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.”
Move over, one-and-done AT4 launcher. The new and improved 84mm M3E1 Carl Gustaf Multi-Role Anti-Armor/Anti-Personnel Weapon System (MAAWS) will be the Army’s anti-armor weapon of choice in the future. The Army has awarded Swedish aerospace and ...
Thanks to new legislation signed into law Saturday, anyone distressed with thoughts of suicide will be able by next fall to dial 988 to reach a national crisis line similar to 911 for mental health emergencies. President Donald Trump on Saturday ...
Read the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Maj. Mark Rasnake was exhausted. The 32-year-old Air Force infectious disease specialist had worked through the night treating some of the worst trauma he'd seen in his ...
You can learn a lot about war from books. While there are plenty of American veterans who might scoff at the idea that book learnin’ can effectively convey the experience of soldiering and combat, former US Secretary of Defense and decorated ...
The commander of a California-based Marine Corps unit that suffered the deaths of nine members during an amphibious assault vehicle training mishap July 30 has been removed from his post. Lt. Gen. Karsten Heckl, commanding general of I Marine ...
Twelve Naval Security Force (NSF) personnel involved in neutralizing a terror attack on Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in May were awarded for their lifesaving actions during a ceremony on the base Oct. 8. Acting Under Secretary of the Navy ...
Two Air Force pararescuemen assigned to the 48th Rescue Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, received the Bronze Star Medal with Valor on Oct. 1 for missions supporting Army Special Forces teams in Afghanistan in 2019. Master Sgt. ...
This article was originally published Oct. 12, 2020, on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. U.S. forces have come to the aid of the Afghan Army in the southern Helmand Province, striking at Taliban fighters who had attacked government security ...
On Oct. 12, 2000, al Qaeda terrorists carried out a suicide-bombing attack on the guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) while the ship was refueling in Yemen’s Aden harbor. Seventeen US sailors were killed and dozens injured in the ...
In 2007, I drank cobra blood from the bloody stump of the snake’s neck, and now I’m invincible. At least the first part of that sentence is true. The rest is an embellishment on an ancient belief in some Asian cultures that consuming snake flesh ...
On a recent warm fall afternoon in Charleston, South Carolina, Stacy Pearsall struggled to wind herself down from the daily bustle of ranch life. Flustered from her regular stream of chores and nursing a broken hand for which she recently underwent ...
After rock god Eddie Van Halen died of cancer Tuesday, Army Staff Sgt. Austin West processed the loss of one of his musical influences in the best way possible — by strapping on his guitar and absolutely shredding through a tribute on Facebook. In a ...
Black Rifle Coffee Company founders Evan Hafer and Mat Best recently took a ride inside Joe Rogan’s “red pill” studio, appearing on the comedian’s massively popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. The JRE, which has 9.7 million subscribers and ...
Texas Rangers arrested a police officer from a small town northeast of Dallas and charged him with murder Monday in the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Jonathan Price, a Black man who was reportedly intervening in a dispute at a gas station. The ...
When Matthew Callahan was first introduced to the movie Top Gun at 2 years old, the film became an instant favorite. So when the award-winning video producer for the Navy’s All Hands Magazine was tasked with producing a series of videos for Naval ...
Although the technology seems like it comes from “a galaxy far, far away,” Air Force pilots will soon be taking to the skies alongside R2-D2- like wingmen; autonomous and paired to the pilot’s aircraft. Skyborg is an autonomy-focused ...
A body-camera recording obtained by The Associated Press caught a Louisiana State trooper talking about severely beating a Black man after a car chase in May 2019, the AP reported Thursday. The AP did not publish the 27-second audio clip, but it ...
A ban from Facebook has apparently done little to slow Brian Kolfage, charged last month for defrauding thousands in a “build the wall” effort, and who regularly uses personal attacks and misinformation to sic his online following on perceived ...
On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Doris “Dorie” Miller was serving aboard the USS West Virginia as a Navy mess attendant 2nd class when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. As his battleship was sinking, the powerfully built 22-year-old ...
Jack Somers struggled to get his bearings. He didn’t recognize the place. He didn’t recognize the people in the crowd. It was 2010, and he served as a Marine Corps captain based out of Camp Pendleton, California. He’d commanded an antipiracy ...
If you pay attention to Glengarry Glen Ross — the 1992 film best remembered for its incredible acting, gorgeous cinematography, and iconic, meme-generating "coffee is for closers" scene — it’s hard to miss the fact that the whole movie is a thinly ...
This article was originally published Sept. 26, 2020, on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Iranian President Hassan Rohani told Iranians in a televised speech on September 26 to direct their anger over the impact of sanctions at ...
Read the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Congressman Dan Crenshaw is a former Navy SEAL and current representative for Texas' 2nd District. Now, he's also the headliner in one of the most hyped-up joint campaign ...
Read the original article on Military.com. Follow Military.com on Twitter. The Marine Corps is considering a plan in which it could close its two existing boot camp locations and funnel all recruits to a new base where men and women would train ...
This article was originally published Sept. 23, 2020, on We Are The Mighty. Ron Rosser was a patriot and a hero. The Medal of Honor recipient who reenlisted in the Army to avenge his brother, died in August at the age of 90. Army Master Sgt. ...
WASHINGTON D.C. — At the world headquarters of a major US military nonprofit, the father of deceased Marine Cpl. Nicholas Uzenski was introduced to a group of fundraisers as a “Gold Star” father. Three ladies huddled together in the same cubical ...
HARKER HEIGHTS, Texas – Daughter, sister, friend, leader, encourager, competitor, singer and giver of hugs. Those are all descriptions of 2nd Lt. Emily Perez, but above all those descriptions, her greatest joy was the love and faith she had in God … ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- When Frank Cohn, a 95-year-old retired Army colonel, first enlisted in 1943, he had already fled Nazi Germany after being targeted by the Gestapo. Looking back on the events that followed -- from his arrival to America seeking ...
When my dad was in college, he took a Pennsylvania history class, prompting him to delve into family history and genealogy. This is what he learned: His Great-Uncle Wally had served in World War I in France. There was a monument to his regiment and ...
In the Marines, they called him POG. The grunts in Iraq would size him up and see another gangly reporter, grinning under a crooked Kevlar helmet and rocking an overburdened kit of body armor, M16, notepad, pen, and bulky camera with extra lenses ...
