Here is a lesson still relevant today from the “connoisseur of close combat” Lt. Col. Rex Applegate on how to get a rifle or carbine into action quickly from our April 1945 issue. When not ...

But after killing four insurgents, Bellavia was confronted by a wounded fighter who engaged him in hand-to-hand combat, forcing the soldier to pull out his Gerber Rex Applegate folding knife and ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP)-- A combat dog will finally be reunited in ... Monday night that the Air Force agreed to release Sgt. Rex into the care of former Cpl. Megan Leavey.