“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.
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BY Larry Z Updated: January 2, 2024“You have to [shoot] immediately because the wind changes constantly,” he said.
Marine Corps Officially Retires Last of Its 1911s
BY News Wire Updated: June 27, 2023“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.
Canadian Armed Forces Transitions to SIG SAUER P320
BY News Wire Updated: June 19, 2023The initial delivery of 7,000 pistols is complete and soldier fielding of the C22 is in progress to replace the Browning 9mm adopted in 1944.
Military Enlistment Declines as Obesity Numbers Grow
BY News Wire Updated: April 12, 2023The 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.
Major Aleksander Tarnawski: The Unkillable Polish Commando
BY Will Dabbs Updated: February 12, 2023On January 8, 2022, Aleksander Tarnawski turned 101 years old. 101 years prior he had entered the world kicking and screaming in Słocin in the Rzeszów poviat in Poland. Like most of the young males of his generation, Aleksander Tarnawski soon found himself swept up in the war.
1SG Bradley Kasal: A Real-Live Superhero Amidst a Company of Superheroes
BY Will Dabbs Updated: November 13, 2022In the winter of 2004 a joint US, Iraqi, and British operation kicked off in Iraq. Local forces called it Operation Al-Fajr. Allied troops titled it Operation Phantom Fury. The world came to know this simply epic scrap as the Second Battle of Fallujah.
HAVA San Antonio Family Day Honors Veterans
BY News Wire Updated: November 9, 2022Shooting those guns were veterans from the Vietnam War, Gulf War, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and military still serving in uniform.
David Niven: The British Movie Star Commando who Won the Iron Cross
BY Will Dabbs Updated: August 6, 2022Today’s crop of actors is, with few exceptions, a bunch of vapid amoral losers. Their standard of accomplishment is running about naked and flying on private jets to A-lister conferences while telling the rest of us what we should be sacrificing to battle climate change. By contrast, David Niven was a real-live warrior.
Altama All Leather: Urban Boot Acceptable?
BY Clay Martin Updated: July 31, 2022Recently, I have fallen in love with a classic and it’s one that might fit your needs as well. Don’t write me off immediately because the name of the boot is the Altama Leather Combat Boot, colloquially known to service members as the “All Leather”.