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Nothing good is ahead for the women of Afghanistan. It's another layer of terrible on top of an already bad situation. The really bad part is the sheer inevitability of

Posted this before but it was way too dark, lightened it up to bring out the weapon because it's an interesting piece. A paratrooper version of an M249 Squad Automatic

A guy I worked with once stopped seeing his sex worker girlfriend because he found out she'd been in some porn. This never made any sense to me. I'd known

Balloon jump, Thailand 1993. You could usually get some coconut ice cream after the jump from a local entrepreneur's food cart at the corner of the drop zone, served on

I had a side-hustle working at the English as a Second Language center in college. Remember feeling a great sense of pride following the peaceful resolution of the 2000 US

Spent a lot of my career chasing down terrorists. Have receipts for high-value targets from multiple terrorist organizations (Jemaah Islamiya, Abu Sayyaf Group, al-Qaeda, et al.) in multiple countries, as

I got to plan and lead a brigade raid on the 4th of July once, Iraqi Special Operations Forces brigade consisting of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Force and the 36th Commando

I see @RadioFreeTom taking a bit of criticism for his article pointing out Trump's lack of manliness, to include personal attacks at Tom as an "academic" (and therefore unqualified to

A few words on maturity.I went to Iraq with a unit of mostly experienced older (compared to most units) dudes, average age 38 (I used to have to brief this)

When I was at FT Lewis from '92-'98 I used to spend some time with the local Thai and Cambodian immigrant communities. The Thais because I was working on my

First memorial service I attended in 1st Special Forces Group was shortly after arrival in '92, a man who'd drowned doing a river-crossing in Malaysia. He'd gone over with another

My unit went out almost every single night in Iraq in '07 and almost every single night they tried to hit it with a VBIED, a car bomb, and never