The wet season in tropical Australia begins with tension. Physical tension, caused by the friction of earth and clouds. Mental tension, caused by the heat, and the expectation of rain and relief. It is also an ecological tension, where every plant ...
What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you hear the word cool? Explosions? Fighter jets? Ninjas? Magic? Catapults? Dungeons and Dragons? Throwing a paper ball into the trash on the first try? Everyone's answer will likely be a little ...
Dear Jack, I’m a few weeks away from separating from the military after eight years of service. Do you have any advice for me as I start my journey into civilian life? Thanks, Staff Sergeant Tony Scalapetti Hello, ...
Battlefield tactics and technologies evolve with each new war. Tools that are highly effective in one conflict may prove worthless in the next. Others endure, becoming fixtures in an army’s arsenal, and are improved over time. For the United States ...
Black Hawk Down, Ridley Scott’s blockbuster celebration of the modern American war machine, hit theaters just four months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The coincidental timing meant that the film premiered to audiences brimming with patriotism ...
HONOLULU — World War II veteran and ruthless card shark Walter McArthur could not believe his ears when a Carnival Cruise attendant informed him there were no strippers aboard the vessel as it began its 5,000-mile journey toward the coast of ...
In the early evening of Oct. 14, 1781, a force of approximately 800 American and French soldiers armed with muskets, bayonets, axes, and swords stood ready for battle on the outskirts of Yorktown, Virginia. Once the signal was given, they would ...
Ever since James Bond sported the iconic Rolex Submariner 6538 in 1962’s Dr. No, watches and espionage have been linked in the popular imagination. But classy, dependable timepieces aren’t just for fictional secret agents. In the military and ...
Hey Battle Buddy, Did a civilian just thank you for your service? That’s a damn shame, and I’m sorry that you are having this terribly awkward experience. But don’t worry, we’re here to help guide you through it. First, understand that when a ...
In January 1991, at the start of Operation Desert Storm, an eight-man British Special Air Service team under the call sign Bravo Two Zero was compromised while conducting a reconnaissance patrol north of Baghdad. As the infamous story goes, the ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Thursday that it is assembling a special team to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) — or, as it noted, “events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural ...
It’s been 78 years since Allied forces took to the skies and beaches of Normandy, France, in the first major step toward the liberation of Europe. In the nearly eight decades since that monumental undertaking, countless movies and television shows ...
Veterans are like penises. No two are the same. They come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and each possesses his own unique traits as a result of the trials and hardships he has endured. Some grew hard in the Marine Corps, some got a little soft in ...
Green Beret. Sniper. Combat veteran. Television star. Cop. Firefighter. Professional UFC fighter. These are just some of the many titles that apply to Tim Kennedy. And now, with the release of his new memoir, Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically ...
Last August the United States told Afghanistan that it was just heading to the store to pick up a pack of smokes. Then the US quickly loaded up only what it could fit in the back of its ’73 Ford Pinto, queued up the Allman Brothers, and left a ...
SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-MER, France — Walter Stowe never stood on Omaha Beach 78 years ago. He never felt the spray of seawater from the Baie de Seine, never heard the crack of German rifles, or the whomp of their deadly mortars striking sand the color of ...
The Arizona-based tech and weapons company Axon Enterprise announced plans on Thursday, June 2, to develop a new cutting-edge tool for the prevention of mass shootings: a drone armed with Axon’s signature Taser. That’s right — a flying stun ...
Disney’s new Obi-Wan Kenobi series has officially hit the halfway point, and one thing is kyber-crystal clear: Darth Vader is out for blood. Everyone’s favorite Force-choking villain is back with a vengeance. And yet apparently this version of Vader ...
The choppy waves and darkly clouded skies set an ominous tone for the throngs of Allied troops motoring toward Normandy on the morning of June 6, 1944. Hours earlier, American and British paratroopers had made landfall beyond the fortress of ...
CARENTAN, France — She wheeled under the trees, through the shady lanes, handing out cards to villagers, each sheet printed with a brief story about what her 101-year-old husband did here in Normandy 78 years ago. A radio operator in the 29th ...
Tom Rice’s landing in France this time around was a lot easier than his first trip. A water cannon sprayed a salute for Rice’s Boeing-767 jet instead of Germans firing tracers into the night sky. “I always jumped No. 1, and I was the last guy to ...
It seems as if there’s almost nothing coffee can’t do. In the United Kingdom, a stronghold of tea-drinking, coffee consumption is on the rise. But beyond just fueling London's commuters as they make their ways to work, coffee is also fueling their ...
The Military Reporters & Editors Association (MRE) announced the winners of its 2022 journalism contest on Thursday, June 2, recognizing journalists in 11 categories, with three honorable mentions. The recipients of this year’s awards come from a ...
The highly anticipated fourth season of Netflix’s smash hit Stranger Things is finally streaming, and fans are raving. Sitting at an impressive 91% fresh from both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, the latest installment of the nostalgic ...
Leo Krause estimated he’d been shot nearly 4,000 times over the course of his career. His business partner and fellow bullet magnet, Bernard Spooner, estimated he’d been fired upon nearly 2,000 times. In 1922, when the entrepreneurs first premiered ...
There’s a tragic moment in the final episode of We Own This City when Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter, played by Jamie Hector, makes the fateful choice to take his own life and stage it as a line-of-duty death. Suiter, shown momentarily hiding ...
Jodie Foster will star in the leading role of the next installment of the HBO anthology True Detective. The two-time Oscar-winning actress will play Detective Liz Danvers in the fourth season of the show, titled True Detective: Night ...
For Marine Corps veteran Amy Forsythe, Camp Pendleton always felt like home — a place from which she'd stepped off for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and to which she returned months later, exhausted and relieved to see the familiar hills, palm ...
It’s that time of the year again, my friends. It’s Memorial Day weekend. But I’m not talkin’ about the somber, reflective, and cathartic day of remembrance when one celebrates the lives and memories of those who gave all in our nation’s 245 years of ...
George R. Yohn, a World War II veteran who still lives in his hometown of Millerstown, Pennsylvania, never finished high school. He was still in high school when he was drafted. “I didn’t finish school because I was a little older, and they took ...
