by Austin Lee The IWI Galil ACE has earned its status in the competition world as a top contender in the modern AK platform, much to the dismay of diehard original AKM purist competitors. Merging the legendary reliability of the Kalashnikov design with modern enhancements, it has become a favorite …
Read More »Death in the Desert: A Texas Cowboy’s Gruesome Encounter
by Bobby Dee Editor’s note: Bobby Dee first made his appearance in SKK’s previous story about Bodies and Gunfire in the Texas Wilderness. Now Bobby writes about his encounter with a bad scene at sunrise. The sun wasn’t even high yet, but the heat was already pressing down on me. …
Read More »Shooting on the Move: Tactical Training That Saves Lives
The benefits of training to shoot while moving. by Gary Paul Johnston Traditionally, cops have been trained to shoot while standing still. By now it should be pretty clear where this is going, and going should be the name of the game when the going gets tough. When I became …
Read More »Rescue at Sea: Americans Tossed Overboard During Effort to Help Fellow Veterans
They call it the world’s toughest row, one that brings voyages to remember – especially this one, for a team that encountered high waves during their 2022 expedition. That’s when an All-American team of four military veterans were rescued after their boat capsized during a 3,000-mile Atlantic rowing challenge. Fight …
Read More »Blood on the Highway: The Cartel War to Seize Power in Sinaloa
by Jose Campos A growing alliance of criminal groups has emerged to wrest control from Los Chapitos. The firefight began on the main federal highway in Mexico, and it didn’t let up for hours. Long after dark, the sound of gunfire echoed through Mocorito in Sinaloa, turning the stretch of …
Read More »Operation Nimrod: When the British SAS Rescued Hostages From Iranian Embassy Siege
by Robert McAlister Editor’s Note: Six armed men on April 30, 1980 stormed the Iranian embassy in London. The men were Iranian Arab terrorists campaigning for sovereignty of Khuzestan Province. They took hostages, and issued demands. Enter the British Special Air Service (SAS) and Operation Nimrod. British crisis expert Robert …
Read More »WATCH: C-17 Globemaster Leaves Nellis Air Force Base in the Dust
When C-17’s leave the runway in the dust. Two C-17 Globemaster III aircraft out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, flew into the Nevada Test and Training Range to support a training exercise for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). The massive cargo planes, part of the 62nd Airlift Wing, …
Read More »Lone Wolf Terrorists and Soft Targets: Predicting the Next Wave of Attacks
The fact that a high-profile lone wolf attack may not be based on any clear motive doesn’t worry some terrorist groups. They will still claim the perpetrator as one of their own, to gain maximum publicity. by Jeffrey D. Simon For many Americans, the events of September 11, 2001, were the first …
Read More »A Hair-Raising Ride in Pleiku
by James Donzella Somewhere between my 14th and 15th birthdays, my dad taught me to drive a stick shift. He thought it was important that I knew how. My first car was a stick-shift Ford—fast. It earned me several tickets. A few years later, drafted into the Army, I found …
Read More »Nurse Breaks Her Silence About Deadly Poison at Chernobyl
by A.R. Fomenko VIENNA BUREAU — On the grim anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown, a Belarusian nurse breaks her silence – not about the original disaster, but about its haunting encore. “Svetlana,” now retired, was a nurse at a radiation treatment ward in Gomel, Belarus. In 2022, as war …
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