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.
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 ...
In the mid-2000s, a widely shared rumor about Denzel Washington swirled around the US military. The scuttlebutt purported that while Washington was visiting wounded soldiers in Texas, he dramatically whipped out a checkbook and donated enough to ...
Gladiator is officially getting a sequel. More than two decades have passed since Ridley Scott’s sword-and-sandal epic won the Academy Award for best picture. It’s still unclear how the new story will tie in to the original film. “I’m already ...
The battlefields of the future are already here. Between robot dogs and exoskeletons, technology is rapidly making its way toward the front lines. A new video released by Spear, a company that develops and manufactures unmanned aerial systems, shows ...
The Battle of the Chosin Reservoir was a legendary showdown during the Korean War that pitted 30,000 American, British, and South Korean fighters against a Chinese force of more than 120,000. A new movie, titled The Battle at Lake Changjin, recounts ...
The season two premiere of United States of Al, the CBS sitcom about an Afghan interpreter living with an American veteran in the US, brings the fall of Afghanistan back into American living rooms. The show places main characters, Al, an Afghan ...
Filming is set to begin in 2023 for the feature-film finale of Peaky Blinders, the popular British period drama that follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family after World War I, the show’s creator, Steven Knight, announced recently. During ...
Daniel Craig is ending his five-movie run as James Bond Friday, Oct. 8, with the release of No Time To Die. Craig gave audiences a near-universally loved version of the legendary secret agent, but with his reign finally ending, talks have already ...
Jake Gyllenhaal is a one-man show in Netflix’s new psychological thriller, The Guilty. The End of Watch actor plays Joe Baylor, a Los Angeles Police Department cop forced to work a shift as a 911 dispatcher while awaiting trial for an unspecified ...
In a recent podcast appearance, Dan Schilling, the Air Force combat controller who served with Task Force Ranger during the Battle of Mogadishu and later co-authored a book about the bloody operation, pushed back against the notion that the famed ...
In 1953, British intelligence officer and author Ian Fleming created one of the most recognizable characters of all time: James Bond. The fictional secret agent has been fighting for queen and country since first appearing in Fleming’s novel Casino ...
The same oppressive regime that stood toe-to-toe with the United States military for two decades apparently couldn’t handle a carnival ride. A short video shared by photojournalist Andrew Quilty shows 12 members of the Taliban riding a dilapidated ...
Sunday, Oct. 3, marks the 28th anniversary of Operation Gothic Serpent, the 18-hour firefight in downtown Mogadishu, Somalia, that claimed the lives of 19 Americans and wounded more than 70 others. The 1993 battle was one of the bloodiest days in ...
