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09/14/2026

This Is When Germany Knew They Lost

Military members in jobs deemed to be closest to combat will have to keep up higher scores on their annual fitness tests...
09/14/2026

Military members in jobs deemed to be closest to combat will have to keep up higher scores on their annual fitness tests under new Pentagon rules, though each service will decide on its own what those standards will be.

A memo released Aug. 31 by the Department of Defense will require all “combat arms” troops — jobs whose duties and training are primarily aimed at direct combat — will need to maintain fitness scores of at least 70% in their service-specific fitness tests.

Notably, the requirement applies to the regular service fitness tests. Combat arms troops in all services, which covers more than 80 military occupations, must also take a separate combat field test each year, meeting separate requirements also set by their service.

What “70%” means, however, is less clear. Officials with the Army, Navy and Marine Corps each said each service is determining its own rules for the 70% cutoff.

For the Army, the requirement will largely mirror standards already in place. Soldiers in designated combat occupations — which include close to two dozen jobs like infantry, armor, and Special Forces — must score at least 350 of 500 possible points on the five-event Army Fitness Test and earn a minimum of 60 points on each individual event. The test consists of a three-repetition maximum deadlift, hand-release push-ups, sprint-drag-carry plank, and two-mile run.

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09/14/2026

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Former DEVGRU operator Robert O'Neill's gear worn on the night of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pa...
09/14/2026

Former DEVGRU operator Robert O'Neill's gear worn on the night of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011, May 1st by U.S. time. Pieces of that history are now genuinely on public display, his combat fatigues at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, and a uniform shirt at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York, unveiled in 2014 alongside a brick recovered from bin Laden's compound and a challenge coin donated by the CIA officer known publicly only as "Maya," the real figure behind Zero Dark Thirty's central character.

The shirt itself carries a small, deliberate detail worth noticing, its American flag patch is sewn on backward, the stars facing forward, a tradition across the U.S. military meant to evoke a flag-bearer charging into battle ahead of his unit rather than trailing behind it. Museum Director Alice Greenwald called the garment something that connects visitors in a powerful, immediate way to the operation itself, a single piece of cloth standing in for the entire decade-long manhunt that ended that night.

O'Neill has spoken at both institutions about the raid from his own perspective, telling 9/11 family members, survivors, and first responders in 2015 that the team went in for the people who never got a choice, the single mother who jumped rather than burn, the firefighters running up as everyone else ran down. Artifacts like these exist precisely for that reason, to let millions of visitors who'll never meet an operator stand close enough to something that was actually there.

Kevin Holland with Saddam Hussein, moments after his capture. Holland is the only known operator to have served in both ...
09/14/2026

Kevin Holland with Saddam Hussein, moments after his capture. Holland is the only known operator to have served in both of America’s tier one units, first at the Navy SMU and later at the Army SMU, a career that in any other context would sound made up.

He graduated West Wilkes High School in North Carolina in 1988 and went straight into the Navy, deploying into Desert Storm with a SEAL platoon doing deep reconnaissance and sniper work in northern Iraq at barely 20 years old, later supporting Operations Provide Comfort and Uphold Democracy. Ranked in the top one percent of Navy SEALs, he was tapped for the Navy SMU before leaving the service in 1997 to become a North Carolina Wildlife Officer, walking away from special operations entirely, until September 11th pulled him right back in. He returned to active duty and, remarkably, transitioned into the Army, earning his place at the Army SMU as well.

That combined career put him on the ground in Ad-Dawr, Iraq, on December 13, 2003, as part of Task Force 121’s C Squadron element that closed on a small spider hole hidden under debris. Holland was among the small team that reached in and pulled Saddam Hussein out by his hair and beard. Someone shouted a warning, and Holland put his r***e on the deposed dictator’s chest with the safety off before confirming he was unarmed. The Ace of Spades was in custody.

He suffered a severe combat injury in 2011 and retired in 2013 after twenty-five years of service split almost evenly between two branches and two of the most secretive units in the American military. SEAL. Wildlife officer. Delta operator. The man who pulled Saddam out of the hole.

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