Born in Los Angeles and raised in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills, Ethan is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning photographer and filmmaker. He served as an infantryman with the 101st Airborne Division, deploying once to Kosovo for peacekeeping operations. After leaving the Army, he joined the US 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.”
After lawmakers in the US Senate last week dropped a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that would have allowed the banking industry to do business with licensed marijuana retailers, US Navy veteran Seth Smith felt the weight of the ...
The day after Gen. Colin Powell died at 84, I was eating chili at a dingy bar in Austin, Texas, when a haggard, middle-aged waiter appeared over my shoulder, inquiring to the Willie Nelson look-alike behind the bar, “Did Colin Powell die?” Willie ...
Under an overcast sky on an urban warfare range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, a shooter waits for an instructor’s signal. “Let’s go!” the instructor shouts, sprinting toward a nearby building and quickly up a flight ...
Former British Special Air Service soldier Ben Timberlake is a bit of a degenerate. Fortunately, he’s much more than just a degenerate. Perhaps most importantly for our purposes here, Timberlake is a helluva writer, and he certainly appears to ...
Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, the soldier who died of wounds suffered while pulling seven men from a burning vehicle in Iraq in 2005, is poised to finally receive the Medal of Honor and become the first Black recipient of the medal since the Vietnam ...
Every April, many Americans join energy cooperatives and utilities across the US in celebrating National Lineworker Appreciation Day. Roughly 114,930 lineworkers work around the clock to keep 328 million Americans connected to energy, and there is ...
“When you get good at doing hard things, it makes life a lot more rewarding.” That’s the idea upon which former Green Beret Jason McCarthy built GORUCK, the business that began as a startup backpack company at the height of the 2008 financial ...
The Afghan National Army is looking for a few good men. You may have heard that the US is, once again, playing the "should I stay or should I go" game in Afghanistan, so the ANA has an urgent need to fill its ranks and beef up its forces — perhaps ...
In a small ceremony aboard Camp Pendleton, 10 Reconnaissance Marines made history Friday, becoming the first graduates of the Marine Corps’ new Reconnaissance Sniper Course (RSC) and earning the title Recon Sniper. Marine leaders at Camp ...
The commanding officer of the California-based Marine expeditionary unit that suffered the deaths of nine members during an amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) training mishap last summer was removed from his post Tuesday, Marine officials announced in ...
"My mother was a patriot. She was proud to have served in the Marines," Stephanie Gilliard-Sheard says in an interview, describing Sgt. Annie Graham, the first African American woman in the Marine Corps. "She was courageous to decide to go and do ...
Considered the most advanced attack helicopter in the Army’s arsenal, the AH-64 Apache has racked up 4.2 million flight hours and counting since Boeing delivered the aircraft in 1984. “This is the most survivable safest aircraft in the Army’s ...
Yesterday, Coffee or Die Magazine broke the story that the Marines have developed a new course to train snipers for the Corps’ elite Reconnaissance units. That means we can now reveal that Coffee or Die staffers have been embedded with the Marines ...
Marines in the service’s elite Reconnaissance community have developed a new training course to develop snipers for the Corps’ Reconnaissance units, Coffee or Die Magazine has learned. “Recon Marines understand the importance of being a sniper and ...
As I leaned in to shake retired Col. Dave E. Severance’s hand, the small white shapes polka-dotting his navy-blue tie came into clear relief as the iconic image of Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima. When we met in 2002, Severance was in ...
It was around dawn on Feb. 19, 2012, when the phone rang in an apartment in Oceanside, California, rousting retired Marine Maj. James Capers Jr. from a deep sleep. Capers looked for the sound, his 73-year-old brain still soaked ...
“Bullets don’t have no color,” says Master Gunnery Sgt. John Spencer, recalling the history of the Black Marines who blazed a path toward equal treatment long before President Harry Truman desegregated the US military in 1948. Spencer is one of ...
Last week, I traveled to Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego to document the arrival and start of recruit training for the first platoon of female recruits ever to train at the West Coast installation. In a way, the assignment was a homecoming. I ...
Around 2:30 p.m. Friday, the women of Platoon 3241, Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, moved into their squad bay aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego and met their drill instructors for the first time. The recruits of Platoon ...
In a historic first for the Marine Corps, 60 female recruits stepped off buses and onto the iconic yellow footprints alongside hundreds of male recruits in front of the receiving barracks at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on Tuesday. The ...
Kevin “Dauber” Lacz was a new-guy Navy SEAL sniper on his first deployment to Iraq when he served alongside Chris Kyle as one of the infamous "Punishers" of Cadillac Platoon, Task Unit Bruiser, in the 2006 Battle of Ramadi. Kyle, whose teammates in ...
On Thursday, the Camp Lejeune-based 8th Marine Regiment became the latest Marine Corps unit to case its colors and deactivate. The 2nd Marine Division unit joined a still-growing list of Marine units that have been deactivated as part of Marine ...
United States Marine Corps Scout Snipers are legendary for their tactical proficiency, physical and mental toughness, and extraordinary abilities as reconnaissance and surveillance professionals and force multipliers on the battlefield. Unlike ...
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday overturning the Trump administration's ban on transgender individuals serving in the military. The executive order immediately prohibits discharges and denials of reenlistment or continuation of ...
Some American veterans can receive the COVID-19 vaccine even if they don’t qualify under one of the high-risk or priority categories, according to Veterans Health Administration officials. In light of certain constraints of the available vaccines, ...
Marine Corps scout snipers are legendary for their tactical proficiency, physical and mental toughness, and extraordinary abilities as reconnaissance and surveillance professionals and force multipliers on the battlefield. Intelligence, extreme ...
When a mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol building Jan. 6, conservative hip-hop artists Christopher “Topher” Townsend and The Marine Rapper (TMR) were a mile away on stage at a Veterans for Trump rally, ...
The more than 25,000 National Guard soldiers that have deployed to Washington, DC, to bolster security for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony Wednesday are operating under stringent rules for the use of force. Coffee or Die Magazine ...
After a mob of rioters dragged him out of the west front entrance and onto the steps of the US Capitol building Jan. 6, DC Police Officer Mike Fanone thought he was going to die. As the angry crowd of President Donald Trump’s supporters dragged ...
On Wednesday — the same day the House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump for the second time, the president put out a video message via the White House’s official Twitter account, condemning the violent attack on the Capitol and ...
