We Are The Mighty

2 weeks ago | wearethemighty.com | Bethaney Phillips

Of all things to lose track of, billion-dollar weapons of mass destruction should be high on the list. At least that’s something common sense would have you believe. Despite the level of international security that could be at risk, the lost funds, and the pure insanity of losing something so important, Uncle Sam has done just that. Multiple times over. Take a look at these stranger-than-fiction instances of lost nuclear missiles and the stories of how they fell off the government’s radar.

2 weeks ago | wearethemighty.com | Joel Searls

As part of the 2025 NASCAR Salutes program over Memorial Day weekend at the Coca-Cola 600, Ally #48 driver, Alex Bowman, will be representing the name of a fallen hero on his car as a small nod to military families and veterans alike. We Are The Mighty sat down with race car driver Alex Bowman and John Kempel, whose uncle is being honored at the race. This year’s honoree, Michael Kempel, is the uncle of a current Ally auto insurance business employee based in Chicago, John Kempel.

2 weeks ago | wearethemighty.com | Bethaney Phillips

Just as the U.S. military has invented many everyday items – whether they meant to or not – they also brought many weapons to light, including those that never made it to battle. Though the research and effort went into creating said weapons, ultimately they were found unnecessary. However, the process behind these weapons is a story worthy of the history books, including the research that got them there.

2 weeks ago | wearethemighty.com | Miguel Ortiz

Electronic warfare is an integral part of modern combat. Allied jammers can deny enemy communications, impair the targeting of friendly units, and even hide them from enemy detection altogether. The U.S. Navy employs the ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System on the E/A-18G Growler aircraft for its electronic warfare capability. Introduced in 1972, the legacy ALQ-99 suffers from poor reliability and system failures that have caused crews to fly with undetected faults.

2 weeks ago | wearethemighty.com | Blake Stilwell

It’s a popular sight on television and in movies. Many of us have seen it in paintings or ancient frescoes. Gladiators battling lions for the glory of being in the arena were a popular spectacle of life in ancient Rome. At least, we all thought they were. The truth is that there was no actual physical evidence that gladiators actually fought lions – until now. An archeological site at the Roman city of Eboracum (which is today the English city of York) uncovered a mass graveyard.