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.
If you like your military movies to be even remotely plausible, then you probably think Top Gun is the gold standard for on-screen aerial combat. But if you prefer your 1980s action with extra cheese, then you likely already know Doug Masters and ...
Masters of the Air — the long-awaited World War II miniseries from Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg — wrapped filming, and Hanks already has his sights on another World War II project. In addition to being an executive producer for the upcoming ...
In a display of solidarity with Ukraine, legendary rock band Pink Floyd teamed up with Ukrainian rock star Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the band Boombox to release their first single in nearly 30 years. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers created a unique ...
HBO’s award-winning miniseries The Pacific is widely considered one of the best television shows ever made about World War II. Following in the wake of the groundbreaking miniseries Band of Brothers — which follows a company of American paratroopers ...
After years of delays, Top Gun: Maverick is finally soaring into theaters this May, and with it comes the two biggest stars of the original high-flying blockbuster. Tom Cruise is set to reprise his role as hotshot fighter pilot Maverick, and flying ...
We’re at 10,188 feet on the mountain when I start to worry. The numbness in my toes has crept into my ankles and is now climbing up my shins toward my knees. My hands are clumsy for lack of blood, and icy water is running down my back and attempting ...
Since leaving the military 16 years ago, David Rose has locked people up as a police officer, gotten himself placed on house arrest (anklet GPS and all), fought Muay Thai professionally, been committed to a VA psych ward, contracted in Afghanistan, ...
On Friday, March 25, Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) confirmed that the award-winning book Redeployment by Marine veteran Phil Klay was pulled from school libraries, citing “many instances of violence, drugs and ...
The National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas, Friday, March 25. The museum, which is scheduled to open in 2024, will celebrate the service of the more than 3,500 ...
It’s been one month since Russia invaded Ukraine. What Vladimir Putin and much of the world originally expected to be a quick and easy victory over their smaller neighbor has rapidly devolved into a military disaster for Russia. The Pentagon ...
To conclude his combat memoir Beyond Band of Brothers, retired major and World War II veteran Richard “Dick” Winters reiterates the truism that war simultaneously brings out the best and worst in people. There are few mediums better for understanding ...
The Wire writers David Simon and George Pelecanos have teamed up again for HBO’s upcoming drama We Own This City, and the recently released trailer suggests the highly anticipated miniseries will be a gritty portrayal of Baltimore’s notoriously ...
In a now-viral video posted across multiple media platforms Thursday, March 17, Arnold Schwarzenegger begged Russia to end its war against Ukraine. During the nine-minute video, Schwarzenegger pleads for his “dear Russian friends” to accept the truth ...
The political comedy series Servant of the People — which stars Ukraine’s current president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and helped kick-start his political career — is back on Netflix. The series originally ran in Ukraine from 2015 to 2019 and helped ...
Super fans of the first-person shooter video game franchise Halo might be disappointed to hear the new television series from Paramount+ deviates from the plot of the games, but while some viewers are frowning at the unexpected changes, initial ...
In 1985, when tensions between the Soviets and Western democracy were rising to a fever pitch, a Russian anti-war film about World War II captivated audiences and critics around the world. Restored in 2K resolution and rereleased in 2020, Come and ...
Alejandro Villanueva, the former Army Ranger who earned a spot as an offensive tackle with the Pittsburgh Steelers after leaving the Army in 2015, is retiring after a seven-year career in the National Football League. The two-time Pro Bowler played ...
In April, the sixth and final season of BBC’s smash hit Peaky Blinders will arrive on Netflix. Since first airing in 2013, the British gangster drama has blown audiences away with its depiction of England’s criminal underworld following World War I. ...
In a ceremony on Capitol Hill Wednesday, March 9, the military working dog who served in the SEAL Team 6 raid that took down Usama Bin Laden and a secret service dog who stopped a White House intruder in 2014 were honored alongside four other ...
The highly anticipated first look at Amazon’s upcoming series The Terminal List is finally here. In the short teaser trailer, Chris Pratt stars as Navy SEAL James Reece on a warpath to avenge the murders of his fellow SEALs and family. The ...
War movies often contain some of the most intense scenes of combat trauma and battlefield medicine in cinema. There’s a fine line between realism and good drama, but several war movies stand above the crowd for their realistic depictions of grievous ...
The Ukrainian navy confirmed today that the 13 Snake Island defenders reportedly killed after replying “Go fuck yourself” to a Russian warship’s demands to surrender are actually “alive and well” in Russian captivity. After video of the exchange ...
Saturday Night Live opted to forgo its standard comedy-sketch cold open and instead began Saturday’s show with an emotional performance from New York’s Ukrainian Chorus Dumka. The chorus performed “Prayer for Ukraine” for the studio’s live ...
As Russian forces meet fierce resistance from Ukrainian military forces and civilians alike, the owners of Lviv-based Pravda Brewery have pivoted to making petrol bombs, known colloquially as Molotov cocktails, to aid in the country’s defense. On ...
As Ukrainian forces defended their nation against a Russian invasion launched the morning of Thursday, Feb. 24, a meme purporting to show a Ukrainian MiG-29 in the skies above Kyiv spread across the internet, becoming a potent rallying cry for anyone ...
The new Taliban government in Afghanistan called for peace between Russia and Ukraine in an official statement today. In a statement posted to Twitter, Taliban Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi called for “restraint by both ...
Russian ground forces have moved into the Chernobyl "exclusion zone" — and seized control of the nuclear plant, sources told CNN — risking the spread of radioactive dust across Europe from buried nuclear waste storage sites, Anton Gerashchenko, ...
Retired Maj. James Capers Jr. is a man of mythic status within the Marines’ Reconnaissance and special operations communities. In October 2010, he became one of the first US service members added to the US Special Operations Command’s Commando Hall ...
In February 1945, 110,000 Marines and sailors were fighting their way across the volcanic sand of Iwo Jima. When the smoke settled and the smell of cordite finally began to dissipate in the island air, 6,821 Americans lay dead. Though the ...
Amazon’s upcoming action series The Terminal List — based on Navy SEAL and bestselling author Jack Carr’s series of thriller novels and starring Chris Pratt — has finally received a premiere date. Pratt announced the July 1 release date in an ...
