Snipers train to become expert marksman with a deeply ingrained understanding of the principles of ballistics. MOA (minute of angle) is the unit of measurement that snipers use in school to measure accuracy. The greater the distance the sniper is shooting from, the lower the accuracy, as ...
The preferred weapon of insurgents and terrorists has become an improvised explosive device, or IED. You might call it a homemade bomb or a booby trap. Whatever you call it, an IED is relatively simple to make, easily hidden and very destructive. Soldiers, civilians, as well as ...
There’s a different version of my life — one that seems much more likely — where I become a sailor in the Turkish military. That’s the path I was on for a long time, and it’s a very respectable one. A ton of my friends are still in marine school, but in my heart, I alw...
The preferred weapon of insurgents and terrorists has become an improvised explosive device, or IED. You might call it a homemade bomb or a booby trap. Whatever you call it, an IED is relatively simple to make, easily hidden and very destructive. Soldiers, civilians, as well as ...
“My unit was really diverse, in every way that word can be defined,” said the former sergeant with 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment. “I always felt a movie would be too narrow of a lens to capture our experience in Iraq. A game on the other ha...
Since that first exposure to the 1911, I had always wanted my own. However, I was a college student at the time and had no money to buy one, so that plan went on the back burner. Over the years after purchasing several revolvers and hunting rifles, I thought it was time to get on...
Leatherneck: The nickname Leatherneck has become a universal moniker for a U.S. Marine. The termoriginated from the wide and stiff leather neck-piece that was part of the Marine Corps uniform from 1798 until 1872. ... On parade, it kept a Marine's head erect. ...
He said. “I am sorry to have disturbed you, I am simply taking a walk down to the riverbed to fetch myself a drink of water.” “Indeed,” said the Tyrannosaur, “a fine way to spend what is proving to become a very warm and pleasant day. Might I trouble you to also tell me...
Marine battalions in Les Cayes opened fire on 1,500 protestors who were part of a national strike and area rebellion. Twelve Haitians were killed and 23 wounded in the massacre. Worldwide backlash from this violence helped to eventually inspire the end of the U.S. occupation there. [Pictured...
“You know, part of why Kamala is getting so much support is that if Trump wins, that Epstein client list is going to become public,” Musk claimed. “And some of those billionaires behind Kamala are terrified of that outcome.”