SOFIC: Robots, rappelling, rifles, and Special Ops gadgetry

The SOFIC Conference is over and the turnout, especially on Tuesday, was heavy. The conference is a fantastic display of weapons, equipment and nice to have gadgets for the Special Operations Forces on not just the United States but others as well. While it is billed as a gathering for US personnel, there was a […]

Citadel ROTC Cadet Presented Award By Last Living SC Member of 1st Special Service Force

During an awards presentation for Citadel cadets, Cadet First Sergeant Neal Bultman, a senior political science major from Walker Michigan received the MG Robert T. Frederick Leadership Award. He attends the college on an ROTC scholarship. The Citadel sends about a third of its graduates every year to the armed services as commissioned officers after […]

“Will You Give Us Our Whisky Now?”

On the bloodiest day of battle in American history, the Battle of Antietam, also known as the battle of Sharpsburg in September 1862 was the first major battle fought on Northern soil. The armies of Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off in a see-saw battle that saw a combined 22,000 casualties in one […]

Watch: Marine veterans recreate WWII challenges with a live-fire range

Serving in the military instills a real sense of pride in many veterans. It’s not just the things you accomplished or the good you did while in uniform, but the understanding that you helped carry a torch passed to you by the previous generation. Your uniform, your title, even many of the challenges you face can […]

Christmas: A holiday for warriors throughout history

Every year, we hear the same Christmas-based arguments around the water cooler and in the media. Christians tell us we’re celebrating the day Jesus Christ was born, while others tell us Christmas is a pagan holiday adopted by early Christians as a time to celebrate. The truth of the matter is, Christmas celebrations can be […]

The Nazino Affair: Russia’s Cannibal Island

Russia is a vast nation, with huge expanses of undeveloped land in parts of the country that are generally considered to be difficult or impossible to cultivate.  Soviet leaders were not unaware of the possible untapped potential this uninhabited land presented, so in 1933, Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the Russian secret police and Matvei […]

Thanksgiving has always been whatever America needed it to be

At this point, most of us know the story of Thanksgiving that we’re taught in grade school isn’t exactly accurate.  Pilgrims and Native Americans probably didn’t share a turkey across a picnic table and because European supplies were all but exhausted by the time the festival began (a festival in which few Pilgrims would likely […]

US Military readiness: Marching toward Cannae

The United States military is arguably the most formidable fighting force ever assembled in the history of the world.  However, since the beginning of the war on terrorism and specifically over the past eight years of this Administration, it has increasingly drifted away from its core mission of defending our nation and more towards nation-building, […]

Dirty politics: How we measure up to presidential campaigns of the past

The campaigns leading up to yesterday’s presidential election will certainly be remembered as being among the most controversial and divisive in American history. Partisan politics, name-calling, accusations of corruption, and drudging up unflattering bits of each candidate’s past all took center stage in this election. Regardless of who you decided to vote for, or who […]