A number of National Guard troops were removed from the United States Capitol complex and made to spend their rest breaks crowded into a parking garage on Thursday, two weeks into their deployment following the riot at the Capitol on January ...
Fort Bliss Soldier Charged with Sexual Assault, Faces Court-Martial
A soldier at Fort Bliss, Texas, faces a court-martial after being charged last week with serial sexual assault in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Pvt. First Class Christian Alvarado was charged with three specifications of ...
Congress Overrides Trump’s Veto of NDAA — Here’s What’s in It
During a rare New Year’s Day session, Congress overrode a presidential veto for the first time in President Donald Trump’s term in office. The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act will go into effect over Trump’s objection, passing the Senate by a ...
9 More of the Best Coffee Moments in American Movie History
We may be down to the dregs in this, our third list of the best coffee moments in movies. But there’s still lots of laughs, lots of emotion, and lots of java to be found in the annals of filmmaking. We took suggestions from readers and managed to ...
Military Funding in Limbo as Trump Vetoes 2021 National Defense Authorization Act
President Donald Trump vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 on Wednesday afternoon, leaving military funding for the coming year in limbo and requiring both chambers of Congress to return early from their holiday ...
1 Fort Drum Soldier Dead, Another Facing Charges
One Fort Drum soldier is dead and another faces charges after police discovered a body in rural Sussex County, New Jersey. Cpl. Hayden Allen Harris, 20, was reported missing on Friday. Sussex County assistant prosecutor Gregory Mueller told The ...
Multiple Veteran Service Organizations Call for Resignation of VA Secretary Robert Wilkie
The Democratic Party leadership in the US House of Representatives, along with a number of major veterans service organizations, are calling for the resignation of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie after the release of a report from the ...
14 Members of Fort Hood Command Relieved of Duty
On Tuesday, Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy announced the results of a months-long independent review of the command climate at Fort Hood. Fourteen members of Fort Hood’s command, from division to squad level, were suspended or relieved of ...
Brian Tally Fights to Pass Bill to Help Veterans Sue for Malpractice
Marine veteran Brian Tally is a man on a mission. After a botched diagnosis at a VA hospital emergency room in 2016 left him battling the systemic aftereffects of a tissue-eating staph infection, Tally was unable to sue for malpractice due to a ...
From South Dakota to War, Van Life, and Journalism: The Many Adventures of Marty Skovlund Jr.
s a member of the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment, Marty Skovlund Jr. completed five combat deployments. But the only time he ever got shot was in basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia. It was a hot July afternoon on the range, and as he waited ...
How Marine Ethan Nagel Went From Silver Star Recipient to Filmmaker
Ethan Nagel grew up wanting to be a film director, but even more than that, he wanted to be a Marine like his grandfathers before him. “Growing up watching war movies, I always wanted to prove myself in combat,” Nagel said. “Could you even do it? ...
Making People Laugh is Marine Veteran Jack Mandaville’s Job — Literally
Jack Mandaville grew up “a fat kid with Tourette’s syndrome — I learned at a very young age to basically make fun of myself first so nothing anyone else said would matter.” Mandaville now puts his “slapsticky self-deprecating sense of humor” to use ...
Medal of Honor Recipient Clint Romesha On Fame and Living Life Right
When Clint Romesha left the Army in 2011, he intended to live a life completely disconnected from the military, to put his time in the service in a box up on a shelf. He moved to Minot, North Dakota, with his wife and three kids to work in the oil ...
Logan Stark Explains the Magic Behind the Black Rifle Coffee Media Machine
When a group from Black Rifle Coffee Company’s leadership team took a trip to Guatemala this spring, former Marine and the company editor-in-chief Logan Stark kept the company’s pillars of content in mind through it all: entertain, inform, and ...
How Gaming Led Army Veteran Eli Cuevas to BRCC
Eli Cuevas didn’t expect the short video he made about Final Fantasy XIV to change the direction of his life. “It was a game I was super stoked about, and then it was an immediate letdown, just a terrible video game,” Cuevas said. “It was bad ...
Veteran, BRCC VP Mat Best Likes Having ‘700 Irons in the Fire’
As a kid, Mat Best was always creating universes in his head or singing silly songs to make his friends laugh. He never dreamed that he would grow up to do it for a living. “You’re convinced through social constructs that you have to get that 9-to-5 ...
