Tag: military

As the world moves on, Ukraine fights on as clashes in the east continue between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatists. This year the nation has seen a surprising number of assassinations and attempts on prominent figures as well. Despite the proclaimed cease fires, the war still rages and both sides receive and hand out […]

I was shivering uncontrollably. My thin warm weather rip-stop Crye multicams did little to ward off the December chill in Northeastern Washington. It was 2030 hours, well past civil twilight this far north and it had been dark for four hours by this point. We’d been evading by moon and starlight and had settled into […]

Some women in Indonesia who aspire to join the police or military forces there must first submit to what Human Rights Watch described as “degrading and discriminatory” so-called “virginity tests,” HRW reported today. According to HRW, “the testing includes the invasive ‘two-finger test’ to determine whether female applicants’ hymens are intact, findings that are scientifically baseless.” HRW […]

A former soldier says life as a woman in the world’s fourth-largest army was so tough that most soon stopped menstruating. And rape, she says, was a fact of life for many of those she served with. For almost 10 years Lee So Yeon slept on the bottom bunk bed, in a room she shared […]

You wake up at 8 a.m. You get ready for work, you grip the steering wheel and yawn into your coffee cup. You shuffle through papers at your desk and you look out the window at the world shuffling through people on the sidewalk. You come home and maybe there’s food waiting for you, maybe […]

Bremont was formed in 2002 by brothers Nick and Giles English. Their first watches appeared on the market in 2007. In the relatively short amount of time since then, Bremont has become one of the premier watch brands for military units across the globe. Initially popularized in part by Bear Grylls who wore a Bremont […]

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The Lum-Tec Combat B37 was my first foray into a watch using only the 24-hour format, and it did not disappoint.  It is a simple but classy timepiece that has a subtle ruggedness to it. The B37 is limited to only 200 available for worldwide sale (each has a unique number on the case back), […]

The EU has long been dependent on the United States’ support in military affairs. Now, 23 armies of the European Union are coming together to form a unified front, joining their militaries in several different ways: financially, with tech and weapons development, and the mechanisms through which they deploy their forces. The member states are expected […]

America’s military has a serious problem with a two-tiered justice system that destroys lance corporals and pardons the gross misconduct of general officers.  One doesn’t need to look any further than the Marine Corps for a long history of this. A fine example is General James “Hoss” Cartwright, a no-combat four star F-18 pilot that […]

Grey Ghost Gear (GGG) is one part of the strategic triumvirate that also features Grey Ghost Precision (GGP) and Tactical Tailor.  While GGP deals in lead-slinging hardware and Tactical Tailor knocks out mind-boggling amounts of gear tailor-made for warfighters, GGG has a somewhat smaller scope.  To me, the result of this  focus is GGG having an even greater level of […]

“The Rohingya have gone out of the frying pan and into the fire,” one aid worker said as they headed into the refugee camps on Wednesday.  He said that back in 2015, and they were driving toward a camp with a translator, having gone through multiple security checkpoints, when two men on a motorcycle cut […]