Twenty years after Medal of Honor recipient Michael Monsoor gave his life for his brothers, we still carry his sacrifice and the memory of all our Continue Reading
Military
December 19
By an Anonymous USAF Brat It was cold. Not the New England kind of cold but the bitter, biting, wind-driven cold on an overcast day that fit what Continue Reading
Excerpt from Costa’s War
By Mark Rubinstein Editor's Note: This excerpt from Mark Rubinstein’s Costa’s War follows a young soldier’s arrival in Vietnam in 1968 and the Continue Reading
A Million Zeroes Still Don’t Add Up to One
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung once wrote something that should probably be posted in every headquarters, corporate boardroom, and executive office in Continue Reading
Stop Building the Enemy’s Biography
By Juan Pablo Vivaldi Remy Every staff I have served on eventually does the same thing when intelligence grows thin: someone starts building the Continue Reading
The Pentagon Has Forward Deployed Your Social Security Number
There are few traditions more sacred in the American military than mandatory cyber training. Somewhere, right now, a staff sergeant is clicking Continue Reading
Things War Movies Made Me Think I’d Do in the Army
Based on watching war movies, these are some of the things I thought I’d be doing in the Army, but didn’t. Peeling potatoes as a form of Continue Reading
What Military Tattoos Record
By Kevin Fuller A simple title leads this article because, in some ways, it really is that simple: tattoos and the military have always gone Continue Reading
Could the U.S. Military Confiscate America’s Guns?
From time to time, someone will tell me that they are worried that the president or Congress will order the U.S. military to confiscate all firearms Continue Reading
All Those Crosses
All those white crosses stand in a rowon nameless hills in Europe,in fields of France,on beaches too.All those white stones stand in a rowon the green Continue Reading
Childhood Lessons Only a Military Brat Learns
By an anonymous USAF brat As I sat there on the couch shoving another backup mag wrapped in TactiGami™ into my go bag, I zipped it closed and Continue Reading
Demons of Our Actions
By Trey Tull Our lives are composed of the consequences of our actions, the good, the bad, and the neutral. I believe the pattern of life is for us Continue Reading