Interview with Peter Berg, director of ‘Deepwater Horizon’ and ‘Lone Survivor’

Interview with Peter Berg, director of ‘Deepwater Horizon’ and ‘Lone Survivor’

Living in Texas, I remember the Deepwater Horizon oil rig fire and subsequent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico but I never imagined the terrifying hell-on-earth experience the workers on the rig endured. April 20, 2010, 11 people lost their lives in the largest oil disaster in the oil industry’s history. The rig was […]

Top 5 reasons to try out for Special Operations

Top 5 reasons to try out for Special Operations

A recent study published by the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is changing the way leaders look at recruiting for elite units within the military. It was previously believed that most service members tried out for the rigorous selection and training that most operators must endure to challenge themselves and serve their country at a […]

Watch: ‘100 Deadly Skills, Survival Edition’: Build a Tactical Nightstand

Watch: ‘100 Deadly Skills, Survival Edition’: Build a Tactical Nightstand

Picture this…You’ve put the kids to bed for the evening and after locking the front door and turning all the lights off you yourself go to bed. You are then awakened several hours later by a strange noise coming from downstairs. It sounds as if someone broke a window and are now attempting to breach […]

Navy to start training on new transgender policy by Nov 1st

Navy to start training on new transgender policy by Nov 1st

The US Navy recently published an all-Navy message, stating that the Navy will begin its training on the new transgender policy on November 1st. All training must be complete by July 2017. According to Military.com, In an all-Navy message published Tuesday, Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke said a three-pronged training approach will equip […]

SOCOM officer earns Soldier’s Medal for actions at Boston Marathon bombing

SOCOM officer earns Soldier’s Medal for actions at Boston Marathon bombing

Lt. Col. David P. Diamond, who provided aid to victims and assistance to Boston Police in the immediate aftermath of the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, has been awarded the Soldiers Medal for his actions that day. It was Sen. John McCain who pinned the medal on Diamond’s chest during a Capitol Hill ceremony […]

Comey warns of post-ISIL terrorist ‘diaspora’

Comey warns of post-ISIL terrorist ‘diaspora’

FBI Director James Comey warned Tuesday that the increasing success of the military campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq carries an ominous downside: a wave of terrorist fighters who will spread across the globe as the group loses control of its territory on the ground. “The so-called caliphate will be crushed. The […]

Ten reasons why San Clemente Island is the batsh*t craziest part of SEAL Training

Ten reasons why San Clemente Island is the batsh*t craziest part of SEAL Training

Out on America’s West Coast, just to the left of California about 60 miles, lies a 21-nautical-mile-long geographical wasteland known as San Clemente Island.  It makes up the southern tip of California’s Channel Islands, making it the metaphorical hell to the comparable heaven of Santa Catalina Island, which is located a bit to the northeast. […]

Analysis: Chengdu J-20, The Chinese Raptor?

Analysis: Chengdu J-20, The Chinese Raptor?

Nate “Buster” Jaros says China will have a fifth generation fighter, and its development of the J-20 (amongst other fifth gen platforms) is significant. If you haven’t been paying much attention to the jet fighter news, you may have missed something big. In fact, it doesn’t get a lot of press and over the past couple of years […]

14 cutting edge firms funded by the CIA

14 cutting edge firms funded by the CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency has its own investment capital arm, and it’s been pumping money into some of Silicon Valley’s most innovative companies for years. In-Q-Tel (named after “Q” in the James Bond films) invests in companies that can deliver useful technology to the intelligence community within 36 months. But since it’s structured as an independent, […]

The socialite spy who played so dumb she outsmarted the Nazis

The socialite spy who played so dumb she outsmarted the Nazis

If you’re going to have an obit in the New York Times, it would be hard have a more intriguing headline than this one from March 2000 : “Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 97, Socialite Turned Hunter and Prisoner of War,” unless they’d added, as they should have done, “Spy.” One might also have said she was spoiled and impetuous […]