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Who Really Gives A Sh*t About The Air Force’s Dumb A-10 Tweet?
Sometimes, Twitter can be great; most of the time, it sucks. Case in point: the idiotic non-scandal today over a...
What Kim Jong Un’s Crazy Elite Bodyguards Teach Us About Threat Deterrence
The recent diplomatic talks between North and South Korea, in advance of an historic Singapore summit between President Trump and...
Military Page Admin: I Wish I’d Handled That Dino Puppet Video Differently
This article by Steven Mayne originally appeared on Military.com, the premier source of information for the military and veteran community....
Trump’s VA Pick Faces A Dilemma Most Troops Would Love To Have
I’m about to suggest something that would’ve been unthinkable to me as an E-3: Put yourself in the admiral’s shoes....
Because Of The Military, I’m No Longer A Self-Conscious Pooper
Have you ever taken a poop while other people watched? If you haven’t… could you? If you’ve served in the...
I Tried To Make Women Marines Tougher. It Was The Hardest Fight Of My Career
This is an excerpt from “Fight Like A Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines Are Trained” by retired Marine...
In Defense Of The M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle
After reading the article, “The Marine Corps’ Rifle is Super Expensive – And No One Knows Why,” I spent a...
A Quick Pro/Con List Of The Cable News Host Being Floated To Lead The VA
It’s a brave new world in 2018. President Donald Trump’s administration has been largely characterized by the same freewheeling, no-fucks-given...
Trump Says He’s A Master Negotiator. He’ll Need Every Ounce Of It With North Korea.
In the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, I led a Combat Reconnaissance Aircrew in an intelligence collection mission...
Here’s How The Corps Still Needs To Change A Year After Marines United
A year has passed since the Marines United social media scandal broke in the news, and despite the very real...
Here’s Everything We’d Need To Make Armed Teachers Effective School Defenders
Editor’s note: Since the school shooting that killed 17 students and teachers two weeks ago in Parkland, Florida, a debate...
Shipboard Service Is Harsh. The Navy Isn’t Preparing Recruits For This Reality
“It’s a floating prison.” This is how a sailor described serving aboard USS Shiloh, and the sentiment seemed to be...
The Army Needs To Change The Way It Prepares Soldiers For Higher Education After The Military
When I was in high school, I had a GPA of 1.6 and barely graduated. Nonetheless, my mother always believed...
What The Commercial Airline Industry Can Teach The Marine Corps About Risk Management
Recent comments from the commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller, made clear that 2017 was far from a...
Trump Might Not Be Giving Us A Parade We Want, But It’s The One We Deserve
Desert Storm was one of the most lopsided conflicts in modern history. For several weeks in the spring of 1991,...
Take Your Military Parade And Drop It In Your Gold-Plated Toilet
I’ll make this short. Nobody likes a long, forced display of emotion. Except Donald Trump. The stock market, previously the...
A Message To The High School Teacher Who Called Service Members The ‘Lowest Of Our Low’
“Think about the people you know who are over there. Your freaking stupid Uncle Louie or whatever. They’re dumb shits....
Troops Were The Accessory Of The Night As Politicians Tried To Out-America Each Other
Who wore it better? No, not Melania’s Dolce and Gabbana, or the Democratic women’s black garb, or the Republican women’s...
Real Patriotic Veterans Don’t Need To Be Obnoxious About It
For many veterans, patriotism is a force that gives their service its meaning. Most of us hold that love of...
What We Talk About When We Talk About NFL Playoff Games Airing On AFN
On Jan. 20, six gunmen armed with AK-47s and grenades stormed the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan. Over the next...
Political Neutrality In Uniform Is Hard And Getting Harder, But It’s Still Your Duty
Above a stack of voting assistance pamphlets near my office at battalion headquarters, there’s a poster of George Washington with...
Pics Or It Didn’t Happen: Warfighting In The Age Of Videotaped Atrocities
Several years ago, when I was still in the Army, a young private in my company did something highly unusual....
The Problem With ‘Let Marines Be Marines’
Proceedings, the monthly magazine of the U.S. Naval Institute founded in 1874, stands among Scientific American, The Atlantic, and Harper’s...
It’s 2018 And SFC Alwyn Cashe Still Hasn’t Been Awarded The Medal Of Honor. Why?
Three. That’s how many times Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn C. Cashe entered the burning carcass of his Bradley Fighting Vehicle...
How The Marine Corps Prepared Me To Run Across The Country In 100 Days
On July 22, I ended my active-duty service with the Marine Corps and started a 100-day run across the country....
