Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction (SPIE) flights offer a unique way to get troops into and out of terrain that a helicopter may not be able to land on. To the untrained observer, SPIE flights might look like a helicopter simply lowers a rope, warfighters clip on with … [Read more...]
Skydiving for sport or recreation is among the most popular ways mankind has devised to laugh in the face of our own mortality. As insane as it might sound to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, somewhere in the neighborhood of 350,000 jumpers execute close to 3 million jumps … [Read more...]
Way back when I was a kid, long before I became a college dropout that needed the Marine Corps to help me find my way, I watched 1986's "Top Gun" and knew I wanted to be a fighter pilot. No, it wasn't Tom Cruise's charm, nor was it the allure of playing topless volleyball with … [Read more...]
Just about every special operations command in the world uses live fire drills to give its operators realistic combat experience before actually getting into the fight, though as numerous videos around the web have shown, not every nation's military adheres to the same safety … [Read more...]
Immediate Threat CQB - ITCQB is a hybrid system, developed through time by Eli Feildboy, the founder of Project Gecko. Tight and confined spaces or L-shaped rooms can be difficult to clear with a teammate without flagging each other. In the second installment of the "Pro's guide … [Read more...]
We all know that in a battle between tanks and cars, tanks always win. That's why the U.S. Army opted to utilize the M1-A2 Abrams Battle Tank over the Chevy Aveo for combat operations in the Middle East and why you don't see much in the way of "Mad Max" style armored sports cars … [Read more...]
Anyone with an internet connection and access to YouTube already knows that Russia is like the Upside Down from "Stranger Things," in that it looks like the developed world but seems to operate under a very different set of rules. Watching crazy dashcam footage from inside … [Read more...]
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