Finding a partner whom you relate with better than anyone else is probably one of the best feelings humans experience during their lifetime. To make marriage more interesting, couples often…
The military community was shaken to hear of the passing of R. Lee Ermey, America’s favorite Gunny Sergeant, famous for his portrayal of Senior Drill Instructor …
In 1910, one of the most elaborate pranks to date was played, successfully, against the British Navy. Irishman and professional prankster, William Horace de Vere Cole, devised a plan where…
A picture is worth a thousand words. While memes certainly don’t cover the entirety of WWII in Europe, they provide a good summary of what happened. Use them to explain…
Nobody wants to hear the phrase, “suck it up, buttercup.” But there’s a reason for it outside of being pla…
In the civilian world, waiting feels like hell. Soccer moms throw a fit if they wait more than three people for a coffee, that asshole driving behind you honks if you don’t accelerate sooner than 0.003 seconds after the light turns green, and some …
Words can’t be expressed how grateful deployed troops are when they receive care packages and letters from back home. A swarm of grown men and women will hover around them just to get whatever goodies they can out of them.
I’ve seen peo…
The military exists by its own rules, both the stated ones like the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the cultural ones like “First sergeants have to use knife hands and the word ‘behoove’ as often as possible.” Some of these rules are frust…
Technically swearing is prohibited in the military. But should it be? Maybe not!
Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice prohibits “indecent language” or that which can offend a person’s decency, modesty, or propriety or is mor…