US Marines To Accept Chubbier Women

In an effort to maintain the new status quo of cutting standards everywhere in the name of equality and “progress”, the Marine Corps announced major changes over the Fourth of July holiday weekend regarding how much it will allow service members to weigh, and the biggest shift comes for women: going forward “larger” ladies will […]

The Conversation About War and Our Veterans We Refuse to Have

“You can shoot her…” the First Sergeant tells me. “Technically.” We’re standing on a rooftop watching black smoke pillars rise from a section of the city where two of my teammates are taking machine gun fire. Below, the small cluster of homes we’ve taken over is taking sporadic fire as well. He hands me his […]

House Drops Plans to Make Women Register for Selective Service – The Draft

Women may not have to register for the draft after all, if House Republicans get their way. Republican members of the House Rules Committee during a late Monday meeting stripped provisions from the annual defense authorization bill that would have required women to register for the Selective Service System. The controversial provision narrowly passed the […]

House Panel Votes to Make Women Register for Selective Service – the Draft

Women will have to register with the Selective Service and would be eligible to be drafted in the military, under a provision narrowly approved by a House panel on Wednesday. The proposal passed the House Armed Services Committee without support from its sponsor, Iraq War veteran Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., who introduced the measure as […]

Integration of Women in SOF Units

In December 2015 Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that all military training, occupations, and units will be open to women to include those found within the special operations forces. (1). Early in 2015 female volunteers were selected to attend the Army’s Ranger School. The first class started in April 2015 with 19 female students. […]

Unintended Consequences of Women in Combat Roles

Allowing women into combat roles within all branches of the U.S. military is certain to happen at this point following the announcement of Defense Secretary Ash Carter in December 2015. Carter expounded on his new policy to incorporate women into their new roles, “This means that as long as they qualify and meet the standards, […]

Understanding the Lure of Young People to Join ISIS

What is the appeal about joining an Islamic extremist organization such as ISIS or al Qaida if you live outside of the Middle East? Friends and family members of those that travel to Syria and other Middle Eastern nations to train with ISIS or al Qaida seems shocked that their family member would be capable of […]