Norwood

Out here – in the non-war footing I can see why people lose it. It’s devoid of everything you’ve come to expect. Worse yet, there’s no sense of community. Even still, if you ever see me panicking in a bookstore or the airport wearing an OEF hat, just punch me in the face, I’ll need it.

Military people are passionate people, and SOF is very much so and aggressive. In my limited experience, but with open eyes, D.C. needs people who have life experience and understand service. A cultural problem on the Hill is that some who serve there believe that their service supersedes others.

Women are set to attend SOF training and join the force as operators, but the system may not be prepared to receive them.

As a new writer to the site, with an extensive, varied, and loyal audience I have to introduce myself. I am Norwood, and I turned thirty last April. That being said, I left the military last August and am completely out of service after eight years of active duty. I’m sure those will prove to […]

Female candidates are allowed to attend Special Forces selection. But many are forced to wait for indeterminate periods of time before attending.

In the military, we’re obsessed with creating new tools to use in war, in a tactical sense. But, the future of wars to come will be fought in the streets, and via proxies. We’ll need communication tools that are reliable, competent, and secure…

Would you treat a wounded Hezbollah soldier in the sands of Iraq? Would you release 1,000-pound bombs in support of Iranian surrogates on the ground?

Public speaking, emotional intelligence, and the ability to connect with others will be more important for the wars to come than our ability to fight.

We, as a nation, are in danger, both domestically and abroad. Yes, from terrorism, but also from cyber attacks and, in some ways, it’s the greater threat. Instead of a myopic view of foreign policy fixated on ISIL, we should spend time on the current and mounting cyber threat. The Pokemon craze reveals a great […]

Because of the nature of the deployment, nearly all of us dropped as low in weight as our bodies could handle. When I returned, THOR3 was an incredibly useful tool to rebuild and capitalize on the physical strengths I brought back with me.

There are seemingly unintended consequences of sequestration. I don’t know what else to blame for an inability to pay people what they deserve.

The system is meant to manage the force’s professional lives. In the end, many of the trackers get lost because the search engine they use to store the old trackers is very slow. As a result, trackers are created to track the trackers that aren’t acceptable.