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Sheesh, this is the last wedding you'll attend where one of the parties was in a frat. Somehow, the groom's prior bad life decisions have become your problem and you're left trying to stop a rival frat's paintball attack on the eastern perimeter…
"Visit grandpa's farm," they said. "It'll be fun," they said. But now you have to figure out how to get the new puppy out of grandpa's old duck pond as the kids sob uncontrollably, as if there's some chance you're not going to get the dog o…
You awake in a dingy bar and blink the goo from your eyes. A quick scan of the faces inside lets you know that, wherever you passed out, it wasn't America — and the locals look particularly unhappy to see you and your squadmates who are also waki…
You were just walking the dog on what was supposed to be an uneventful morning when some eagle swooped down and lifted Fido into the air. Now you have to channel the spirit of the F-22 by sprinting across the rooftops of adjacent buildings, leaping …
You're running through the jungle, regretting the hard drinking and 15 minutes with the wrong local that led to you getting chased by an angry posse back towards the carrier whose silhouette is adorning your fresh T-shirt.But carriers are th…
There you are, sipping down lava-hot coffee to replace the warmth you lost while swimming through the Arctic waters and shadowing Russian subs when you hear a small click behind you. Is that the janitor? The Russian submariner you kidnapped? Or is i…
A situation that started with students protesting the government evolved into a failed coup d'etat and, consequently, the decimation of a once-thriving tourism industry. Protesters, feeling powerless in the face of violence, turned to the …
I can feel the gaze of the maintenance master chief beating down on the back of my neck from a mile away. At that moment, I exist in the paradox of being micromanaged by the front office while working a set schedule, flying sorties, and d…
In 1987, singer David Bowie played a concert in West Berlin, near the Reichstag. The performance was so loud, a massive crowd gathered on the East side of the nearby Berlin Wall to better hear his performance. He could hear the East Germans…
The once-proposed, hotly-debated November 10th parade in Washington D.C. has been put on the back-burner in the face of climbing costs. When it was first published that the price of the event was jumping from $10 million to $92 million, Secretary of…
Generals "rediscover" vertical envelopment every few years, and even fairly casual followers of military news are sure to have heard the phrase. Even still, it's a fairly wonky term that plenty of folks, even regular readers, military game player…
As if civilian fashion statements couldn't be any more incomprehensible, Urban Outfitters has planted its own ludicrous flag into the fashion world with their newest accessory: a
When America entered World War I, it brought more radical changes than just fresh troops and a huge manufacturing base. It also introduced novel tactics in the fight against venereal disease — the war for infantrymen's penises.
There is no gift more uniquely Afghan than something made of the mineral lapis lazuli. Since the dawn of human civilization, nowhere was the powerful blue rock more plentiful than in this now-war-torn country. The history of using this stone in jewe…
For the ten days immediately after you graduate Marine Corps boot camp, you'll feel like the world's biggest badass. That brief high comes to a crashing halt when you report to the School of Infantry. If you're a poor crayon-eater who signed an i…
It's time. You're entering your reenlistment window. Now you have to decide whether to stay in or get out, whether to take incentives, like bonuses and assignment of choice, or opt to get out and accept release from the UCMJ. So you go …
In July, 2017, Politico writer Zach Dorfman wrote an in-depth piece on Chinese intelligence gathering in…
The Armata family of vehicles, with the flagship T-14 main battle tank, were supposed to be the future of armored warfare, tipping the balance of conventional forces in Europe back towards Russia and ensuring the country's security and foreign migh…
Before you laugh it off and remind us all that Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War are just movies (and/or comics) and should not be taken seriously, let me remind you there are numerous examples of sci-fi and fantasy leading …
Ten years after Russia and Georgia went to war, the West on August 7 condemned Moscow's continued military presence in the Caucasus country's territory and reiterated support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.Earlier, Rus…