(Editor's Note: The following is the fourth chapter from Jared's book It'll Buff Out.) Chapter 4: Bad to Worse Ramadi, Iraq OP Hurria Continue Reading
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Reversing the Worst Military Recruiting Challenge in History
Second Lieutenant Matthew Weiss, USMC I was born in 1998. As the very first members of our new generation took their initial breaths of life, the Continue Reading
“First Taste of Action”: War in Iraq
Editor's Note: The below article is an excerpt from the book No Shit Here I Am: A Soldier's Stories of Life During and After the War on Terror by Continue Reading
Explosions and Rude Awakenings in Ramadi
(Editor's Note: The following is the first chapter from Jared's book It'll Buff Out.) Chapter 2: Rush OP Hawk Ramadi, Iraq September 29, Continue Reading
Writing War: How Writing Saved Me from Myself
by GySgt L. Christian Bussler (Ret.) I had thought that my days of war were over. I had thought that I had enough and given all of this shit up a Continue Reading
To The End of the Earth: A Glimpse into the Tenth Army’s Cave Fighting in Okinawa in 1945
An adapted excerpt from To the End of the Earth by John C. McManus All Image Credits: Penguin Random House In 1945, Tenth Army inelegantly Continue Reading
A Vietnam Veteran Honors the Lives of the Fallen
by Michael Reagan On April 9, more than fifty years ago, I was on my way home from Vietnam. A Chinook picked me off the ground at the DMZ, under fire. Continue Reading
Book Review: A Series of Flashbacks: Darkness Within
by Tracie Sudermann ________________________ Using an autobiographical style for her first book, A Series of Flashbacks: Darkness Within, author Continue Reading
Marine Corps Vets and Social Workers Seeking Contributors for “In Their Words”
Marine Corps Vets and Social Workers Seeking Contributors for “In Their Words,” A Book Written By, With, and For the Military and Veteran Community on Continue Reading
Debunking the Myth of the “Broken” Veteran
by Sean Parnell I am a U.S. Army combat veteran. In 2006-2007, my infantry platoon in Afghanistan regularly exchanged fire with Taliban fighters. We Continue Reading
On Grossman: How a Pseudoscientist Pushed Our Understanding of Killing Back 20 Years
by Seth Allard This first appeared in Hosanna Fukuzawa's blog on September 10, 2022. It is republished here with the author's Continue Reading
Total Resistance – When Your Government Goes to Hell
Imagine, you wake up one morning, turn on the coffee pot and look out your living room window. In the distance, you can see buildings ablaze, you can Continue Reading