Ethan E. Rocke is a contributor and former senior editor for Coffee or Die Magazine. 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.”
Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is one of America’s most celebrated pieces of war literature. The book, which was published in 1990, is a collection of linked, semi-autobiographical short stories inspired by O'Brien's experiences as a soldier ...
Early Tuesday evening, people in Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut watched as a massive plume of gray smoke from an explosion in the port billowed over the capital skyline. Then a second devastating explosion erupted from the site, blooming up with a ...
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, ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I 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 ...
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 ...
Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson, who serves residents in and around Flint, Michigan, became a viral sensation when he walked into a sea of protestors May 30, put down his helmet and baton, and said, “You tell us what you need.” When the ...
The protestors who took over the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct and established a no-cop zone in the surrounding area have a clandestine armed security force patrolling the area, but news reports that the force is using “stop and frisk” ...
The weekend before she was diagnosed with COVID-19, Mackenzie Wolf was sitting on her couch in her apartment in Ellicott City, Maryland, when the intense fatigue and lightheadedness got so bad she started seeing black spots. “I remember sitting my ...
For the 11th day in a row, protestors took to the streets Sunday in Portland, Oregon, demonstrating against police brutality and demanding criminal justice reforms. Hundreds of protestors — most of them white — gathered outside the Multnomah ...
Jocko Willink, the retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer who commanded one of the deadliest special operations units in Iraq, took to his popular YouTube channel Friday to share “a glimpse of hope’’ for a less divided America. In the video, Willink ...
Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, who served in President Donald Trump’s administration until he resigned in protest in December 2018, released a statement on Wednesday saying Trump is "the first president in my lifetime who does not try to ...
In 2016, former U.S. Army Green Beret Nate Boyer wrote an open letter to Colin Kaepernick about Kaepernick’s choice to remain seated during the national anthem. Kaepernick responded by asking Boyer, who served a brief stint as a Seattle Seahawks ...
As his city boiled with frustration and anger over the killing of George Floyd, Atlanta rapper and activist Killer Mike stepped to the microphone at the mayor’s press conference Friday night in Atlanta, his voice cracking with a labored lilt. “I ...
