A Few Observations on the Violent Protests in Los Angeles
Don’t let the legacy media scam you by calling the Los Angeles immigration riots “mostly peaceful.” They are not. They are mostly violent and exceedingly destructive.
Military
Two Days in June for the U.S. Army
June 6th, 1944 and June 14th, 1775 are two red letter dates to celebrate the U.S. Army each June. Yet, the Army doesn’t get celebrated enough, because it doesn’t self-promote as much as other Services
Men Must Be Purposeful
The services, despite the efforts of leftists, is dominated by the alpha-male. The Pentagon has rediscovered that fact.
Men of Iron: When Tank Crew Evaluators Rode the Beast
In an era before risk assessments, blast gauges, and traumatic brain injury protocols, Tank Crew Evaluators (TCEs) rode into live-fire gunnery on top of the turret—exposed and often holding on for dear life. It was a different time, a different Army. Some would say it was when tankers were men of iron riding machines of steel.
My poem for PTSD Awareness Month…God bless our military!
The Sentinel There exists a chamber in the garret where all the secrets dwell, slumbering beneath the dusty shrouds meant to conceal them for eternity. The passage, a narrow one, remains barricaded, padlocked and bolted, defended with the strength and stamina, the fervor and fortitude, the power and potency, the brawn and bravado of a …
Buh-Bye West Point
Assistant Professor Graham Parsons got a long screed on the sanctimony of his virtue-signaling resignation from the faculty at the United States Military Academy published in the New York Times.
Commemorating the 81st Anniversary of D-Day with Deployment Cigars
Today marks the 81st anniversary of D-Day, a defining moment in World War II when Allied forces launched a massive invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.
Echoes on Sacred Ground: America’s Clash, Conquest, and Reckoning with Native Nations
When the smoke of the American Civil War cleared in 1865, the United States was a nation still armed, restless, and redefining its purpose.
China (CCP) Update
The vast majority of the young Chinese students studying in America have been deeply brainwashed by the CCP’s propaganda since childhood. As college students, they are physically in America, but their minds are still in China echoing with the CCP.
Casting Lines of Peace: The Story of the Baghdad School of Fly Fishing
In the heart of war-torn Iraq, amidst the chaos of conflict and the austere surroundings of Camp Victory, a remarkable initiative unfolded—one that brought solace, camaraderie, and a touch of home to deployed service members. This is the story of the Baghdad School of Fly Fishing, a testament to the healing power of nature and the resilience of the human spirit.
The Cost of Betrayal: When a Nation Turns on Its Volunteers
The trust between a nation and those who swear to defend it was fractured when the U.S. military separated 8,200 service members for refusing to comply with COVID-19 mandates
Healing Waters: How Fly Fishing Restores the Wounds of War
For over 100 years, fly fishing has served not only as a sport but as a quiet, powerful form of therapy for veterans returning from war.
Memorial Day 2025
Memorial Day used to be on May 30th. Then Congress came in to help celebrate the day and shifted it all over the place by making it a Monday holiday. This was done to help federal workers and that’s fine with me, but it shows what congressional priorities are.
Petals of Honor
Petals of Honor In the heart of battle, the air thick with smoke, poppies rise through the scarred ground, born of blood and tears, and cultivated by the courage of the fallen. For those who have tasted the fire, brotherhood blooms from the ashes, roots growing deep in the soil of sacrifice, verdant and etched …
No Bravery: A Song Born from the Ashes of Kosovo
In 1999, while most of the world moved on from the headlines about the Balkans, soldiers and peacekeepers stepped into a devastated land where the horrors of ethnic cleansing still hung in the air like smoke.
A Lack Of Rationality
Liberals are getting more unhinged as time progresses. Now they can’t allow America to commemorate the founding of our Army.
The Geometry of Chaos: Why Complexity in War is a Deadly Gamble
War has always been defined by paradox: it is at once simple and impossibly hard. The fundamentals—move, shoot, communicate, sustain—are straightforward on paper.
Virtue-based Leadership, Part 5: Competency, Candor, and Virtue
Is leadership a process? Processes have inputs and actions/activities that produce outputs. In virtue-based leadership, the inputs are Virtue, Competency, and Candor. The outputs are Integrity, Truth, and Trust.
The Road to Kyiv: NATO, Kosovo, and the Long Shadow of a Broken Promise, Part 3
No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.”
~Carl von Clausewitz
Duty, Honor, Country… Why Family Matters Most
Family, is different than military service, no matter how honorable. A nation may thank you for your service, but it won’t sit beside your hospital bed when you’re broken.