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.”
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two police officers were shot Wednesday night in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, after protests decrying the killing of Breonna Taylor turned violent. Protesters took to the streets in cities all over the country after Kentucky Attorney General ...
News of Gunnery Sgt. Steve Stibbens’ passing on Saturday spread fast through the ranks of current and former military journalists and war correspondents for whom Stibbens was a legend, friend, and role model. “The retired ranks of the Marine Corps ...
Winston Groom, the Vietnam veteran and Southern writer best known for his 1986 novel Forrest Gump, which became the beloved 1994 film starring Tom Hanks, died in his sleep Thursday at his home in Fairhope, Alabama. He was 77. Groom’s stepson, ...
For its latest recruiting commercial, the Marine Corps got an Oscar-winning filmmaker to draw a dramatic contrast between the often-isolating online world and the Corps’ pitch to Generation Z that service in its ranks offers a path toward a life of ...
Americans regard the National Guard as a United States-based force, but, in truth, it's hard to go anywhere in the world and not see a soldier wearing an Army National Guard patch. Over the past few months, there were 77,000 Army Guardsmen and over ...
Senior Chief Petty Officer Jayme Thomas Pastoric comes from a long line of artist-warriors. As one of the Defense Department’s few dive-qualified, underwater photographers, the Navy mass communication specialist and Cleveland, Ohio, native is a ...
Roughly 300 National Guard members will soon join approximately 700 others already mobilized in support of a massive operation to fight widespread wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes, killed at least 10 people, displaced tens of ...
Desiree had been seeing Aaron “Jay” Danielson for about a month when he sent her a text on the afternoon of Aug. 29. “On my way to film the rally,” Danielson wrote. Danielson and Desiree had known each other for about a year but only recently ...
There is a famous phrase in American literature that goes like this: “Every love story is a ghost story.” The late, great author and tortured genius David Foster Wallace penned the poetic sentence in a letter to a friend in 1986, and Wallace ...
After retired Marine Lt. Col. Kate Germano took command of the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in 2014, she sought to reform the Corps’ recruit training practices. “This job seemed perfect for me,” ...
After Washington, DC police officer Alexander Alvarez shot and killed 18-year-old Deon Kay in southeast Washington Thursday, it took less than 24 hours for the department to release Alvarez’s body-camera footage. The footage appears to show Kay ...
An Army Ranger assigned to the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Command will be awarded the Medal of Honor Sept. 11 for his actions in a 2015 raid that rescued approximately 70 prisoners from Islamic State militants in Iraq, according to the Associated ...
A Facebook livestream captured grainy video Saturday night that appears to show the moment a man — dressed in a white shirt, shorts, tube socks, and a black hat — shoots and kills Aaron J. Danielson, a supporter of the conservative group Patriot ...
Wisconsin Sen. Steve Nass released a statement Friday issued by the Kenosha Professional Police Association (KPPA) and the officers involved in the Jacob Blake shooting, providing the officers’ version of events. Kenosha Police Officer Rusten ...
The last time Tim Jeffers was on Okinawa, he had legs. That was in February 2006 when Jeffers, then a corporal assigned to 3rd Transportation Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, as a motor transport operator, left the island for Iraq’s ...
“Scars are not forever” was conceived for one Marine in the months of rehabilitation that followed an IED blast in Iraq, which left him badly burned and disfigured. Since then, the spirit of that ideal has evolved into an innovative partnership ...
Kasinal White felt like screaming with joy when she received the news Thursday — on her 62nd birthday — that 15 years of tireless work may soon culminate with the awarding of the nation’s highest award for military valor to her brother, Sgt. 1st ...
