We Are The Mighty

3 days ago | wearethemighty.com | Blake Stilwell

How often have you gone to a local business and felt too awkward to ask if they offered a military discount? How often have you just plain forgotten? Entrepreneur Freddie Rothschild heard that gripe often. “That stuck with me. Something that’s meant to show appreciation shouldn’t feel like a burden,” Rothschild said. While Rothschild didn’t serve in the military, both of his grandfathers served in World War II. “I grew up hearing about their stories from my dad.

1 week ago | wearethemighty.com | Blake Stilwell

If Russian novelist and Crimean War veteran Leo Tolstoy is right about war being a chess match, we may not have to worry so much about fighting AI-led robots on a futuristic, “Terminator” like battlefield. At least, not yet. It turns out that some AI models are really bad at chess, specifically ChatGPT. Technology site Futurism found software engineer Robert Caruso’s LinkedIn post, wherein he reported that the popular AI bot got “absolutely wrecked” by an Atari 2600 playing Atari Chess.

1 week ago | wearethemighty.com | Bethaney Phillips

Any military spouse knows the daily trials of being married to military personnel, but the milspouse is an unsung hero almost everywhere else. For the general public, it’s just another job, one that few people understand what the stakes can be. And for this reason, it hasn’t always been easy to talk about. Luckily, in these more modern, cosmopolitan times, it’s more kosher to convey the hardships of military life and the changes that come with it, especially when you are not the military member.

1 week ago | wearethemighty.com | Logan Nye

Sometimes, the absolute legends in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and their booster clubs are so funny that we almost forget they’re actually, at every moment, at war. And that was the case today when Reddit user GermanDronePilot on r/UkraineWarVideoReport shared the video of a Ukrainian pouring ball bearings into the casing for a “shaped” charge. But the shape of the object is, well, not what you would typically expect. Or maybe you knew it would come to this eventually.

2 weeks ago | wearethemighty.com | Jessica Evans

Military spouse personas aren’t just a branding thing. They’re a survival mode, shapeshifted. If you’ve ever gone through a yearlong deployment or even a months-long TDY, you already know: you become someone else. Not just once. Over and over again. You rotate through entire personality shifts just to keep life running, the kids fed, the anxiety low-ish, and the house from burning down. These milspouse personas? They’re not random. They’re recognizable. You might even recognize yourself.