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Tsarnaev Guilty on All 30 Counts: Boston (CNN)Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, his face a blank, stood with his head bowed and his hands clasped as the guilty verdicts tolled one after another for what seemed like an eternity: Guilty of using weapons of mass destruction, guilty of bombing a place of public use, guilty of conspiracy and […]

The U.S. airman was with an elite Air Force pararescue unit when he helped hoist her to safety from her family’s destroyed home in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

So many crazy stories, so little time. We’ll take a closer look at some noteworthy items in our news roundup. Send me anything we may have missed on twitter at @BKactual.  Good stories about public nudity/drug use/insane people receive special consideration. Deserter Bowe Bergdahl Facing Article 32: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who slipped […]

Everyone see what I did there? Alternative titles included, “Beer and Bloating” and “Sneers and Gloating,” both of which, while completely apropos, didn’t quite roll of the tongue the way I wanted them to. So we press on. SHOT show 2015! For those of you who aren’t familiar, this is the Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor […]

According to my admittedly unscientific survey, 95% of the American public is unable to muster any outrageous outrage over water being poured on faces.

If you haven’t been to the Hale Koa hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii, you need to make it happen. This military-only hotel really is the proverbial wretched hive of scum and villainy, and I mean that as a compliment;  I absolutely loved it. Nowhere else on the planet are you as likely to hear groups of […]

If you haven’t heard about it yet, the PJs from the Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing jumped in to the Pacific Ocean, about 900 miles off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, to save a sick child at sea. The 129th put up this great video on their Facebook page, where you can see […]

With a staggering total of 6 Air Force Crosses, 30 Silver Stars, and hundreds of Bronze stars, the 24th Special Operations Wing of the USAF is easily the most highly decorated unit of the Air Force in the post-Vietnam era. In a ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Florida, 4 Airmen of the 24th SOW recently added to that […]

December 6, 2013, Westhampton Beach, New York: The 103rd Rescue Squadron hosted a ceremony to commemorate the awarding of Bronze Stars with “V” device to six Air Force Pararescuemen for an extraordinary rescue mission under fire in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan last year. The Air National Guardsmen of the 103rd, made famous by their portrayal in the […]

At around 10 p.m. on Sept. 14, 2012, 15 heavily armed insurgents penetrated the perimeter of Camp Bastion, a base in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Slipping through a hole in the wire, heavily armed and outfitted in American military uniforms, they wreaked havoc across the northeast flight line, killing two American Marines, wounding nine […]

Tragedy struck last weekend with the news that world-class climber and guide, Marty Schmidt, along with son Denali Schmidt, were killed when an avalanche struck their camp on the Pakistani mountain K2. Tributes to the father and son have been coming in from all corners of the globe. The Sydney Morning-Herald, Climbing Magazine, and Rock […]

If asked to name, without a shred of evidence or data for backup, three groups of American combatants that have caused the most mayhem and chaos in Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, these would be my guess: Apache helicopter pilot/gunners, AC-130 gunners, and Air Force Combat Controllers.  (Drone Operators… NO.) Please read this Air Force Times […]