Terms Only Those Who Served in The Air Force Will Understand
The Air Force, like the other military branches, developed their own language and culture throughout the years. Here are some of them.
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The Air Force, like the other military branches, developed their own language and culture throughout the years. Here are some of them.
So I got into a brief exchange on Twitter the other day About John Wayne being a draft dodger in WWII. These claims go back for decades, leveled by biographers, some historians, and some who hate John Wayne for the image he enjoys as the expression of American manhood: Stoic, fair-minded, moral, and forthright. In […]
Former Navy SEAL and later Delta Force Chief Surgeon Bob Adams tells the story of the near loss of his six-year-old son to an infection. Bob was then a third-year medical student but he knew something wasn’t right about the treatment his son was receiving.
Doctor Bob Adams graduated from the Naval Academy and became a Navy SEAL. While in the Reserves he finished medical school and joined the Army. He then found himself as the Chief Surgeon for Delta Force.
We all want a piece of comfortable clothing underneath. These military shorts are loved by many, and here’s why.
The Air Force will be implementing a fresh approach to physical fitness by letting Airmen choose their own PT test. Will it work?
Our family moved every three years during my formative years. We were in Yokosuka, Japan, when President Kennedy was shot and killed. It was a Boy Scout Jamboree day. Our troop produced a display on first aid, and I staffed the booth. My uniform was ironed and creased, and my merit badge sash had fifteen […]
Charms candy sounds quite… charming, but the marines believed that eating these would summon all the havoc in the world.
In this final part of the Dick Marcinko interviews, Dick makes the prediction that terrorists will hit the United States with a Dirty-Bomb as the tactics of the terrorists shift from mass casualty attacks to economic warfare against our power grid, water supply and ports.
Finding the right person is hard, especially when you’re deployed in the middle of a desert. These military dating sites could help with that.
Dick Marcinko talks about their operations against Air Force One security when they put a 500lb bomb close to the aircraft. When it was discovered EOD failed to account for it being boobytrapped. Dick also has a lot to say about the misuse of SEAL Teams as door kickers and the detrimental effect it will have on their core skills in waterborne operations.
In part seven of the Dick Marcinko interviews, Dick tells us about the formation of Red Cell, a command set up to test the defensive capabilities of military and government installations against terrorist attacks. Rather than employ the expertise and gear available to a SEAL Team in testing these facilities, Marcinkos team operated with nothing more on hand that a good “Second Story Man” would have at his disposal.