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Military lessons come in handy for a family living with MS

Following every training exercise and mission I was ever a part of in the military, participants gathered to conduct an After-Action Review (AAR). Although the process has been for...

It may only be one life with multiple sclerosis, but it’s mine

I’m drowning. Well, not literally. I’ve never even come close to actually drowning — not even with last year’s pneumonia and the occasional aspiration of liquids. I’m just using it...

Doing everything we can to maintain cognitive reserve with MS

Contrary to popular belief, I did not attend this year’s Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) annual meeting just for the buffets and to loot the vendors. I was there ma...

Mr. Hegseth's Macho Fantasy

Front Line Friday #26: Radio and Comms Hardware Beyond the Issued Kit

Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is a gear week, and the topic is the radio hardware nobody issues you: the accessories, the earpiece choices that actually fit your ass...

BFG Monday: Every Movement Has a Cost

A Soldier pauses at a trail intersection beneath a canopy that blocks what little moonlight remains. Through night vision, familiar terrain has changed. Colors are gone. Depth is h...

On-Board Reporting on the Woodies Invitational

The 49ers beat writers don't get to suit up in the red and gold on Sunday. The Giants columnists don't get to take at-bats every day, but as Latitude 38's racing editor, I get to c...

From fixing fighter jets to helping veterans

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Giving Time Back to the Rifle Company

By First Lieutenant Max Steinbach and First Lieutenant Collin Bergstrom, United States Marine Corps First Lieutenant Max Steinbach is a Marine infantry officer serving as the compa...

Front Line Friday #28: Field Training Programs

Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week's editorial is on what separates field training programs that produce street-ready officers from those that produce paper compliance. F...

Conquering the Last Tactical Mile

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – Imagine a car breaking down and having to be transported 7,000 miles for repairs. Now imagine that vehicle is a critical asset needed to keep families and neigh...

BFG Monday: Your Gear Is Not a System Just Because It Fits on the Same Belt

By John Chapman Executive Director, Task Force 70 Foundation Photo courtesy of John ChapmanAsk most cops what makes a good loadout and they will start naming gear. A better belt. A...

Hussain: Close calls but columnist always makes deadline

I have been writing this column since 1994. In the recent past it has been rather easy to transmit the column (and occasionally other articles) to my editors at The Blade. It used...

Front Line Friday #30: Cold Weather Patrol Gear

Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is a gear week, and the topic is building a cold weather patrol layer system that keeps you functional across a twelve-hour shift inste...

Towing Gliders in a Waco UPF-7

Towing Gliders in a Waco UPF-7 Air Facts Journal I not only loved flying the UPF-7, but also loved sitting in it next to the grass runway between tows, with a cornfield at my back,...

Look Out Below!

Look Out Below! Air Facts Journal The National Intercollegiate Flying Association brings together collegiate aviation programs from across the country to compete in precision flyin...

Governor Sherrill: Establishing a Direction By Taking Care of Our Veterans

TRENTON – Even the hapless Herbert Hoover once envisioned a chicken in every pot, while the establishment in New Jersey has seemingly long drearily dreamed of a Trump in every town...

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Bill Mauldin

 I wasn't too sure that I would be able to write up this post for today due to unavoidable circumstance here on the home front, but as I started to make it yesterday, I found it to...

Buy It For Life Camping Chairs: Seven We Trust After a Season of Abuse

There is a corner in my garage that I try to avoid looking at too closely. It is home to a collection of broken, but potentially fixable camp chairs, that if combined with the... T...

After Five Years as an Ultralight Columnist, Here’s What I Would Actually Buy

I’ve tested almost all the shiniest new toys and fads, but there’s only a few things I’d spend my own money on. The post After Five Years as an Ultralight Columnist, Here’s What I...

Behind the Laptop: Thanks for the Memories Rock Island Grand Prix

As I sit here behind my laptop on a Monday evening, it is a different feeling for the first time since 2004. I’m not exhausted from the five-hour drive home, the two days of beatin...

The Empty Bridge Myth: How the New York Times Substituted Gossip for the Army Command Chart

by cotobuzz at CDN - When U.S. bases are under fire, national security reporting shouldn’t read like a lifestyle feature. By treating bureaucratic vacancies as total institutional...

Reflections after 39 days of enforced inactivity on crutches

One day during my recent time on crutches, when I’d been on the phone for two hours, my wife walked by and said, “Who is this man and what have you done with my husband?" writes gu...