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Surfers, Hippies, Hipsters, and Snowflakes — Counterculture In Special Operations
Special Forces students huddle together loosely in the cool grey light of dawn. Breath hangs on crisp morning air, as the students try to hold back a deep biting chill that fills the dwell time be...
Does Bigger = Stronger? Not Usually
Americans vision of strength and fitness shifted in the late 1970s. When guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno began appearing in films and on television, what we thought about strength...
How to Turn a Fleet of Main Battle Tanks into a Graveyard of Fossils
With victory of the forces of ISIS, the Government of Iraq has a window of opportunity to rest, refit, and restructure their forces. Unfortunately, their dependence on unvetted and politically moti...
The mission of the Ranger Regiment changed dramatically during my time there. Each change was accompanied by different tactical and physical requirements. Despite these changes, the basic physica...
Our friends over at Combat Flip Flops hit the keyboard to give you the Ranger Review of the Netflix original movie, War Machine. (All photos credited to Netflix) Damn. That was a good movie. So g...
What's the Secret to Passing Ranger School?
I get this question asked of me a lot and I've probably given this little spiel in varying levels of detail a hundred times over the years, from the time I was a cherry tab laying it down for my r...
