Marty Skovlund, Jr. is the executive editor of Coffee or Die Magazine. As a journalist, Marty has covered the Standing Rock protest in North Dakota, embedded with American special operation forces in Afghanistan, and has broke stories about the first females to make it through infantry training and Ranger selection. He has also published two books, appeared as a co-host on History Channel’s JFK Declassified, and has produced multiple award-winning independent films.
The Military Reporters & Editors Association (MRE) announced the winners of its 2022 journalism contest on Thursday, June 2, recognizing journalists in 11 categories, with three honorable mentions. The recipients of this year’s awards come from a ...
Long before CBS cast Tyler Grey as operator Trent Sawyer on the hit show SEAL Team, he was a real-life Army Ranger sniper turned operator assigned to the US Army’s secretive counterterrorism special missions unit. He deployed multiple times to Iraq ...
LVIV, Ukraine — Arranged in a neat formation of straight lines, 109 empty baby carriages sit in Lviv's Rynok Square, one each for the 109 children across Ukraine known to have died under the brutal Russian siege. Long-range missiles have begun to ...
LVIV, Ukraine — Residents in Lviv woke to air raid sirens on March 13, just as they had for the past few mornings. This time was different though; a muffled explosion could be heard in the distance. The Ukrainian military confirmed approximately ...
Ukraine and Russia have agreed to peace talks set to take place on the border with Belarus, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has put his nuclear deterrent forces on alert. The war between Russian invaders and Ukrainians defending their country ...
The Ukrainian government claims their forces have shot down two IL-76 "Candid" fixed-wing strategic airlift jets outside of Kyiv, capable of carrying over 100 paratroopers each. Coffee or Die Magazine cannot verify the claims, and no corroborating ...
Some people drive cars for a living. Some drive tractors or long-haul trucks. Joshua Wesson drives boats. Specifically, he’s the captain of a 270-foot offshore supply vessel, or OSV, and dodging hurricanes is just another day on the job. Wesson’s ...
The water about 30 miles off the beautiful beaches of Key West was choppy. The clouds overhead were ominous, and the 18-knot winds were making their presence known on our modest, government-issued, 25-foot center-console boat. A dead seagull’s fixed ...
Whether she’s charging up mountains, grabbing catfish out of rivers with her bare hands, or producing hilarious videos for Black Rifle Coffee Company, Heather Lynn is always highly caffeinated and living life to the fullest. In fact, sometimes living ...
In the pitch dark, I looked out across the Jalalabad flight line. It was 11 years later, I wasn’t in the Army anymore, and Afghanistan was once again “the other war” next to the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. I sat next to a Green Beret who ...
"Here's to the good times, here's to the bad times, and the memories we'll always have." The most simple words, the most direct phrases, often land the hardest. As the nation winds down its longest war, maybe this Memorial Day weekend lands a ...
Writer. Entertainer. Best friends with Scott Stapp. Diarrhea survivor. Single mom. Compulsive liar. Meet Jack Mandaville. The jewel of Minnesota turned edgy comic is a man of many talents, but none more apparent than his no-holds-barred, ...
If you have been drinking coffee for more than a minute, you’ve probably seen the stuck-up snobbery that plays out in coffee shops around the country every day. It is almost never perpetrated by the actual coffee aficionado, but rather the person who ...
The 2021 David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition is over, with the title of "Best Ranger" coming back home to the 75th Ranger Regiment. Team 34's 1st Lt. Vince Paikowski and 1st Lt. Alastair Keys were announced the victors shortly after ...
Richard Ryan is a modern Renaissance man. His interests touch upon everything from comedy and science to firearms and blowing things up. Since starting his own media ventures in 2005, Ryan has amassed 5 billion affiliated views and millions of ...
Texas Hill Country is 100 proof, pure, unfiltered America. It’s littered with deer, filled to the brim with pickup trucks and American flags, and there’s no shortage of fine folks who would likely give you the shirt off their back if you asked — ...
The wind howled and the rain poured constant as a pair of the US Air Force's most deadly battlefield airmen made their way up and then down a massive obstacle called The Weaver on Fort Hood’s air assault obstacle course. The task was not easy, ...
Rangers lead the way, and that’s exactly what Sgt. Maj. Thomas “Patrick” Payne did during a daring hostage rescue in Iraq on Oct. 22, 2015. For his actions that night, Payne will be receiving the Medal of Honor in a White House ceremony on Sept. 11, ...
FORT BRAGG, NC – Staff Sgt. Vincent P. Marketta, 33, of Brick, New Jersey, and Sgt. Tyler M. Shelton, 22, of San Bernardino, California, died August 27, from injuries sustained during an aircraft mishap while conducting aviation training on San ...
Great coffee doesn't happen on accident. For Black Rifle Coffee Company, the process of providing great coffee to our customers doesn't start at the roasting machines or the shipping facility. It starts in coffee country. Coffee country doesn't ...
There are things that can annoy you during your time in uniform, like PowerPoint presentations, waiting to be released for the weekend, and that private who clearly needed a waiver to get in. Wait, that’s not a private, that’s a lieutenant! And ...
Ernest Hemingway is a near-mythic figure in 20th century American literature, and for good cause. From accompanying Patton’s army in the Second World War, to fishing off the shores of Cuba, Papa and his adventures have been read by millions and ...
The United States has been grappling with civil unrest ranging from peaceful protests to all-out riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in police custody. Portland has been in the national spotlight most recently after federal law ...
Black Rifle Coffee Company founder and CEO Evan Hafer has three loves: his family, his projectiles, and his coffee. Those elements led him to launch BRCC back in 2014, when he decided to stop deploying overseas. However, it was on those deployments ...
Two years ago this month, we launched Coffee or Die Magazine. In June 2018, I wouldn’t have imagined that today we would be in the midst of both a pandemic and a civil rights crisis. But I don’t think I’m the only one 2020 took by ...
President Trump announced the formation of the United States Space Force in 2018 and has wasted no time in making sure the new branch is up and operational during his tenure as president. "We must have American dominance in space," Trump said during ...
Independent bookstores have been through a lot since Jack Carr, the son of a librarian, joined the U.S. Navy in 1996. The rise of Amazon.com and big-box book retailers like Barnes & Noble, the dot-com bubble and subsequent economic crash, and the ...
In an address to the nation from the White House today, President Donald Trump announced that no American or Iraqi forces were killed in the Iranian ballistic missile attack on U.S. and Iraqi forces on January 7. "No Americans were harmed in last ...
Iran has launched a multi-pronged ballistic missile attack on U.S. troops stationed in Iraq, according to a statement released by the Department of Defense on January 7. "At approximately 5:30 p.m. (EST) on January 7, Iran launched more than a ...
For the majority of my life, Oktoberfest has been just another tradition — like Cinco de Mayo and St. Patrick’s Day — that we Americans appropriated for the express purpose of drinking our freakin’ faces off. I didn’t know much about the festivities ...
