Culture of physical fitness changing in the military

The Marine Corps is creating a new fitness job to pad their ranks and protect Marines from injury via prevention, something we’ve enjoyed in SOF. It made a huge difference to me. I think this is a great new trend in the conventional ranks. What’s your fran time? What’s your bench? These are couple of […]

Is Naval Aviation Culture Dead?

This opinion piece by former SECNAV John Lehman originally appeared in the Naval Proceedings Magazine in September 2011. By John Lehman The swaggering-flyer mystique forged over the past century has been stymied in recent years by political correctness. We celebrate the 100th anniversary of U.S. naval aviation this year, but the culture that has become legend was […]

The Combat Veteran Counter-Public: By Politics and Pop-Culture

We congregate in the bars, or small social enclaves, and often alone, other times disconnected in the wildlands of nature or an urban setting . . . But most often at home where many spend their time in superfluous social-media bouts, some are soaked in alcohol, others intoxicated by the drug and/or narcotic of their […]

Church Gunman Hijacks Rhodesian and South African Culture to Support Murder

Last night nine people were senselessly murdered at a predominately black church in Charleston, South Carolina during a prayer service.  The gunmen has been identified by police as Dylann Roof.  From his profile picture on Facebook (shown as the featured image of this article) we can begin to identify a possible motive.  Seen on Roof’s […]