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There’s a fair argument to be made that America has lost its passion for space flight. Long gone are the days of massive NASA budgets and school kids gathered around television sets to watch the latest launch, and as the agency itself struggles to find its place in an increasingly commercialized theater, some folks have […]
After months of debate and conjecture, President Trump announced on Monday that he would direct the Pentagon to establish a sixth branch of the United States military tasked specifically with space based and orbital defense. This new branch, which will take on the space role currently occupied by the Air Force’s Space Command, has seen […]
You take a rusty piece of scrap metal, a hack saw, a file, and you get to work. After hours of cutting, grinding, and sanding spread out of a week’s worth of days, you’re left with a knife that’s probably not quite as good as one you might buy at Walmart for just less than […]
A Navy air-cushioned landing craft prepares to enter the well deck of the USS New York in the Mediterranean Sea, May 24, 2018. The amphibious transport dock ship is supporting U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Lyle Wilkie Watch a Navy air-cushioned landing craft in action […]
If you’ve ever taken the time to sit and read a bodybuilding magazine from cover to cover, you’ll likely come to a few interesting conclusions: the first is that advertising often tries really hard to pretend it’s expert analysis, and the second is that supposed experts in the fitness field often contradict one another, and […]
Air Force Airman Jasmine Castaneda fires an M240 during weapons training at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., Dec. 20, 2017. Castaneda is assigned to the 9th Security Forces Squadron. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Colville McFee Watch U.S. military personnel qualify on the M240 in the video below:
Army Spc. Dillon Weitzel fires at targets on an M2 .50-caliber machine gun range at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, April 26, 2016. Weitzel is a paratrooper assigned to the 25th Infantry Division’s 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), Alaska. Air Force photo by Justin Connaher Watch U.S. Army soldiers train on the .50 […]
Amid heightening tensions between Russia and European nations, the government of Norway has approved plans to more than double the number of U.S. Marines permitted within their borders as a rotational training force. Marines have been conducting cold weather training in Norway since January of last year, and while many have attributed the American presence […]
Most Americans today have grown up in the strange bubble provided by U.S. military dominance around the world where our domestic concerns about war rarely extend beyond the political sphere. We don’t worry about things like winning or losing wars. We may lament things like the cost, the politics, or the toll it takes on […]
Members of the visit, board, search, and seizure team for the USS Gonzalez operate a rigid-hull inflatable boat in the Gulf of Aden, April 26, 2016. The guided-missile destroyer is supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. Navy photo by Petty Officer […]
The United States has spent years touting the Lockheed Martin sourced F-35 as the most advanced combat aircraft ever devised — which resulted in some ruffled feathers when Lockheed pitched an F-35/F-22 hybrid fighter it claimed would be superior to the incredibly expensive (and perpetually troubled) F-35 program. The thing is, despite being chock-full of […]
Last week, a number of videos emerged on social media showing an off-duty FBI agent dancing in Denver nightclub, punctuated with an impressively executed backflip and stomach wrenching display of poor weapons handling when his pistol fell from its friction retention holster onto the floor. To make matters worse, as the agent hurried to regain […]