Marines
Hegseth’s body man’s qualifications questioned
SECDEF Hegseth’s office is in the midst of a couple of scandals. We talked recently about his troubles with using the app Signal for potentially sensitive information, but there’s also an IG investigation in leaks to the media. This has led to a few people in Hegseth’s inner circle being fired or reassigned. Of those […]
Dakota Meyer reups with the USMCR
It’s been a decade and a half since Dakota Meyer left active duty. Shortly after he left the service he was called back into uniform to go to the White House to get the Medal of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan during the Battle of Ganjgal in 2009. He’s now returning to the service, […]
Marine Corps News
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. Every Marine A Drone Pilot: Individual Lethality To Go From Meters To Kilometers General highlights how drones and small guided munitions are about to give each Marine exponentially more reach than the traditional rifle. Joseph Trevithick The increasing prevalence of weaponized drones, especially first-person-view (FPV) kamikaze types, and other man-portable precision munitions […]
Fired F-35 pilot speaks out
2023, an F-35 made the news when the pilot ejected from it in North Carolina and the plane flew pilotless for another 12 miles. You might be interested in the final outcome. COL Charles “Tre” Del Pizzo was flying the fighter, familiarizing in preparation to take command of VMX-1 squadron in Yuma, Arizona, starting […]
Marine vet accused of faking deployment for free flights
A Marine veteran that currently works as a Federal Air Marshal stands accused of several crimes in relation to defrauding an American airline out of hundreds of free flights. I have a lot of questions as to how this happened. Chief among them is how did the TSA/Federal Air Marshals Service not know that this […]
Valor Friday
Ralph Talbot was born in 1897 in Massachusettes, and would use natural gifts for both academics and athletics to eventually attend Yale. There he received some basic military officer training as part of the school’s artillery corps. These programs to train Ivy League men in the ways of military officership were the immediate predecessor to […]
Valor Friday
It’s not every day that one of the naval aviators in training at Pensacola gets pulled up on stage to get the nation’s highest award for individual bravery not in the face of the enemy. That’s what happened to Marine Corps Captain Joshua Watson a few weeks back. This award was in regards to an […]
Gene Hackman, former Marine, dead at 95
Legendary Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman has been found dead at the age of 95. Curiously, he was found dead with his wife and his dog, but the cops are saying there’s no signs of foul play. Stars and Stripes has the story. Before acting, Hackman spent a stint in the Marine Corps, serving in China […]
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