This article was originally published on Military.com May 19, 2022. Follow Military.com on Twitter. A Louisiana Army National Guard officer retired in March with benefits after being convicted of assault and conduct unbecoming an officer for ...
Massacre in Buffalo Points to Rise in Racially Motivated Mass Shootings
An apparently racially motivated attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, resulted in 10 deaths on May 14, 2022, with the teenage suspect allegedly targeting Black shoppers in a prominently African American neighborhood. Mass public shootings ...
Navy Lieutenant Awarded Bronze Star for Covert Extraction in Kabul Evacuation
This article was originally published May 10, 2022, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. A junior Navy Reserve officer and Senate staffer has gotten congressional accolades and a military honor for her role in a low-profile rescue ...
Biden Can’t Sell Yachts of Russian Oligarchs and Give the Money to Ukraine
The Biden administration wants to sell off the yachts, homes and other luxury assets it has seized from Russian oligarchs and use those proceeds to support reparations for Ukraine. As part of his proposal for the latest aid package to Ukraine, ...
Remembering the Mafia’s Worst Enemy, Letizia Battaglia
When Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia passed away on April 13, 2022, the biggest shock among those of us who have written about her was that she didn’t die at the hands of the Mafia. For nearly five decades she fearlessly fought the criminal ...
How Hypersonic Weapons Could Rescue the Navy’s Stealth Destroyer
This article was originally published April 28, 2022, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. The Navy’s hulking, geometric Zumwalt-class destroyers have been without a clear mission or a main gun – a technological feat that ...
Why Are Scientists Trying to Give Earth’s Address to Space Aliens?
If a person is lost in the wilderness, they have two options. They can search for civilization, or they could make themselves easy to spot by building a fire or writing HELP in big letters. For scientists interested in the question of whether ...
Why Ukraine Wants Russian Troops to Suffer Subterranean Combat
Faced with the prospect of sending Russian troops into subterranean combat, Vladimir Putin demurred. “There is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground,” he told his defense minister on April 21, 2022, ordering him to cancel a ...
How Spam Became 1 of America’s Greatest Business Success Stories
While you might think of Spam as a basic canned meat, it’s actually one of the greatest business success stories of all time: Since Hormel Foods Corporation launched the affordable, canned pork product in 1937, it’s sold over eight billion cans in 44 ...
Meet Clark ‘Doc’ Savage, America’s Superhero Savior to Humanity
His name is Clark and his father (later murdered) raised him to be a savior to humanity. He possesses superhuman strength and finely tuned senses. He is the world’s greatest detective, an inventor, chemist, surgeon and martial artist. Villains the ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin Is Weaponizing His Gas. Will that Backfire?
In December 2006, The Economist magazine published a cover drawing of Russian president Vladimir Putin, dressed like a 1930s gangster in a dark suit and fedora hat, under the headline “Don’t Mess with Russia.” Putin held a gasoline nozzle, gripping ...
Four Reasons Why Putin Wants to Drag Moldova and Transnistria into War
There is growing concern that Moldova and Transnistria could be dragged into Russia’s war against Ukraine. Both Transnistria and Moldova are directly west of Ukraine. Transnistria, a small, breakaway region of Moldova, is sandwiched between ...
Harriet Tubman: Spy, Nurse, First US Woman to Command Military Raid
Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white abolitionists determined to end slavery in America. “I ...
Why Dwight D Eisenhower Ordered the Red Ball Express to Beat the Nazis
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had a problem. In June 1944, Allied forces had landed on Normandy Beach in France and were moving east toward Nazi Germany at a clip of sometimes 75 miles (121 kilometers) per day. With most of the French rail system in ...
Battered by Sanctions, Putin’s Russia Poised to Default on Foreign Debt
Russia may be on the cusp of its first default on its foreign debt since the Bolsheviks ousted Czar Nicholas II a century ago. On April 14, 2022, Moody’s Investors Service warned the country’s decision to make payments on dollar-issued debt in ...
