Loadout Room photo of the day | “America’s Battalion” attend training at MCMWTC

Loadout Room photo of the day | “America’s Battalion” attend training at MCMWTC

Courtesy of Defense Video Imagery Distribution System Marines from 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, hike to a potential climbing route for their night climb during Mountain Training Exercise 4-17 aboard Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Calif., August 1, 2017. Marines with 2/8, based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., conducted the […]

Op-Ed: Europe isn’t the bastion of racial harmony some may think

Op-Ed: Europe isn’t the bastion of racial harmony some may think

Many US leftists are promoting Europe as a place of racial harmony and joy, where people are not racists and everybody runs through the fields happily singing kumbaya. Well that is a big fat lie. Whatever ancestral ties the US might have with Europe, and although we see ourselves as a cultural entity, the so-called […]

SOFREP Archive: Navy SEAL lessons learned for water rescue operations

SOFREP Archive: Navy SEAL lessons learned for water rescue operations

It is mid-August 2016, and Louisiana is inundated with a flood of Biblical proportions.  According to press reports, the ceaseless rain has killed at least 13, and forced tens of thousands more from their homes.  More than two feet of rain has fallen over the course of five days, and forecasts show more possibly coming, which can […]

Op-Ed: Culture wars and the turning of American cities into Palmyra

Op-Ed: Culture wars and the turning of American cities into Palmyra

Many people don’t understand why universities include a core curriculum of mandatory study, one that usually includes study of classic western art and literature.  This came about in the aftermath of World War I and was reinforced by the horrors of World War Two.  The western world had come perilously close to destroying ourselves, our […]

Op-Ed: Trump’s war in Afghanistan: Why are we doing this to ourselves?

Op-Ed: Trump’s war in Afghanistan: Why are we doing this to ourselves?

President Trump certainly did not start the war in Afghanistan, nor did he perpetuate it for over a decade, but as he seemed to acknowledge himself in his speech last night, the war is now his.  In regards to Trump and Afghanistan, I would reflect back to my previous article about the so-called Deep State. […]

Arms of the Soviet Union | DP-28 Light Machine Gun

Arms of the Soviet Union | DP-28 Light Machine Gun

Shortly after the Communists were victorious in their revolution and ousting of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, they set to strengthen their armed forces. The problems with Imperial Russian military thinking became obvious to the Soviets after they suffered more than 5 million casualties in World War One. The Russian’s only machine gun available at that […]

Get to know America’s 3 strategic bombers, and watch them fly in formation

Get to know America’s 3 strategic bombers, and watch them fly in formation

The United States boasts not only the largest and most powerful air force in the world, it actually boasts three of them.  If you were to divide the airborne assets employed by the Air Force, Navy, and Army into service for separate nations, each branch would earn a spot on the military power podium; that’s […]

BREAKING: Terror attack in Barcelona; Hostage situation in progress

BREAKING: Terror attack in Barcelona; Hostage situation in progress

Barcelona was the scene of what Spain’s Department of Interior is calling a terrorist attack this morning.  According to witnesses at the scene, a van rammed into a crowd of people, killing at least one, and injuring a number of others.  After the incident, two gunmen reportedly exited the vehicles and barricaded themselves inside one […]