One might think that heavily-armed soldiers would be immune to animal predation. However, nothing distracts a man like artillery and the prospect of being ripped to pieces by hot sleeting steel.
Will Dabbs
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The IDF Mekut’zar Carbine: The Extraordinary Israeli Improvised Rifle
Updated: October 22, 2023Certain dark days are burned into our national consciousness. For us, that day was obviously 9/11. On the morning of 7 October 2023, the nation of Israel had their own 9/11.
Stephanie Louise Kwolek: The Frustrated Physician Who Invented Kevlar
Updated: October 22, 2023Stephanie Kwolek’s inventions have legitimately changed the world. It was obviously a pretty great thing that she never followed through on her plans for medical school.
Dr Dabbs – Rod Serling: The Voyage into the Twilight Zone
Updated: October 12, 2023The Twilight Zone really did make you think. Like most truly revolutionary artistic endeavors, the show was the product of a singularly creative mind. Rod Serling was a remarkable man indeed.
Dr. Dabbs – Killing Gandhi: The Beretta M1934
Updated: January 7, 202478 at the time of his death, Mahatma Gandhi was admittedly both old and thin. However, three of these underpowered little bullets fired from an assassin’s gun still nonetheless extinguished his mortal light in short order.
Violette Szabo: The Alpha Spy
Updated: September 28, 2023Violette Szabo was indeed a rare patriot. Her story of selfless sacrifice for the cause of freedom should inspire all of us today.
Dr. Dabbs – Dueling Doctors: The Curiously Violent Origins of the AMA
Updated: September 24, 2023Reality is strange. The American Medical Association technically had its earliest origins in two physicians who tried mightily to snuff each other’s mortal flicker at the muzzle of a handgun.
Dr. Dabbs – Bella Twin: The Tiny Little Woman and the Really Big Bear
Updated: September 15, 2023When confronted with such an enormous predator at such close range, Bella and her buddy wisely chose to disappear into the wood line and hide in hopes that the big animal might just pass them by.
The Battle of Khasham: When Russians Fought Americans and Lost Hard
Updated: September 10, 2023The fight lasted about four hours. One allied SDF fighter was wounded. No US troops were hurt. The butcher’s bill on the receiving end of all that pain has since been vigorously disputed.
Dr Dabbs – The Winchester Lever-Action Anti-Aircraft Gun
Updated: September 1, 2023With the aircraft about 300 feet off the ground, a .30-caliber bullet pierced the bottom of the fuselage, passed through Rollins’ right thigh, and then lodged in the left side of his face.