Marine Corps Jungle Warfare Gear

The Marine Corps Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa Japan had to be one of my favorite deployments. Learning how to operate and survive in a jungle environment is vastly different than a desert or woodland environment. There are also threats native to the jungle that you must be aware of. I remember attending a […]

Marine who received Medal of Honor for bravery in Vietnam dies

Medal of Honor recipient Richard Pittman, who traded his rifle for a machine gun to save many of his fellow Marines, has died at the age of 71. “We mourn the loss of an American hero,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said on Tuesday. “Master Gunnery Sergeant Richard Pittman’s commitment to the country and his fellow Marines […]

Watch: Is this what getting PTSD sounds like? Marines during a mortar attack

“Relax dude, or someone is going to think your fucking hurt.”

Welcome to war, bad guys will try to kill you. A recording of US Marines taking cover in their deployment barracks as an indirect fire, mortar attack is underway. This is quite possibly what the PTSD sounds like, or simply the sound of an FNG shitting himself.

Returning home after volunteering with Kurdish Forces

“War is a drug” – Chris Hedges These are just some of my personal experiences and I’m sure it’s different for everyone. It probably comes across like many men and woman’s experiences returning home from a deployment but in others I’m sure it isn’t; from cultural change extremes to sheer speed at which I was back in […]

The countermeasure ‘force field’, Congressional Research Service; APS still too unreliable for U.S. Military

Active Protection Systems considered too likely to cause collateral damage as well as not survive jamming, high number of targets and clutter(particularly in the urban environment). They are also judged to cause too much of an increase in the tank’s electronic signature. Additional costs and redesigns to provide power, space and cooling for APS systems greatly complicate implementation on platforms not designed for them.

Q&A with Ken Marlin, author of ‘The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street’

SOFREP recently interviewed Ken Marlin on his new book “The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street.” This book gives you a different perspective of Wall Street and offers you 11 principles that are applicable to your life even if you are not an investment banker. 1)     Why did you choose to transition from an […]

Update: USMC Identifies F-18C Pilot From Thursday Fatal Crash

The USMC has released the pilot’s name from Thursday’s single F-18C fatal crash.  The pilot was stationed at MCAS Miramar and flew with the Red Devils of VMFA-232. The 3rd Marine Air Wing has released the name of the pilot killed. Major Richard Norton, USMC was killed in a single plane F-18C crash late Thursday night.  The […]

Marine vet, 81, held hostage in motel room for 4 years, police reveal

Perry Coniglio was arrested Tuesday in his room adjoining the victim’s at a motel in Highlands. The motel sits next door to the police station in the Hudson Valley town, about 50 miles north of New York City. Coniglio, 43, used brute force and intimidation to get the mentally diminished veteran to cooperate with him, […]