It is unknown how many bayonets the military owned in 1916 or 1917, but it’s likely that almost all soldiers and Marines were issued bayonets back then, historians say.

Does the US military still use horses and bayonets? This question arises because of President Obama’s riposte against Mitt Romney on defense budgets in Monday night’s presidential debate.

Bayonets—the traditional stabbing blade usually fixed to a rifle’s muzzle—seem to be on their way out in the US Army in favor of the Inverted Multi-Purpose Ballistic Tomahawk Bayonet (IMBTB).

FILE-In this Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020 file photo, U.S. Army soldiers with their gear board an awaiting bus at Fort Bragg, N.C., as troops from the 82nd Airborne are deployed to the Middle East as ...

The United States is delivering artillery shells and mobile rocket artillery missiles to Ukraine, two U.S. officials told ...

Thieves stole an assortment of military equipment on Wednesday including three Humvees and 18 bayonets from the Army Reserve Center in Tustin, according to a local police statement issued on Friday.

TOPLINE Soldiers from the Old Guard, a ceremonial army unit based outside of Washington, D.C., were issued bayonets, scabbards and live ammunition in preparation to be deployed to police protests ...

WARSAW, Poland -- Paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade crossed the Lithuanian border at Kalvarija into Poland, Oct. 25, 2015, during the second day of Operation Bayonet Thrust, a more than ...

The soldiers were issued bayonets for their June 2 deployment — but told they were to remain in their scabbards and not attached to their service rifles, Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Mark A ...

The bayonet news broke at the same time the AP first reported that President Donald Trump ordered military aircraft to fly above demonstrators in a “show of force.” ...

Troops Were Issued Bayonets in DC Unrest, Military Chief Says "It is difficult for us to imagine a circumstance which could necessitate or justify the deployment of bayonets against American ...

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has confirmed a report by The Associated Press that some of the service members who were mobilized to Washington, D.C., last month in response to civil ...