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It's a reality no one likes to face: accidents happen in wartime, and sometimes the wrong people get killed. Once the fog of war is lifted, someone has to sort out what happened and why, no matter how much the truth hurts. There are many infamous, …
Now, don't panic, but there is a lethal limit of hot sauce. Well, at least there is a limit in theory. There's no record of a person ever drinking hot sauce to death, and very few cases of lethal pepper exposure. But you're not going to run into …
The hardest part about starting a business is finding the seed capital to get the ball rolling. Like the first step of a thousand-mile journey, it's the hardest and most important. For many veterans, owning their own business is the way to financia…
Military units are team-oriented by necessity and design, but when troops leave the service, they often find themselves isolated and working by themselves. The team dynamic is gone. Veteran service organizations are much the same way. Even with an i…
It's easy to see American military members in uniform and sort of lump them all in together as a single unit – that's kind of the point of part of their lives. But it's only a part of their lives. Once the uniform is off or they're out of the …
Working in a hotel is no joke – those jobs are hard. Think about how hard you worked in basic training under the latrine queen, using a dirty sock to dust the day room, and how clean the barracks had to be to pass a drill sergeant's inspection. E…
We in the west have a tendency to focus on the European tensions that led to World War II. And while the rise of Mussolini and Hitler caused a massive conflict that rocked Europe and Russia, open fighting was going on in Asia for years before German…
It's probably common knowledge that when Old Glory is flying at half-staff (or half-mast), it indicates a period of mourning, but unless it's Memorial Day or a president has just died, people might not know why the flag is at half-staff. Who gets …
With the upcoming 'Area 51 raid' this month, the question on everyone's mind is whether we're all gonna se…
The U.S. and Soviet militaries in the Cold War both understood the importance of the Arctic. Their submarines moved under it, their bombers moved over it, and both sides kept radar stations to track each other's planes and potential missile launche…
Warfighting, like any line of work, gets much easier when you have the right tools for the job. A long barrel and high powered optics may make you a lethal opponent in the long-range shootouts of Afghanistan, but that same loadout could quickly beco…
Here in the modern world, many of us are more aware than ever of how the media can shape our perceptions of reality. While most debate about "perception management" these days is relegated to the arena of political mudslinging, the truth is, there…
The problem with being a rising star in a dictatorship where the only rules are the whims of one individual is that you tend to attract a lot of attention. This, of course, could put a target on your back. If you outlive the dictator, the purges, an…
The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster dates all the way back to 565 A.D. when a writer named Adomnan recounted a tale about Saint Columba coming upon local residents burying a man near River Ness. According to the tale Adomnan recount…
In August 1942, Joseph Kennedy, Jr. died aboard a B-24 Liberator loaded with explosives – and almost nothing else. He was part of Operation Aphrodite, an all-out effort to destroy reinforced Nazi weapons bunkers. But there was one bunker in partic…
West Point graduate Sean Mullin (Amira & Sam) returns to writing with Semper Fi, a film about a police officer and Marine Corps Reservist who is faced with an ethical dilemma when it comes to helping his brother in prison. …
It's a mystery to this day.
You ever imagine the guts it takes to be an infantryman trying to kill a tank? Sure, we develop a new missile to make the job easier every few decades, but that still leaves a dude in 35 pounds of body armor going up against a 41-ton tank. And the i…
For the past 75 years, the French Senate has claimed Paris' lush Luxembourg Palace, former home of Marie de Medici, mother to King Louis XIII, as its home. During that entire time, rumors swirled about a large bust of Adolf Hitler, the man who once…
The newspaper Stars and Stripes has an interesting little niche in its place in American journalism. Wherever the Armed Forces of the United States may go, Stars and Stripes reporters might just go along with them. The idea of such a paper can be tr…