History

Vladimir Putin’s legions rolled into neighboring Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The Russian Special Military Operation was the largest attack against a European country since World War 2. What Putin clearly thought would be a brief but violent incursion wherein the locals welcomed his occupying forces with open arms has turned out to be something altogether different. Now pushing two years on, Ukraine has been a bloodbath for all involved.

The 1980 Norco shootout turned a bank robbery into a deadly gunfight that reshaped California law enforcement.

The common denominator for the vast majority of us is that it is essentially make-believe. We practice in the sincere hope that we may someday expire of old age, never having had to unlimber a firearm for real. And then there was FBI Special Agent Walter Walsh.

Jason Everman is the archetypal Renaissance Man. Dissatisfied with the ordinary and mundane, he has tasted fame, enjoyed the fellowship of warriors, dispensed death, and ardently studied life. Along the way, he has discovered what it means truly to live.

Sydney Sweeney has good genes. Those five words have recently touched off a hurricane of controversy amidst the cerulean-haired gender fluids who stand ever ready to be cataclysmically offended by pretty much anything. Full disclosure

In Arthur Jackson, we find an interesting dichotomy. An accomplished warrior rightfully venerated for exhibiting a level of personal valor unimaginable to most of us normal folk, he later found himself in an unexpected dark place.

When things went a little nuts one November day back in 2004 in Fallujah, SSG David Bellavia briefly unlimbered his inner monster.

Some people seam more inclined to scrap than others. One of those curious men who seemed born to fight was Joseph Drexel Biddle.

While CPT Salomon was working to stabilize a patient, he looked up and saw a Japanese soldier slip into his tent and bayonet a wounded American.