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 ...
Wayne Capacillo considers himself an “average savage.” “Average” in that he’s a relatively normal family man who likes “Star Wars” and takeout and works in insurance adjustment; “savage” in that he is borderline obsessed with pushing his body and ...
The project started with a conversation over beers about a difficult topic: suicide. It was 2011, and Zach Iscol was catching up with his former commanding officer, retired U.S. Marine Colonel Willard "Willie" Buhl, when the conversation turned ...
Phillip Blanks served as a U.S. Marine with 1st Battalion, 4th Marines as a maintenance management specialist for four years. D'Artagnan Alexander is a barber by trade and a CEO/musician at Kontraband Entertainment. Neither man knew the other prior ...
Alex West threw his wetsuit and surfboard in the bed of his truck. He had spent the morning surfing off Del Mar on a picturesque Southern California day. After 15 combat deployments, injuries, and relentless stress, the only place ...
Major leadership failures contributed to the deaths of 76 veterans as a COVID-19 infection spread like wildfire through the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts, according to an independent investigation ordered by Gov. Charlie Baker. “Some of ...
In a democracy that fields a volunteer military force, war is an unequally shared burden. With less than 1 percent of the total U.S. population in the armed forces, the overwhelming majority of Americans are quarantined from the realities of ...
Americans often hear that the trauma experienced by military personnel and first responders can have far reaching consequences — depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicide to name a few. However, the indirect impact this trauma has on veterans’ ...
The weekend before she was diagnosed with COVID-19, Mackenzie Wolf was sitting on her couch in her apartment in Ellicott City, Maryland, when the intense fatigue and lightheadedness got so bad she started seeing black spots. “I remember sitting my ...
Jocko Willink, the retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer who commanded one of the deadliest special operations units in Iraq, took to his popular YouTube channel Friday to share “a glimpse of hope’’ for a less divided America. In the video, Willink ...
A Marine Corps veteran turned security contractor, John Carughi, unintentionally took the internet by storm after a video surfaced of him disarming a Seattle rioter who had stolen a police officer’s AR-15 from a destroyed squad car Saturday. The ...
Living in Washington, D.C., you find yourself visiting the same handful of sights every time you have an out of town guest. For the most part, you enjoy the time spent with your friends and family and less the actual sights of the city. The district ...
At 99 years old, World War II veteran George Blake knows what it’s like to go through an economic crisis. He grew up during the Great Depression, after all, and struggled to find a decent job in its wake. Now that the coronavirus pandemic has led to ...
Frederick Charles Willard, U.S. Army veteran and beloved comedy actor, died Friday from natural causes at age 86, Willard's agent, Michael Eisenstadt, announced. Willard was born on Sept. 18, 1933, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He graduated from the ...
Louis L’Amour published more than 100 novels — under his name as well as the pseudonyms Tex Burns and Jim Mayo — wandered the world, served in the military, and spread his joy of learning and reading. “That was Louis’s way, to find something of ...
Even a firefight against a North Vietnamese patrol in Laos could not keep Henry “Dick” Thompson and his squad from their Christmas dinner. Thompson and six other soldiers from the U.S. Army’s Military Assistance Command Vietnam, Studies and ...
Caleb Brewer didn’t get to complete his last mission as a U.S. Army Green Beret. In December 2015, he was injured in an improvised explosive device blast in Afghanistan, flown to a hospital in Germany, then sent home to the U.S. to recover and ...
In the 45 years since the Fall of Saigon, many stories of the Vietnam War have been told in books and movies. Of all the tales, there has been one perspective of the war that has been greatly underrepresented — the women who served. The 1960s ...
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 ...
Distilling liquor takes incredible patience. Even making a simple, flavorless vodka requires extensive study, expensive equipment, and a sizable stockpile of resources such as potatoes, corn, or grain. Those resources have to be made into a mash, and ...
COVID-19 has had a major impact on the U.S. and world economies. Many small, independently owned businesses have had to reevaluate how they operate during this trying time. So it’s not surprising that many veteran-owned businesses are also reeling ...
Suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have become widespread issues within the U.S. veteran community. According to the 2019 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report, the most recent data available, an average of 16.8 veterans ...
There was no knock on the door for Joe Kent. No black car with two uniformed officers coming to give him the news like you so often see in the movies. He was working for the government on a classified mission on Jan. 16, 2019, when he heard about ...
This article was originally published on March 11, 2020, by the U.S. Army. WASHINGTON — A former four-star general who served as the Army's vice chief of staff was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony March 10 at the White ...
Far too often, veterans who have proven themselves in the military find it difficult to articulate their learned skills in the civilian world. Jason Van Camp — a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, decorated Special Forces veteran, ...
For many soldiers and athletes, losing a leg would be the absolute worst thing that could ever happen to them. But retired Army Colonel Patty Collins chooses to look on the bright side. After all, it didn’t stop her from jumping out of ...
Geraint “Gez” Jones deployed three times to Iraq and Afghanistan with the British Army, where he served in the infantry. While he was initially a reservist and attending college, as soon as the war in Iraq started and his friends were deploying, he ...
Black Rifle Coffee Company has earned a reputation for its commitment to the well-being of veterans, first responders, and active duty military. From cooperating with OSD on its supply drops to partnering with Leupold Optics to engage donors for the ...
“Are we being well-served by our political leaders?” Daniel Gade asked rhetorically when thinking about his reasons for running for U.S. Senate for the state of Virginia. Gade made it clear that he didn’t exactly want to get into politics, but he ...
Monte L. Gould stood before an American flag in Las Vegas with his right hand raised. He spoke these words in front of a uniformed officer: “I, Monte Gould, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States ...
