LANSING Soldiers assigned to the Michigan Army National Guard’s (MIARNG) 745th Ordnance Company, based out of Grayling, ...

Spartan wearing a Corinthian helmet and wrapped in a cape. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Photograph by Bridgeman/AC Each soldier would carry 20 days worth of provisions ...

Soldiers with a Michigan Army National Guard in Grayling soon will leave the U.S. to spend about a year disarming explosives ...

Sparta was unique among the Greek city-states because of the rigid program of military indoctrination it instilled in its citizens. Legend dates the founding of the city to Mycenean times, when ...

Under instructions from the Spartan king, Cleomenes, the first task of the new government was to banish Cleisthenes' most powerful allies. Altogether over 700 households were brutally cast out of ...

Soldiers from the Michigan Army National Guard’s (MIARNG) 745th Ordnance Company, based out of Grayling prepared to depart on ...

Spartan soldiers wore red cloaks, so bloodstains wouldn't show up. They also grew their hair long and would comb it before going into battle. Fighting wars was what the Spartans did best.

The Grayling-based Michigan Army National Guard’s 745th Ordnance Company will soon be deployed to the Middle East to support ...

Add to that the SR-18 Roadblock heavy armor, consisting of a Spartan-style crested helmet and beefy pauldrons, and you can kit yourself out like a tanky, hellenic super-soldier of the future.

Spartan soldiers wore red cloaks, so bloodstains wouldn't show up. They also grew their hair long and would comb it before going into battle. Fighting wars was what the Spartans did best.

Soldiers from the Michigan Army National Guard's 745th Ordnance Company are deploying in the Middle East to support Operation ...