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Here in the United States, we tend to reflect on history as it pertains to us. We look back at the tragedy of war through a specifically American perspective, and with good reason. Our holidays like Memorial Day and Veterans Day aren’t intended to simply celebrate the service and sacrifice of the brave men and […]
Editor’s Note: The following email was sent to Fabiola Santiago at the Miami Herald after her article was published criticizing Brandon Webb’s recent article that was featured in Men’s Journal. Following the publication of Santiago’s article, comments to the original column were disabled, and then all comments were eventually deleted. -Desiree Huitt, Managing Editor From: N Betts Date: Fri, Apr 21, 2017 […]
Read Part 3 HERE At that time, abject poverty was not limited to outlying coastal islands. The Korean War had wrecked the entire peninsula so badly that many thought Korea would never recover. Split at the 38th parallel, North Korea had inherited an industrial base, but South Korea was rural and agrarian, its agricultural production […]
Over the weekend, the Afghan National Army suffered one of its worst losses of life when unarmed soldiers leaving prayer services were ambushed by Taliban soldiers disguised as fellow Army members. To give perspective and “eyes-on-the-ground” experience, Buck brought on Zack Asmus, a writer for SOFREP and former Air Force Combat Controller who recently completed […]
Few events capture the American imagination more completely than the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Ever since that fateful day in Texas, people have wondered if there could be more to the story than the official account suggests, perhaps because of how traumatic losing America’s young and charismatic president was at the time… or […]
The Special Operations community is always under the spotlight even though they themselves would rather remain in the shadows as the “Quiet Professionals” but because of their nature, the public and the government are fascinated by them. As a result, too many times, people in government with no operational experience, nor any idea what it […]
The images were stark and startling after the debacle at Desert One in Iran on April 24, 1980, 37 years ago today. An incinerated C-130 aircraft and six RH-53 helicopters left with bodies burned and strewn about spoke of the failure of the United States to rescue the 52 diplomats and Embassy personnel held in […]
The following article was written by former Ranger Marty Skovlund, Jr., please check out his website HERE. – Desiree According to data from the Veterans Administration, there are approximately 68,000 veterans in the United States that are diagnosed with opioid-use disorders. It’s a deadly problem, with the veteran demographic twice as likely to die from […]
Allow your intrepid author to begin with this caveat: Neither I nor any other former SEAL, Ranger, Marine Raider, Special Forces guy, or CIA officer has his or her shit totally together all the time. I am not here to fool you into believing that. Lots of us do have our shit together a good deal of […]
The men of 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 3rd Marine Recon Battalion first escaped death in the form of a U-shaped ambush by Taliban forces late in the afternoon on June 6, 2011. Then, they escaped death again, this time from a 500-pound GBU-54 laser-guided bomb dropped 34 meters from their position about an hour after they requested supporting […]
Some people tend to get touchy about their birthdays as they get older, and I can certainly understand the reasoning behind it. We all celebrate the important touchstones of our transition into adulthood at eighteen and twenty-one because each birthday that came prior served as “one more” toward achieving independence, becoming self-reliant, or maybe just […]
Anyone who as spent more than 5 minutes in the military has heard the phase, “muscle memory”. The idea of muscle memory is to practice a task until it becomes more reflex than active action. In other words, train like you fight. We used to practice all sorts of drills with muscle memory in mind: […]
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