Evan Hafer Draws from Military Experience to Create ‘Encouraging Ecosystem’ at Black Rifle Coffee Company
Evan Hafer, the CEO of Black Rifle Coffee Company, considers himself the “master editor” of the company. “It’s an extension of my body at this point,” Hafer told Coffee or Die Magazine. “I built it from my garage, so I’ve had basically every job ...
Army Ranger Veteran Luke Ryan Didn’t Just Fight in War-torn Countries — He Grew Up in Them
Plenty of people who work for Black Rifle Coffee Company have been to some of the most war-torn places on earth, but social media manager Luke Ryan actually grew up there. Born in Michigan, Ryan is the son of missionary medical aid workers who moved ...
Fort Hood Changes Leadership as Investigation into Death of Soldier Vanessa Guillén Begins
Following a series of high-profile criminal incidents at Fort Hood, Texas, Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt was removed from his command of the base on Tuesday. Efflandt was in line to take over command of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, also in ...
Body of Missing Fort Hood Soldier Found, Third Case Since June
The body of a missing Fort Hood soldier was discovered on Tuesday, the third dead soldier recovered near the Army base in the last three months. Sgt. Elder Fernandes, 23, was a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear specialist in the ...
A Recon Marine Claims Self-Defense After Strip Club Murder, Has One Last Chance to Prove Innocence
oo many drinks and a Wyoming snowstorm will make anyone reconsider driving home from the strip club. It was just after midnight when John Knospler Jr. was jolted awake in the driver's seat by what sounded like someone trying to get into his car. The ...
Army Confirms Remains Belong to Fort Hood Soldier Vanessa Guillén
Army officials confirmed Monday that the human remains found last week near the Leon River in Texas were those of missing Specialist Vanessa Guillén. The identification was made through DNA analysis. Guillén, a small arms repairer, was last seen ...
Grisly Details Emerge in the Case of Missing Fort Hood Soldier Vanessa Guillén
Editor’s Note: In the interest of accurately reporting the events of Spc. Guillen’s murder, we have included details in this article that may be upsetting to some readers. While the command at Fort Hood remains steadfast in their refusal to ...
Remains Found Near Fort Hood Suspected to Belong to Missing Soldier Vanessa Guillén
The search for missing soldier Vanessa Guillén appears to have come to a tragic end on Tuesday, when human remains were found in a shallow grave near the Leon River 25 miles from Killeen, Texas. Private First Class Guillén, who was 20 years old, ...
Veteran with Lung Cancer From Burn Pits Seeks Changes to VA, DOD Benefits
Major Richard Star loved to run. A U.S. Army reservist for 28 years and 10 months, Star served almost 15 of those years of active duty, starting with Operation Desert Storm. “I just enjoyed running,” Star said. “And you breathe in deeply, ...
Foul Play Suspected in Disappearance of Soldier Vanessa Guillen
When Private First Class Vanessa Guillén disappeared on April 22, the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hood, Texas, sprang into action. Five-hundred soldiers a day were searching around the base, and the 1st Cavalry Regiment provided over 100 hours of ...
American Dream: The Journey of a Haitian Immigrant turned US Army Black Hawk Pilot
A newly minted West Point graduate, Alix Idrache was not expecting May 24, 2016, to be a particularly exceptional day. “I was having a regular day. I just graduated, I’m really happy,” he said. But then he logged on to his Facebook account — “I had ...
11 Questions & A Cup of Coffee: BRCC Editor in Chief Logan Stark
If you’ve watched, read, or listened to anything made by Black Rifle Coffee Company, you can rest assured Logan Stark has had a hand in its creation. One of the company’s OGs, Stark is the Editor in Chief of BRCC and oversees all content from ...
The Feres Doctrine Denies Rights to Sexual Trauma Victims — How One Soldier is Fighting It
rin Scanlon never expected to become the face behind a proposed Congressional bill. All she did was attend a party in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Sept. 9, 2016. “There was this nonprofit that had this event,” said Scanlon. “That’s when I met ...
Free Range American Podcast Spotlights Hard Work and Adventure
The world of podcasts is a wide and varied one. Offerings have nearly doubled over the last two years — and with more than 900,000 podcasts to choose from, there's sure to be one to match the tastes and interests of the more than 50 percent of ...