Don’t Believe Crime Shows! Criminal Psychopaths Can Be Treated
On any given day, millions of Americans curl up to watch their favorite crime shows. Whether it is “FBI” on CBS, “Dexter” on Showtime, “Mindhunter” on Netflix, “Killing Eve” on BBC, reruns of “Law & Order,” or any of a myriad of other similar ...
Sailor With Diagnosed Mental Health Issues Says He’s Being Targeted for Seeking Help
This article was originally published on Military.com April 11, 2022. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Jatzael Alvarado Perez began struggling with life aboard the destroyer USS Farragut last year. The ship was in the process of getting ready to ...
How World War I Contributed to Ireland’s Easter Rising
We are currently in the midst of Ireland’s “Decade of Centenaries”, a period which commemorates the Third Home Rule Bill, World War I, the Easter Rising, the Irish War of Independence, partition and creation of the Northern Ireland state, and the ...
The Last Time Russia’s Economy Sank, It Sold its Ships for Soda
This article was originally published March 4, 2022, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. Just before the fall of the Soviet Union, the communist state was so desperate for Pepsi that they traded the American beverage company some ...
Biting the Heads Off Chocolate Hares: Our Weird History of the Easter Bunny
While you’re biting the heads off your chocolate bunnies this weekend, you might wonder how cartoon rabbits became so central to our Easter celebrations. It’s tempting to assume that because there’s no biblical basis for the Easter Bunny, rabbits and ...
This Russian General is Now in Charge of the War in Ukraine
This article was originally published April 11, 2022, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. Almost two months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military finally appointed a general to oversee the whole war ...
11 Steps To Turn a Puppy Into a Badass Military Working Dog
Military working dogs are among the world’s most elite four legged warriors. Serving side by side with U.S. troops since World War II these brave animals have saved thousands of lives and earned their stripes by performing as critical military ...
Zero Milestone: Ike, World War I, and the American Century of Oil
On July 7, 1919, a group of U.S. military members dedicated Zero Milestone – the point from which all road distances in the country would be measured – just south of the White House lawn in Washington, D.C. The next morning, they helped to define the ...
US Military Depended on Foreign Weapons During World War I
On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war against Germany and entered World War I. Since August 1914, the war between the Central and Entente Powers had devolved into a bloody stalemate, particularly on the Western Front. That was where the ...
That Time A Sailor Screwed Edison Out of Creating The First Tattoo Machine
Though Thomas Edison is known for giving the world a number of fantastic inventions, you’ll always see an asterisk next to patents for which he’s credited. Sure, the history books give him praise for inventing the phonograph and the incandescent ...
When Players Collaborated with Gamblers to Throw the World Series
Imagine if, after watching the thrilling victory of the Chicago Cubs in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series over the Cleveland Indians – a game in which the Cubs won their first championship in over a century – you learned that the Indians had ...
America’s Love Affair with the Plastic Pink Flamingo
In 1957, a 21-year-old art school graduate named Don Featherstone created his second major design for the Massachusetts-based lawn and garden decoration manufacturer Union Products: a three-dimensional plastic pink flamingo propped up by two thin, ...
Hell at Abbey Gate: Chaos, Confusion and Death in the Final Days of the War in Afghanistan
This story was originally published by ProPublica with partner Alive in Afghanistan on April 2, 2022. On the afternoon of Aug. 26, 17-year-old Shabir Ahmad Mohammadi huddled with his family by a mosque near the Kabul airport. It was one of the ...
Canadian Sniper ‘Wali’ Hilariously Trolls Russians by Posing With Their Rations
The war in Ukraine has attracted many foreigners to join the fight against Russia. One notable fighter is a Canadian who goes by the war nickname ‘Wali,’ which means “protector” or “guardian” in Arabic. He previously served in Kandahar Province, ...
The Navy Wants To Decommission 24 Ships — Are Plans for a Mega-Fleet Dead?
This article was originally published April 3, 2022, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. In 2016, the U.S. Navy announced that it needed 355 manned ships by around 2050 to execute mission requirements around the globe – up from ...