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Alex Hollings

The CIA’s Classified ‘Skyhook’ Program

Batman made it look cool, but the real Skyhook riders were the kind of men who trusted a steel wire, a balloon, and a pilot’s nerve more than luck or legend.

Strength and Fitness: How to Keep Making Progress When Lifting Alone

Headphones in, lone-wolf mode on—no handshakes, no hype squad—just iron, intent, and the discipline to show up when everyone else ghosts.

The 5 Things You’re Doing Wrong in the Gym

Sometimes the hardest part of training isn’t pushing yourself through the pain, but knowing when to back off before you break.

The Founding of SOCOM: How America’s Special Operations Command Was Born of Tragedy

America’s special operations roots stretch back to ragtag patriots who fought dirty and thought fast—long before “unconventional warfare” became a buzzword and SOCOM had a command patch.

These Are the Elite Warfighting Units Throughout History That Inspired Modern American Special Operations

From Spartan warriors to Viking berserkers and stealthy ninjas, history’s most fearsome fighters laid the ideological and tactical groundwork for the elite special operations units we rely on today.

K-9s Against School Shooters? A Former Navy SEAL Thinks So

Joshua Morton’s highly trained, cloned K-9s aren’t just tools for sniffing out drugs—they’re fearless, four-legged warriors, prepared to charge headlong into gunfire to protect the lives of schoolchildren.

It’s Time We Stop Being Offended!

Stop being offended! Our discourse has grown more poisonous because we now take offense as a course of action in itself.

Normalcy Bias Can Make You Lose a Fight Before It Starts

Sometimes you just know something’s not right. You feel a twinge in the pit of your gut, and you start to notice things that you wouldn’t normally notice.

So Why Exactly Do You Need So Many Guns?

As the debate over guns continues to rage in this country, the social media conversation has been dominated by memes and strawman arguments.

Ghost Ship in the Sky: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Crew of the L-8

The vastness of the sea has created many ghost ships. And some, like the U.S. Navy’s L-8, are of the airborne variety.

3 Things You Didn’t Know About the F-22 Raptor

The F-22 Raptor is both a beauty and a technological marvel. Here are three things you might not know about it.

3 Things You Might Not Know About the F-15

The Mcdonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and its variants have served as America’s workhorse interceptor fighters for over 40 years.

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