A Marine without legs and eyes but with a determination to motivate others

THE STORY OF CPL MATTHEW R. BRADFORD, USMC (RET) We all raised our right hands and swore an oath to our country for different reasons. By taking that oath we all chose service, and understood, at least partially, the potential dangers and sacrifices that come with serving. But when you’ve sacrificed your legs and your […]

Watch: The ripples of blast waves

It was the end of my first deployment, and we had a certain number of materials that we needed to get rid of — among those materials were several types of explosives. We built a charge (an explosive) that would undoubtedly take care of every last piece of those materials, and we walked back two […]

The basics of blast TBIs

Sgt. Zachary Mayne, former team leader of 3rd Ranger Battalion, has suffered two separate combat traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) during his deployments to Afghanistan. In an interview with SOFREP, he said that, …my second blast TBI definitely shifted my views on the whole issue. I only had headaches for a few days from the first, […]

Pentagon: Blast kills US service member outside Mosul

BAGHDAD — A U.S. servicemember in Iraq was killed Saturday by an explosive device outside Mosul, according to a statement released by the Pentagon. The Pentagon said the servicemember died from wounds sustained in an “explosive device blast,” stating further information would be released as appropriate. Saturday’s incident marks the second American military fatality since […]

Baghdad blasts kill 29 as Mosul fighting intensifies

Three bombs killed 29 people in Baghdad on Saturday as fighting intensified in the northern city of Mosul, where Iraqi government forces are trying to rout Islamic State militants from their last major stronghold in the country. Blasts, including one suicide attack, tore through a busy market in the Sinak neighborhood, police said. A pro-Islamic […]

How did a nuclear warhead end up lying in a ditch in Arkansas?

 The Damascus incident isn’t the only accident recounted in the movie, or the most frightening. In 1961 a nuclear-armed bomber broke apart over Goldsboro, North Carolina. One of the bombs was saved from going off by a single safety switch, of the kind you use to turn your lights on and off. And then there were the false alarms that almost led the United States or the Soviet Union to launch an all-out nuclear attack. In researching his book, Schlosser obtained a never-before released government assessment that revealed that between 1950 and 1968 alone there had been over 1,000 accidents, large and small, involving nuclear weapons.

Massive Blast Rips Through Tianjin, China

Twin blasts lit up the night in Tianjin, China killing at least fifty people and injuring hundreds.  The cause of the explosion is not known at this time, but the two blasts were measured at 2.3 and 2.9 on the Richter scale.  Check out the New York Times for some interesting imagery analysis of the […]