Patrick Cirenze originally appeared on Task & Purpose, a digital news and culture publication dedicated to military and veterans issues. In a recent episode of The Mandalorian ...