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The Close Combat Lethality Task Force is the mechanism by which the Warrior Monk SECDEF Mattis and Advisory Board Chairman Gen. Scales want to revolutionize the infantry, increasing lethality and survivability. Breach-Bang-Clear Time for Better Tech, Better...
Any number of OIF/OEF war bloggers and memoir writers have written about the misery and tedium of their service, the desolate mind-numbing hours of boredom, fatigue, and discomfort punctuated by short bursts of adrenaline, fear, and often exhilaration (or sometimes...
Russian grunts digging in at Khost: this scene will be familiar to many of you. It’s from a Russian movie called The 9th Company.
Merrill, Hernandez, and Reeder had a meeting a couple days ago, discussing what sort of stories we wanted to do in the future, how best to open up the site to new contributors from our readership, etc. Everything was going great until time came to figure out who was...
Today we’re going to tell you about a guy whose balls were so big that, when he walked down the street the townsfolk thought the church bells were ringing: Medal of Honor recipient 1SG Leonard A. Funk.
I recently had the opportunity to ride along as a photographer with the Texas Army National Guard's 143rd Airborne Battalion. I met the unit at a hangar and watched as the paratroopers prepped for a jump. I have friends in the 143rd and served in Afghanistan with...
Alvin C. York was an all-American badass. He had a bucket of balls and a backbone like a boss. Read up. It’s…well, not your typical biopic.
Friederich Steuben (1730-1794) wrote of what he described as the ‘American spirit.’ Emerson called hthis icon, the “embattled farmer” who left his home to fight the Redcoats. It’s a big part of Revolutionary War lore.
After action reports (AARs) are a Good Thing if you pay attention and learn from ’em. Here’s one from a Rhodie ambush during the Bush War.
"This is 'The Greatest Generation' of soldiers. They may never be equaled." That was the closing sentence of an article published some time ago by a French newspaper, an article that was recently run and dissected by the guys at Warrior Lodge. Written by a French ISAF...
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