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How did I miss these two stories? Both were reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune back in the spring and both are fairly depressing. The Union-Tribune and the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, by the way, are both the local “papers of record” for regularly covering the goings-on within the Navy SEAL community, given that they are both […]
Being the ‘new guy’ — or woman — in any profession, on any team, or at a new school, can be a stressful undertaking. We all know it. We have all been there at least once in our lives. Take for example your trusty author, who grew up a Navy brat and attended five schools […]
According to the Nebraska-based Omaha World-Herald newspaper, a June 16th EF1 tornado that struck Offutt Air Force Base damaged 10 aircraft, including two E4-B Nightwatch airplanes. The E-4B is popularly known as the “Doomsday” plane because of its role in a potential nuclear war. The Air Force has four in its inventory, such that half of […]
According to radio station KJO 105.5, based in Maryville, Missouri, the father of fallen Navy SEAL Chief Special Warfare Operator Mark T. Carter has written a book meant to honor his deceased son, and to benefit the Navy SEAL Foundation, a non-profit that provides immediate and ongoing support and assistance to members of the Naval […]
In a prescient and poignant piece of commentary published on June 16th, 2017, in the San Diego Union-Tribune, retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer Ed Hiner described the toll that 16 years of continuous wartime deployments have taken on the Navy’s SEAL community. It is a devastating and cautionary picture he paints. Hiner describes the situation […]
The fire service, like the special operations community, is built on a foundation of tradition. Tradition informs everything from command climate and culture, to unit cohesiveness, to tactics, to day-to-day life in the unit (or the fire station). One of the most glorious traditions of the fire service is the Sunday breakfast. Any time we […]
This article was co-authored by Deacon David P., Society of Jesus, who will be ordained as a Jesuit priest in the summer of 2018. Deacon David attended Fordham and Santa Clara University, where he received degrees in psychology, philosophy, and theology. David also happens to be the first cousin of Frumentarius, which, per Catholic doctrine, secures Fru’s […]
At the outset of this article, it is imperative to state that this author has no inside information, other than what has been made public in the press, with regards to the nature of the wounds suffered during the June 14th mass shooting at the Republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, nor with regards […]
The setting is Singapore, early June 2017, at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional security summit in Asia. U.S. Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis has just spoken about the threat posed to the world by North Korea, as well as the potential positive benefit of the United States-China relationship on a host of […]
The U.S. Navy last week identified the SEAL killed over Memorial Day weekend as Special Warfare Operator 1st Class (SO1) Remington J. Peters, 27, of Grand Junction, Colorado. SO1 Peters was a member of the Navy’s parachute demonstration team, “The Leap Frogs,” and was jumping as part of Fleet Week in New York City when he […]
It’s that day again. It’s that day when the hurt comes back worse than usual. It’s that day when instead of a cookout on the beach, I sit alone and wonder why you left us. You were my dad, and now you’re gone. Who is going to give me ‘the talk?’ Who will be the […]
The Navy SEAL community and the wider U.S. Navy is heartbroken this Memorial Day weekend to have lost another one of our own. As reported by WABC New Jersey and the Associated Press, an as-yet-unidentified Navy SEAL died on May 28th when his parachute failed to open during a demonstration jump over the Hudson River, […]