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I knew that they were being recalled during the deployment, but I didn’t know that prisoners were making them with homemade tools that resembled prison shanks and hatchets.
Twitter Inc. has shut down 360,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts since the middle of 2015, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The microblogging platform has previously come under fire from Washington and third-party groups for not doing enough to stop accounts linked to Islamic State militants. But, since February, it […]
Four years after a former Navy SEAL was threatened with prison for writing about the guy Osama bin Laden raid, the Pentagon has dropped its claim that Matt Bissonnette revealed secrets harmful to national security. Bissonnette, who wrote No Easy Day under the pen name “Mark Owen,” will have to forfeit more than $6.7 million in book […]
Phil talks about the significance of going on his first operation once he made it out of SAS selection and joined the regiment.
He maintained steady hit and run tactics on the Iraqi Army with and without his tank while working with Bedouin and varied anti-Saddam militias in Southern Iraq.
Former U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program physician Col. David Haight had no idea of the essential role he would play during the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympic Games. Haight, a physician currently serving as the chief of family medicine and primary care sports medicine director at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base […]
Former Navy SEAL Clint Emerson has written “100 Deadly Skills, Survival Edition.” Here is an excerpt that focuses on surviving an ambush or an active-shooter situation.
The U.S. transferred 15 Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United Arab Emirates on Monday, the largest such movement yet in President Barack Obama’s push to remove most prisoners from the offshore prison before he leaves office in January. The transfer of 12 Yemenis and three Afghans from the Cuba facility to the U.A.E. leaves 61 detainees, a significant […]
Military authors (especially SOF) and the publishing of their personal accounts and experiences have been widely debated over the past several years. However, as long as their confidentiality agreements are honored, combat veterans have the right to freedom of speech under the U.S. Constitution.
We have our own experiences, we have advice from family and friends, then some of us have The Monster and the Field Tradecraft Course. Whatever works.
This truck stop is a petrie dish of all seething and unclean things the city brings to bear. It is constantly rife with the nation’s nomadic gypsy trash wandering in, and staggering out. I would say the top five most most detestable things I have seen in my civilian life were perceived at that truck stop.
Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Richmond just missed making the finals with a seventh-place finish, and five-time Olympian Sgt. 1st Class Glenn Eller finished 14th in men’s double trap on Wednesday, Aug. 10, at the 2016 Olympic Games. Richmond missed his 12th target in a three-way shoot-off for the last spot in the finals, while Eller […]
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Have you ever tried to wear a fleece hoodie in bad weather? We don’t recommend it. That’s why we founded BÆRSkin in 2019 – to create the world’s best outdoor gear that’s just as comfortable at home as it is durable outdoors. “Bad fitting, bulky, and boring” is how we felt about 1000’s of regular fleece hoodies we tested.
If you’re 21 or older and use nicotine or tobacco, charge ahead with Black Buffalo, America’s only credible smokeless tobacco alternative. Black Buffalo dips just like the real thing without the tobacco leaf or stem. Find Black Buffalo in Wawa, Circle K, Sheetz, Love’s, Pilot, Racetrac, and many more retail locations across the United States.
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Our roots in shooting sports started off back in 1996 with our founder and CEO, Josh Ungier. His love of airguns took hold of our company from day one and we became the first e-commerce retailer dedicated to airguns, optics, ammo, and accessories. Over the next 25 years, customers turned to us for our unmatched product selection, great advice, education, and continued support of the sport and airgun industry.
