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Back in 2010, a group of the UFC’s top fighters joined forces with the United States Marine Corps to do some training. There’s no question that the athletes that compete in the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization know how to handle themselves in a scrap, but watching the three-part series offers an important glimpse […]
We tend not to go to movies looking for realism. Even the movies we watch that are “based on” or “inspired by” true stories tend to bend the facts of the tale around a more logical (or marketable) narrative that audiences would be more likely to get behind, but some common tropes have become so […]
Capt. Aaron Thomas, a flight surgeon with the 1st Special Operations Medical Group, wipes sweat off his forehead during Task Force Exercise Olympus Archer at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Aug. 18, 2016. Olympus Archer focuses on maximizing training opportunities for more than 230 Air Commandos, with the 1st Special Operations Wing, emphasizing on […]
The trailer for the new Taran Killam helmed action comedy “Killing Gunther” looked like an opportunity to watch an action icon introduce some levity into his normal shtick, with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Gunther” featured heavily throughout the two-and-a-half-minute commercial. With witty one-liners, plentiful explosions, and Schwarzenegger’s smiling face abutting each shot of the rest of the […]
THE PLAYERS The Clinton Foundation – a non-profit organization run by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Its mission is “to bring people together to take on the biggest challenges of the 21st century.” They focus on areas like global health, climate change, economic development, health and wellness, and programs built to enable girls and women […]
Barcelona—Everyone saw it coming. Failing to respond to Madrid’s ultimatum, Catalonia is set to lose its autonomy. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will meet his cabinet on Saturday to decide which measures of Article 155 will be enforced. Rajoy is attending an EU meeting in Brussels, and that’s why the cabinet won’t meet today. But, […]
I picked up a Ruger LCP for a steal a few months ago. I wasn’t on the market for compact pistol (I’m a big enough guy that my EDC Glock 19 rarely gives me any trouble concealing) but I am, for better or worse, a gun guy. When I’m presented with an opportunity to buy […]
Fighting between the Karen people and the Burmese (Myanmar) government dates back to World War II. I went for a trip into the jungles of Burma to meet with the Karen people back in 2015, and it was quite the profound experience. The conflict between the Burmese and its surrounding ethnic minorities has been described […]
U.S. Air Force Special Operations Surgical Teams practiced integration operations with a special operations partner force during a Special Tactics exercise, Hurlburt Field, Fla., Oct. 16, 2015. SOST members are military medical professionals selected to provide battlefield trauma and other surgical support in a special operations mission set. SOST members often forward deploy to austere […]
If there’s one magic rule you’re not allowed to violate and still maintain your gym-guy credibility, it’s the “form rule.” It’s imperative that you use excellent form in each of your lifts to maximize results, prevent injury, and keep the folks around you from looking at you with a silent side eye glance that is […]
On October 19th, 2004, an aid worker by the name of Margaret Hassan was kidnapped to be murdered weeks later. Hassan held a dual citizenship between England and Iraq, having been married to Tahseen Ali Hassan and moving to Iraq with him in the ’70s. She taught English at the British Council of Baghdad and […]
After shooting five coworkers, and killing three of them, an employee at a Maryland based construction business managed to evade police long enough to drive to Delaware, where he shot one more former colleague before being taken into custody. Radee Labeeb Prince, 37, walked into his place of employment, Advanced Granite Solutions at the Emmorton […]
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