Sunday, September 20

At 8 p.m. on Feb. 10, 1970, the darkness shrouding Fire Support Base Chamberlain in South Vietnam filled with moans, cries and the voice of a dead man. The U.S. Army was responsible for the broadcast. A psychological operations team supporting the 25th Infantry Division positioned loudspeakers around the base…

Military movies based on true stories already have an advantage over fiction: Sometimes the screenwriter barely needs to embellish anything. Films such as Hacksaw Ridge, Black Hawk Down and The Outpost depict events that seem almost impossible. Look beyond the two-hour versions, though, and the real histories are often bigger,…

Every active and reserve Marine now owes an annual Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) protective mask fit and seal test. The Marine Corps made the requirement service-wide in MARADMIN 384/26, signed Aug. 21 by Lieutenant General Jay M. Bargeron, the deputy commandant for Plans, Policies, and Operations. The change…

The .50 BMG wasn’t born out of a desire for subtlety. When John Moses Browning developed it in the late 1910s, it was to meet the U.S. military’s need for a heavy machine gun cartridge, capable of defeating aircraft, light armor, and hardened targets at extended ranges. As such, it was…

A deal to increase production of the Air Force’s B-21 bomber could be reached by March, Northrop Grumman’s CEO said. But a looming government shutdown could hinder talks, as one did last fall.Kathy Warden said no agreement has been reached about the $4.5 billion in reconciliation funding approved last year…

Update: Two federal officers discharged their weapons during the fatal encounter that culminated in the death of an American citizen Saturday in Minneapolis, several news outlets, including the Associated Press, reported Tuesday. Bystander videos collected during the confrontation suggested as much, but the detail was formally submitted in accordance with…

President Donald Trump was dead wrong to say our foreign allies “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines” in Afghanistan.In 2014, I was an infantry platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division, deployed to Kandahar, the hometown of the Taliban. Every Tuesday night, I would make a…

Chiappa Firearms is starting out the new year by introducing a new L-Frame Rhino chambered in .44 Magnum, the new Chiappa 60 DS series. This product expansion represents the brand exploring larger-bore revolvers in its unique bottom-barrel, low-bore-axis revolver designs. Built around the Rhino’s trademark bottom-chamber-firing geometry, the new .44…

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