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Cmdr. Cameron Yaste “observes the live-fire exercise event."

Navy Commander’s Scope Slip-Up Goes Viral

The USS John S. McCain’s commanding officer, Cmdr. Cameron Yaste, became a subject of online ridicule after a photograph showed him holding an rifle with its scope mounted backward.

Tim Kennedy on the "Shawn Ryan Show."

Tim Kennedy Talks First Kill As Sniper, Realities of Combat: ‘It is horrible. It is young. It is pain.’

“He was carrying a 1875 lever action British rifle,” Kennedy noted. This event led him to hang the rifle in his office, not as a war trophy, but as a reminder of the profound consequences of war.

Ukrainian Sniper Allegedly Sets World Record with 2.3-Mile Kill Shot using "Lord of the Horizon" rifle.

Ukrainian Sniper Allegedly Sets World Record with 2.3-Mile Kill Shot

“You have to [shoot] immediately because the wind changes constantly,” he said.

Colt M45A1 Close Quarters Battle Pistol (CQBP) - Review & Range Report

Marine Corps Officially Retires Last of Its 1911s

“The inventory of parts reads like a who’s who of the 1911 aftermarket business. In fact, the list is so diverse that it appears as if the Marines flipped through Brownells’ catalog and took one of everything,” according to an article about a new Marine Corps purchase of M1911 upgrade parts that American Handgunner published in 2002.

VIDEO: Marines Targeted in Brutal Attack by Teen Mob 

The marines trio was subjected to a vicious attack, with Hunter Antonino, one of the Marines involved, describing the assailants as “stomping on” and beating them.

Military Enlistment Declines as Obesity Numbers Grow

The military has expressed concerns for the future of recruitment following a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report stating the US is currently facing an epidemic of childhood obesity.  

HAVA San Antonio Family Day Honors Veterans

HAVA San Antonio Family Day Honors Veterans

Shooting those guns were veterans from the Vietnam War, Gulf War, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and military still serving in uniform.

Abu Khayr al-Masri and the Ginsu Missile

Abu Khayr al-Masri and the Ginsu Missile

A friend of mine was one of a group of five military officers who first developed the concept of arming an unmanned surveillance drone. Then these guys decided to hang a couple of missiles under the wings, and the whole earth moved just a little bit.

SOCOM Picks SIG Sauer MCX Rattler for New PDW

SOCOM Picks SIG Sauer MCX Rattler for New PDW

The U.S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, just selected the SIG Sauer MCX to be their new personal defense weapon, or PDW.

Bomb Squad Called to U.K. Hospital for Patient with Shell Stuck in Behind

Bomb Squad Called to U.K. Hospital for Patient with Shell Stuck in Behind

British military explosives experts rushed to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, in Gloucester, responding to a call about a patient with what appeared to be a small artillery shell stuck in his rear end.