Buck, a former US Army Ranger-turned-Special Forces communication sergeant, quietly watched as a C-130 cargo airplane lifted off from the runway at Jalalabad Airfield with a deafening roar, quickly ascending into the pitch-black sky. “I know there’s a scientific ...
We’d just crossed a nameless, murky Amazonian river and were moving toward our objective on foot. The two-star general accompanying our motley crew of misfit medics through the Peruvian jungle informed us the advanced security element, just ahead of our location, ...
July is synonymous with the dog days of summer and celebrating our freedom as a nation. Whether you spend your days outside celebrating with parades, outdoor activities with friends, or fireworks, Black Rifle Coffee Company can keep you fueled from morning until ...
Since the Civil War, sharpshooters — now called snipers — are among the most feared on the battlefield. With stealth and concealment as their camouflage, you never know where they might be. Behind Germany, Russia, and even China, the US military didn’t use snipers on a ...
Hailing from just outside Ishpeming, Michigan, a small town in the Upper Peninsula, Alyssa Maybe grew up with the odds stacked against her. Both Child Protective Services and the local circuit court removed her from her family multiple times; first at the age of 7 after ...
It’s not that the backyard pool was remarkable in and of itself. Rather, it was the people swimming in it. Most of them had visible scars, some of them had fresh wounds that would eventually turn into scars, and one was even wearing a neck brace. Most of them held gold ...
Mohammed Sulaiman is a pilot who once possessed privileges surpassing all others in the Iraqi Air Force. As a member of the VIP squadron, his plane escorted the infamous dictator Saddam Hussein and many members of his cabinet around the world. Sulaiman regularly talked ...
Summer is in full swing, the heat has settled in, and the iced coffee is flowing nonstop. I tend to hit a point in mid-summer where the days start to blend together and my afternoon pick-me-ups become stagnant. Take it from me when I say that it’s time to switch it ...
Fuck Off Google." The sign hangs from an apartment balcony on the Landwehr Canal, a waterway that runs through the unkempt, bohemian district of Kreuzberg and later connects with the Spree. If you walk a little farther, you’ll see another sign, this one hand-painted ...
Programing is equal parts science and art. There is no single program that will work the same for every person. However, when we take into consideration general human physiology, pertinent systems such as neurological, endocrine, and muscular, we can create a base ...
With just over 5,000 employees, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is one of the smaller federal law enforcement agencies. However, that doesn’t mean they don’t deal with their share of vicious individuals, groups, and threats. In fact, ...
National Coffee Milkshake Day is the day you never knew you needed in your life — until now! It’s no run-of-the-mill coffee holiday; it’s much more. Like bacon and eggs or peanut butter and jelly, the coffee milkshake is destined to be among the great iconic duos of our ...
Our campsite was next to a small alpine lake in the North Cascades, not far from the Canadian border. It was day five of a nine-day trek, and before making dinner I sat down on the shore and looked out over the lake. Even as I relaxed, I still had my boots on. Normally, ...
It seems as if it was only yesterday, but over a decade has passed since I first met Tiny Moving Parts. The self-proclaimed family band trio, consisting of brothers Matthew and William Chevalier alongside their cousin Dylan Mattheisen, still hadn't graduated from high ...
Only a true badass can walk away from power and glory on his own terms in order to care for his son. That’s what Kratos did for Atreus in the 2018 reboot of one of PlayStation’s most defining titles. In “God of War,” Kratos attempts to put down his dual-wielded death ...
Thirty-five thousand people work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but there is only one national counterintelligence executive (NCIX) to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The role steers away from the spotlight (it’s literally behind ...
Warming up is an essential phase of your workout, and there are three phases to an effective warm-up. Let’s jump right in: Phase One: Shift your PH. Time commitment: Five minutes Our bodies are slightly alkaline with a PH of around 7.3 to 7.4. The ...
