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Marine Corps Jungle Medicine Course: ‘The Light in a Dark Time’

Deep in the jungle, there’s no medevac, no backup, and no room for mistakes. At the Marine Corps Jungle Warfare Training Center, instructors teach Navy corpsmen to be the light in a dark time. For 10 relentless days, they learn to survive, treat the wounded, and move through terrain that wants …

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SIG Knew P320 Could Fire Without Trigger Pull, Lawyer Says

by Susan Katz Keating and Austin Lee Firearms manufacturer SIG Sauer has known for years that its P320 handgun could fire unexpectedly and without the shooter pulling the trigger, according to an attorney who sued the company last year in a wrongful death case involving the pistol. A SIG engineer …

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Shooting Sprees Proves What We Already Know: Gun Laws Don’t Stop Criminals

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating Another day, another tragedy involving a firearm — this time in New York, where a shooter opened fire in a state that boasts some of the strictest gun laws in the country. Once again, the laws that are couched as meaning to “protect” innocent people did …

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‘You Will Wind Up Dead’: Inside a Combat Drone School in Russia

How do you learn to fly a kamikaze drone? In Russia, one answer lies inside a secretive training program run by Octagon, a drone school linked to remnants of the Wagner Group. Though Wagner technically no longer exists, Octagon claimed to continue running combat drone courses in Russia, even after Wagner …

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Shotguns vs. Drones: A Clay Shooter’s Guide to Defeating Enemy Swarms

by Austin Lee In the escalating drone wars, where fiber optic and First-Person View (FPV) drones threaten soldiers and civilians alike, one man is turning the art of clay shooting into a battlefield advantage.  Lieutenant Marco Angelelli, an Italian Air Force reserve officer and Italian Clay Pigeon Shooting Federation (FITAV) …

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Air Force Global Strike Command Tells Units to Stop Using M18 Handgun After 21 Year Old Airman is Killed

by Susan Katz Keating The U.S. Air Force’s Global Strike Command has ordered all units under its command to immediately stop using the M18 Modular Handgun System, citing an ongoing safety investigation. The directive follows the death of an Airman while on duty Sunday morning, an Air Force official confirmed. …

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The FBI Failed to Examine Evidence in Clinton Email Investigation

by Susan Katz Keating The FBI failed to fully investigate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and her mishandling of highly classified information while serving as Secretary of State, according to a newly declassified government report. The report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General was released on Monday …

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‘Our Business Now is North’: British Army Col. Tim Collins’ Eve-of-Battle Speech in Iraq

“Be ferocious in battle and magnanimous in victory.” The British Army’s Col. Tim Collins gave this eve-of-battle speech to 1 Batt., Royal Irish Regiment, on 19 March 2003, immediately before they went to war in Iraq. Men who were there say they never will forget it. “There may be people …

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We Test the RAD Propulsion Electric Drive System Aboard a Zodiac Boat

by Friedrich Seiltgen I was invited to take control of the boat… During Special Operations Week in Tampa, Florida, Soldier of Fortune publisher Susan Katz Keating arranged a test demonstration with RAD Propulsion of their RAD 40 extended-range pack electric drive system, mounted on a Zodiac Milpro MK 5 inflatable …

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