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by Greg Chabot During this time TF- 1/6 soldiers were living in three locations in the city. Troops were at the Provincial Governor’s office known as Blue Dome. And at the Civil Military Operations Center, which had Other Government Agency and Coalition Provisional Authority detachments as well as city offices. And …

by Susan Katz Keating“We weren’t Special Forces or Airborne. We were mostly just a bunch of draftee grunts who turned out to be damn good soldiers.” The soldiers proceeded cautiously through the jungle highlands west of Pleiku, near the Cambodian border, on the morning of May 18, 1967. The men …

The recipe was simple: make a fire; boil water in any metal container at hand; put the ammo in the boiling water; and cook for four to five hours. by Nikolay Shevchenko During the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Russian soldiers were often seen boiling their ammo for hours in a …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The Department of Justice has forced an uncomfortable truth into the open. A federal gun law that has survived for generations cannot survive the Constitution. The DOJ’s legal office on January 15 issued a memorandum titled Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 1715. The title is …

Ripped open by a grizzly and abandoned alongside a shallow grave, Glass dragged himself more than 200 miles unarmed through the 1820’s wilderness. by Jose Campos In the late summer of 1823, deep in the unmapped badlands of the Northern Plains, mountain man Hugh Glass was brutally mauled by a …

ANALYSIS by Susan Katz Keating The agent’s helmet fell off, and a loaded 30-round magazine fell out of its pouch, our correspondent tells us. He recovered his helmet, but not the ammunition. A lone federal agent running on ice never should become an object lesson in the workings of crowd …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The press community has weighed in on the Seth Harp affair. What they’ve offered is a reflexive defense and a missed opportunity to address journalistic ethics. The weigh-in comes in the form of a Jan. 13 open letter asking Congress to drop a subpoena issued to …

by Greg Chabot I was attracted to organized crime; it holds a mystique. But there is a dark underside outsiders don’t see. I was working for the railroad, and was assigned to a job in Toronto. I had to stop and get a work visa at the border. Thankfully that …

by Babatim  I couldn’t take being out of the game anymore, so off I went to touch the elephant. I had just cracked open the first beer of the afternoon when I heard the rockets coming in. Wise now to the ways of war I stayed in my lawn chair …

by Susan Katz Keating Russia hails the Oreshnik as unstoppable; but in 2023, seven of its hypersonic Kh-47M2 cousins were shot down by U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems. Moscow says the strike was payback, using its sharpest blade: the Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile. In the overnight hours into January 9, …