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.
When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the north tower of the World Trade Center, Rick Rescorla immediately recognized what was happening. Rescorla, the director of security for Morgan Stanley, had survived the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and ...
On April 24, 2021, President Joe Biden addressed the nation about America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, delivering what would prove to be a stream of empty promises. “We will not conduct a hasty rush to the exit,” Biden said. "We’ll do it — ...
Marine Lt. Gen. Lewis “Chesty” Puller died in 1971 after a career in the Marine Corps that spanned 37 years and three wars. To this day, “Chesty” is the Corps’ most decorated Marine and a giant every jarhead knows by name. At boot camp, recruits ...
Sept. 11, 2001, was the deadliest day for first responders in American history. The terrorist attacks killed 343 New York City firefighters, 37 Port Authority police officers, and 23 New York City police officers. The destruction of the World Trade ...
Marines love to brag. Whether they're bragging about out-drinking the Navy or out-fighting the Army, Marines have a seemingly endless list of boasts they can’t always back up. But the Marine Corps has at least one distinction no other branch can ...
It’s been seven years since their last collaboration, and Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, and Dolph Lundgren are finally getting the band back together. The Expendables 4 is officially underway, and newcomers Megan Fox and Curtis Jackson, aka 50 ...
A new video has surfaced online depicting the chaotic reality of the Kabul evacuation. What appears to be footage shot on a Marine’s helmet-mounted camera reveals the poor conditions troops worked under to help evacuate 124,334 people from ...
“That’s not cinema,” legendary director Martin Scorsese said about superhero movies during a 2019 interview for Empire magazine. “It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being,” he ...
Hollywood actor and US Army veteran Ed Asner died Sunday, Aug. 29. He was 91. The actor, best known for his roles in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Up, died from natural causes in his home in Los Angeles, according to his publicist. The son of ...
The newest installment in the Call of Duty video game franchise was announced Aug. 19, and the trailer is wild. In the game titled Call of Duty: Vanguard, the series returns to its roots and jumps (literally) back into World War II. The popular ...
As the United States carries out its withdrawal from Afghanistan, many veterans who served there are struggling to process their feelings. Among those trying to understand how the withdrawal devolved into the current situation is Marine veteran and ...
As a member of a female engagement team with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Sgt. Nicole Gee was providing a vital skill set during the United States' chaotic final withdrawal from Afghanistan. She was there to communicate with and facilitate ...
A new episode of Disney Gallery was released Wednesday, Aug. 25, dedicated entirely to the season two finale of The Mandalorian. The episode detailed the great lengths filmmakers went to in order to ensure the surprise return of Mark Hamill as a ...
A Marine from Missouri who was less than a year old when al Qaeda terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, was identified as one of the 13 American service members killed in Afghanistan Thursday, Aug. 26. Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz ...
A Marine commander has been fired after posting a widely shared video to Facebook in which he called out the Secretary of Defense, Commandant of the Marine Corps, and other senior military leadership and demanded accountability for the chaotic and ...
In a new video, former Navy SEAL Lt. Cmdr. Jocko Willink delivers a speech as if he were the president of the United States briefing the public on the current situation in Afghanistan. In the mock presidential address, Willink accepts responsibility ...
Marines from 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment — a unit slated to be fully deactivated soon — were among the first Americans to respond to the crisis in Kabul. Alongside them, Marines of 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, and soldiers of the 82nd ...
With Afghanistan in chaos, a virtual movement that’s been dubbed the “Digital Dunkirk” and “the Lance Corporal Underground Railroad” is now in full swing. Government operations are failing to provide the administrative and logistical support ...
Watching Arnold Schwarzenegger take on T-1000 was as far-fetched as it was awesome in 1991. But a new Boston Dynamics video makes a robot-versus-robot scenario seem a little less crazy. Militaries around the world are already expanding their use ...
Joseph Galloway, the legendary American war correspondent best known for his book-turned-Hollywood-blockbuster that chronicled a pivotal 1965 battle in Vietnam, died Wednesday morning, Aug. 18, of complications from a heart attack, The Washington ...
The Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan shocked the world, with the insurgents assuming control of the country in less than two weeks. Their aggressive drive to the capital resulted in chaos at Hamid Karzai International Airport when thousands of ...
To oversee the evacuation of Kabul, the US is sending two generals who are among the US military's most experienced special operations leaders, both former commanders in the Army's and Navy's most elite counterterrorism commando units. On the ...
Renowned Afghan warlord Ismail Khan unexpectedly resurfaced in Iran after being captured by the Taliban on Friday, Aug. 13. Khan, known as the “Lion of Herat,” initially took up arms and rallied the citizens of Herat to resist the Taliban’s advance ...
The world watched the Taliban sweep across Afghanistan virtually unopposed in recent days. Their rapid gains and America’s hasty withdrawal from Kabul has left many Americans who served in that corner of the world questioning whether their sacrifices ...
On Sept. 11, 2001, an Associated Press photograph dubbed “The Falling Man” captured a man jumping to his death from the World Trade Center to avoid being burned alive. The shocking photograph of a man rocketing headfirst toward earth gave the world ...
A well-respected Afghan warlord and former governor known as the “Lion of Herat” capitulated to the Taliban Friday, Aug. 13, following weeks of fighting in Afghanistan’s third-largest city, according to the insurgents and local ...
Only a “core diplomatic presence” will remain at the US Embassy in Afghanistan, according to the Biden administration. All other personnel are withdrawing amid steady Taliban gains across the country. The announcement came Thursday, Aug. 12, as Herat ...
Black Rifle Coffee Company founder Evan Hafer returned to The Joe Rogan Experience last week to shoot the shit. The Green Beret-turned-CEO discussed a variety of topics, from the recent New York Times Magazine article to riding fan boats into the ...
Lombard Street was wet with rain on Oct. 3, 1849. The dreary weather was normal for a fall evening in Baltimore, but what a passerby found slumped outside Gunner’s Hall public house was anything but. Lying in the cobblestone gutter — dressed in ...
Tom Cruise will be back in the spotlight when Top Gun: Maverick finally hits theaters later this year. The Jerry Maguire actor is perhaps best known for his incredible stunt work — like scaling the Burj Khalifa and HALO jumping for the Mission ...
