Ethan E. Rocke is a senior editor for Coffee or Die. Born in Los Angeles and raised in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills, he is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning photographer and filmmaker in Portland, Oregon. He served as an infantryman with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, deploying once to Kosovo for peacekeeping operations. After leaving the Army, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps as a “storyteller of Marines,” serving in Okinawa and the Asia-Pacific region with III Marine Expeditionary Force and at the Marine Corps Motion Picture and Television Liaison Office in Los Angeles, where he served as a consultant on dozens of television shows and documentaries and several feature films. His work has been published in Maxim Magazine, American Legion Magazine and many others. He is co-author of “The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper’s True Account of the Battle of Ramadi.”
Before he completed an enlistment in the US Marine Corps, Maximilian Uriarte had already launched Terminal Lance — the wildly popular and often irreverent military comic strip about life as a Marine grunt. Since Uriarte’s comic debuted in 2010, ...
This article was originally published July 23, 2020, in The War Horse. “Aren’t you Ernie Pyle?” the man asked. He was an officer—a medic. He held his helmet at his side. Ernie looked up from his champagne cocktail in the basement bar of the ...
BARSTOW, Calif. — As part of the Commandant of the Marine Corps’ Force Design 2030, nearly 200 M1A1 Abrams Tanks, M-88 Recovery Vehicles, and Armored Vehicle Launched Bridges are moving through Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California ...
WASHINGTON -- Driven by a three-phase emergency response plan, the Army has contributed in every facet of the ongoing battle against COVID-19, the service’s top medical officer said Wednesday. The strategic approach centers on prevention, ...
This article was originally published July 30, 2020, on RadioFreeEurope RadioLiberty. A court in Moscow has sentenced former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed to nine years in prison after finding him guilty of assaulting two police officers, a charge that ...
Portland’s streets saw no violence and were relatively quiet Thursday — the 64th consecutive night of protests and the first night since federal agents agreed to cede their mission of protecting federal buildings in the city to Oregon State Police. ...
WASHINGTON, DC – Today the Secretary of the Army announced the five civilian experts who will lead the independent review of Fort Hood. “Thank you to the members of the panel who have agreed to take time from their lives to support our independent ...
This article was originally published July 18, 2020 on We Are The Mighty. Without a doubt, the most athletic President had to be Theodore Roosevelt. An avid boxer, wrestler, runner, and lover of all things outdoors, America's 26th President never ...
This article was originally published July 18, 2020, on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Six years ago, Dutch intelligence agents reportedly infiltrated a malicious group of hackers working out of an office building not far from the Kremlin. Dutch ...
This article was originally published July 13, 2020, on Army.mil. FORT KNOX, Ky. — A line formed inside the Fort Knox Military Clothing Sales store July 8 as several recruiting students anticipated being the first to be issued the Army’s newest ...
In the wake of several questionable arrests and violent tactics by federal agents during ongoing protests in Portland, both of Oregon’s U.S. senators and the two House members who represent Portland sent a letter Friday to U.S. Attorney General ...
ARLINGTON, Va. — The head of U.S. Northern Command’s land forces spoke Tuesday of the lessons learned from its ongoing battle against COVID-19, as the command prepares to send more troops to hotspots in Texas and California. At the height of its ...
The project started with a conversation over beers about a difficult topic: suicide. It was 2011, and Zach Iscol was catching up with his former commanding officer, retired U.S. Marine Colonel Willard "Willie" Buhl, when the conversation turned ...
This article was originally published Dec. 4, 2019 on The War Horse. Yemen is a nation at war with itself. And for nearly four years, the United States has gotten sucked into the battle, along with other powerful nations like Saudi Arabia and ...
On July 9, a female National Guard soldier became the first woman to graduate from U.S. Army Special Forces training since Capt. Katie Wilder did so in 1980, earning the coveted Green Beret. The woman, whose identity the Army is withholding for ...
The USS Indianapolis (LCS 17) is one of the U.S. Navy’s new Freedom Class littoral combat ships. Commissioned last fall, the ship’s motto, “Legacy of War,” reflects that ships named Indianapolis have served in World War I, World War II, and the Cold ...
This article was originally published July 13, 2020, on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A major Taliban attack on the offices of Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency has killed at least 11 security personnel and wounded dozens of others, ...
This article was originally published on We Are The Mighty July 10, 2020. The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is widely considered to be the best unit of its kind in the world. Known to recruit only the best pilots the US Army has to ...
If you were watching Super Bowl LIII, you were probably very interested in the commercials, because the game sure wasn't of much interest. Maybe you saw an ad for Zaxby's chicken featuring former NFL center Jeff Saturday and MLB legend Rick ...
Recently declassified documents revealed that the Department of Defense knew thousands of U.S. service members who deployed to a former Soviet air base in southeastern Uzbekistan in the early years of the war on terror were exposed to hazardous ...
By 1967, the United States was firmly committed to the war in Vietnam. That year saw 485,600 American troops in country. That's like arming the entire population of Kansas City and moving them into another country. So yeah, they were ...
Vietnam was a terrible war. But — as is so often the case in war — beautiful art and literature emerged from the hellfire, death, and wreckage. So goes the old Catch-22 of the human experience: No pleasure without pain. No yin without yang. Great ...
This article was originally published July 8 by We Are the Mighty. Götz von Berlichingen was known for a lot of things. The most obvious was that he lost an arm to cannon fire in the heat of battle. Unfortunately for him, it was his right arm, ...
It is common knowledge that nearly all Marine Corps duty stations are next to the ocean, and that surfing comes with the territory. With surfing comes a community strengthened by a shared desire to be mentally, emotionally, and physically strong, ...
had seen the Fox News report June 10: “Seattle helpless as armed guards patrol anarchists’ ‘autonomous zone,’ shake down businesses.” Above the headline, superimposed on a banner image of a protester running past burning cars and buildings, was the ...
The USO will air its first-ever virtual Fourth of July Concert Special at 12 AM and 12 PM EDT on Independence Day. The special will feature country music icon Clint Black and a variety of USO tour veterans and celebrities who will perform and share ...
The Department of Defense recently prohibited the use of hemp oil and CBD products for all active-duty and reserve military members. CBD, or cannabidiol, is marijuana’s second most prevalent chemical compound and is frequently used for medicinal ...
Major leadership failures contributed to the deaths of 76 veterans as a COVID-19 infection spread like wildfire through the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts, according to an independent investigation ordered by Gov. Charlie Baker. “Some of ...
Protesters tried to tear down a statue of former President Andrew Jackson and establish a “Black House Autonomous Zone” (BHAZ) a block from the White House in Lafayette Park Monday night. The crowd smashed wooden wheels of replica cannons ...
A week before massive protests and civil unrest spread across the United States, Madisen Hallberg, a graduating senior at Portland State University, recorded a special rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner for her college’s virtual commencement ...
