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On this particular day, I was feeling quite fed up with all the fucking trackers. I went on a rant. And then… by Cliff Wade Back in Garrison, 2015 The Army is big on trackers. They track unit’s training requirements, numerous administrative actions, leave dates, fire extinguisher expiration dates, duty exemptions, …

by Susan Katz Keating The movie just dropped. The files keep coming out. We’ve been covering this for years. Here’s your field briefing. With a major UFO film hitting theaters, the timing feels almost scripted. But at Soldier of Fortune, we didn’t wait for Hollywood to greenlight a script before …

The Bureau spent years chasing flying saucers. Then it stopped. One memo explains why the public never trusted that decision.by Jose Campos The Roswell story was high on the public radar when the FBI’s Dallas Field Office fired off an urgent cable to Director J. Edgar Hoover. An object had …

by Martin Kufus Decades after it happened, the incident has wide name recognition. To some, “Roswell” suggests a crashed spaceship and a government conspiracy. To others, it’s a hoax for tourists and the gullible.  Myth or reality, the “Roswell Incident” fell within a bigger picture. The Nuclear Triangle By the …

by Austin Lee In the pre-dawn haze of June 13, 1933, a quiet field near Magenta, Italy erupted into chaos. A bell-shaped craft, 10 meters wide, tore through the night sky. Its metallic hull glowed like molten starlight before slamming into the Earth and leaving a smoldering crater. Locals whispered …

by Martin Kufus The Pentagon is adamant that no flying saucer crashed in July 1947 near Roswell, N.M., and that no aliens nor advanced technology were recovered and secreted away. It’s an odd coincidence, nonetheless, that the world’s most famous UFO-related incident occurred near the world’s only nuclear weapons.   By …

by Susan Katz Keating The Pentagon went into lockdown Thursday morning amid an active hazmat incident, a source inside the building told Soldier of Fortune. The response involves three corridors, comprising approximately one-quarter of the building. Floors and corridors have been evacuated. This is no precautionary exercise, the source said, …

by Cliff Wade Iraq, 2007 Much more often than not, our missions in Iraq were meticulously planned out well ahead of time. However, there were occasions when opportunities were presented that did not allow enough time for applying the proper troop-leading procedures, and we just winged it.  One such instance …

by Robert Fallon The men of Easy Company could hear the hill before they owned it. Machine guns hammered from above. Rifle fire cracked across frozen Korean ground. The Chinese troops dug into the high ground had the advantage every infantryman wants. They had elevation, cover, and clear fields of …

“So this is how it ends. We were trapped.” Hunted by Russian drones, targeted by tank fire, and cut off from escape, a foreign volunteer recounts the day he expected to die in Ukraine. by Jonathan Stumpf A loud bang, a metallic clang, then blue smoke pours into the small …