Mac Caltrider is a staff writer for Coffee or Die Magazine. He served in the US Marine Corps and is a former police officer. Caltrider earned his bachelor’s degree in history and now reads anything he can get his hands on. He is also the creator of Pipes & Pages, a site intended to increase readership among enlisted troops. Caltrider spends most of his time reading, writing, and waging a one-man war against premature hair loss.
Luke Ryan knows a thing or two about war and the human condition. Before he started writing professionally, Ryan served in the US Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment, deploying four times to Afghanistan. With two published poetry collections and an ...
Just four hours into their first patrol, the scout snipers of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment’s Surveillance and Target Acquisition Platoon were surrounded and taking effective fire from 180 degrees of enemy positions. The inaugural firefight was ...
After two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, America’s longest war has finally come to an end. Historians will long debate if the war was a successful response to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, or if it was a strategic failure, but ...
Director Ridley Scott is closing out 2021 with a bang. Fresh off the releases of The Last Duel and House of Gucci, Scott announced Monday that his 1982 neo-noir masterpiece, Blade Runner, is getting its first live-action television ...
The US Air Force’s Profession of Arms Center of Excellence recently released a video titled "Heritage Today — ISR and Innovation" that appears to reveal the secret RQ-180 High-Altitude, Long-Endurance (HALE) stealth drone, which some airmen have ...
Mel Gibson will don two hats for Lethal Weapon 5, starring again as detective Martin Riggs and directing the film, which will be the first installment in the franchise not directed by Richard Donner, who died in July. Donner — known for directing ...
The United Nations Space Command’s most elite operator is finally getting the live-action treatment he deserves. Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 from the popular Halo video game franchise is coming to television in 2022 via a long-awaited series ...
Star Wars owes much of its success to samurai movies. George Lucas’ not-so-subtle obsession with Japan’s sword-wielding warriors directly contributed to the stories, imagery, and names of his space-opera franchise. From the Force-sensitive warriors ...
Every American soldier’s journey begins the same way: with 10 grueling weeks of basic training. A new docuseries marks the first time in more than 20 years that the Army has allowed cameras to capture an unfiltered look at the strenuous ...
Gone are the days of Bob Hope’s United Service Organizations. The USO has moved into the modern age of entertaining troops. Starting on Veterans Day and continuing through Nov. 14, the USO will host a gaming “streamathon.” The USO’s Operation Play ...
Marines around the world will soon celebrate the fact that 246 years ago “a few good men” in a bar in South Philly volunteered to be “soldiers of the sea” in exchange for a daily half-pint of rum. To commemorate the Marine Corps birthday on Nov. 10, ...
When Ethan Hawke and his stepbrother saw Top Gun in a theater in 1986, the film changed their lives forever. In Hawke’s TED Talk video — “Give Yourself Permission To Be Creative” — the acclaimed actor describes how the movie that made homoerotic ...
Jamey Caldwell is the only man who can claim to have professionally hunted both bass and Usama Bin Laden. As an operator, Caldwell spent seven years in the 75th Ranger Regiment and the rest of his 21 years in the Army as a member of a special ...
The 38th commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. David Berger, has a new message for the Corps’ 246th birthday: Marines are returning to the sea. Every year, in celebration of the Marine Corps’ Nov. 10 birthday, the commandant releases a birthday ...
The galaxy’s favorite Sarlacc-surviving bounty hunter is finally back, and it’s clear that Boba Fett has cemented himself atop Jabba’s throne as the Don Corleone of Star Wars’ seedy underworld. A new trailer for The Book of Boba Fett just dropped, ...
Acclaimed screenwriter Robert Rodat saw the dramatic story of a Marine major and his Afghan interpreter on The Rachel Maddow Show and immediately recognized its movie potential. Rodat is best known for penning the scripts for Saving Private Ryan and ...
When I was approaching a crossroads at the end of high school and deciding which branch to enlist in, I was stuck between two choices: Army or Marines. I had a very brief conversation with an Army recruiter dressed in heavily wrinkled cammies. His ...
War movies often take on bigger missions than just making combat visually stimulating from the safety of your couch. On-screen battle works well when the focus is on explosions and pretty-colored tracers, but some of the best war movies opt to tackle ...
Nothing goes together quite like popcorn and unconventional warfare. That’s why Hollywood serves up plenty of both with movies about special operations warriors. The US Army’s Special Forces — often referred to as Green Berets — are among the best ...
Lightyear appears to be boldly going where no Toy Story movie has gone before. The new trailer from Pixar reveals a much different tone from that of the previous four Toy Story installments, expanding the franchise with a new, grander vision of ...
If you’re already thirsting for more giant sandworms and scorched desertscapes after watching Dune, you can breathe a little easier. Part two of director Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s wildly popular novel has been officially ...
In 1998, Saving Private Ryan forever changed the way Hollywood depicted combat. Prior to Steven Spielberg’s portrayal of the Normandy landings, war movies typically portrayed combat as a glory-filled adventure void of carnage and chaos. Since the ...
From possession classics like The Exorcist and The Omen to slashers like Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street, horror movies have more subgenres than there are cavities caused by candy corn. Among the most fun, however, is the fusion of horror ...
The ancient Chinese philosopher and strategist San Tzu claimed all warfare is based on deception. With such enormous battles spanning the entire globe, it’s hard to think World War II fits that mold, but a brazen plot to trick Adolf Hitler into ...
Alec Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on a New Mexico film set Thursday, Oct. 21, killing the director of photography and wounding the director, according to local law enforcement officials. The incident occurred on the set of the Western film ...
In 1990, industrial designer Louis Nelson was commissioned to design the Korean War Veterans Memorial that now sits on the National Mall in Washington. Nelson and sculptor Frank Gaylord are responsible for the haunting monument that features 19 steel ...
A new Dutch war movie is taking Netflix’s streaming charts by storm. The Forgotten Battle climbed to Netflix’s Top 10 in the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France within one day of premiering. It’s already received awards for best editing, ...
When Robert Pattinson was cast as Batman in 2019, many fans of DC’s darkest superhero were skeptical. Pattinson, largely known for his role in Twilight, lacked the muscles and tough-guy persona Batman is known for. But the latest trailer for The ...
The latest Marvel installment to arrive on Disney+ is full of holiday spirit, and we’re here for it. Set to Andy Williams’ Christmas classic, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” the new trailer for Marvel’s upcoming Hawkeye series ...
Robin Williams appears to be back from the dead in a shockingly accurate impersonation by actor Jamie Costa. Costa uploaded five minutes of “test footage” for a nonexistent Robin Williams biopic, and the resemblance is uncanny. Although there is ...
