Summer is upon us, and the heat reminds us that the sun is trying to kill us. Nowhere is this more obvious than when we are training on the range. The cliché “hydrate or die” becomes a reality, and serious people do serious things to manage the summer challenges. One
Own the night. I have heard that mantra repeatedly over my career in Special Operations. Our ability to operate under the cover of darkness translates to total domination of our objectives against fully armed terrorists – and no casualties for our team. I have conducted the containment of an objective
If you are a real coffee lover, you’ve most likely had the dream of owning a coffee shop at one point or another. You’ve got that entrepreneurial spirit, a love of fresh ground beans, so why not? Of course, the only thing you don’t have is the knowledge of how
Among natural disasters, little can match a wildfire for ferocity, speed, total havoc, and sheer terror factor. Wildfires pushed by high winds will race forward faster than you can run. A big wildfire easily jumps across firebreaks and highways and produces savage heat, igniting trees and homes even before flames
The year is 1944; the D-day invasion starts with the crossing of Normandy, which signaled the end of the war in Europe, and the United States thought to itself, you know what we’ve been missing in our lives, Nazis! They began to assemble what we all know today as Operation
July 1, 1973. As the clock closed in at 1 AM, the sedan slowly turned down the familiarity of Trent Street towards the couple’s home. The sedan stopped in their driveaway; they were ready to get inside after their long day. The driver, Colonel Yosef “Joe” Alon, an Israeli military attaché, spent many long nights at social functions as part
Patriotism once was a core tenet of public education in the U.S. The school day began with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, and American history was taught with in a positive light. Recently an increasingly critical view of the United States and its history are being taught, and
Americans are known for many things, a few of those being owning enough guns to fill a swimming pool, being overly patriotic, and finding any way possible to avoid using the metric system. Now besides throwing a pig’s skin around and grilling burgers on the 4th of July, we Americans
Your memory isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it system of your brain. You’re not locked into a certain level of remembrance throughout your lifetime and that’s it. You can improve your memory if you have the tools, discipline, and motivation to do so, and below are some excellent tips and tricks to make
