The T&P Veterans Day Guide To Getting As Many Free Meals As Humanly Possible
The high holy day is nearly upon us. Veterans all across the country are sifting through their deployment photos for a profile picture and ironing their favorite Punisher logo t-shirt to prepare for...
View ArticleHere’s What It Looks Like When Your EDC List Is A Cry For Help
Recently, Recoil Magazine got an exclusive interview with former presidential advisor and bad-parking aficionado Sebastian Gorka. If you need a refresher, Gorka was the White House official surrounded...
View ArticleThe Top 8 Albums That Will Be Old Enough To Fight In Afghanistan This Year
Ah, the year 2000: When we all poked our heads out of our underground bunkers and found the Y2K bug hadn’t crashed the World Bank or caused all of our AOL free internet CDs to spontaneously combust....
View ArticleThere’s Something About MOLLE: A Guide To Making Your Civilian Life Tacticool
Since the first Revolutionary-era militias were born, the American troop has sought to be the best-equipped, best-trained, and most effective troop ever. Weapons, munitions, food, water: The average...
View Article6 All-American Blockbusters That Are Mandatory Viewing For Any July 4th Holiday
Every year July 4th comes around and, in between barbecues and emergency trips to the ER to get your fingers sewn back on, you must figure out how to fill in the long weekend. Sure, you can watch...
View ArticleThe lost lesson of Millennium Challenge 2002, the Pentagon’s embarrassing...
[shortcode-Op-Ed-disclosure] Back in 2002, nestled in that year and a half when Afghanistan was in full swing yet Iraq was still a twinkle in Donald Rumsfeld’s eye, the U.S. military held its most...
View Article6 types of dudes being mad in their cars on video
Editor’s note: This story first appeared in December 2017. The explosion of mobile technology, social media, and video has been baffling to me, a simple soldier. I was cool when it was just a bunch of...
View ArticleThe Military Has A Plan To Make Earth-Friendly Munitions
It’s not everyday you meet a hardened warfighter with a green thumb. Service members are mostly trained to crater enemy training camps, not plant daffodils. But that could change soon. Through the...
View Article‘Hooligans Of Kandahar’ Is The War Memoir We Need Right Now
I am not a fan of war memoirs, especially for wars I’ve been involved in. Reading about someone’s experiences in Afghanistan in 2011 when I was fighting that same war in 2004 leaves me more depressed...
View ArticleWhy ‘In The Army Now’ is the most realistic military movie ever made
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on January 3, 2017 If there’s one thing veterans on the internet love to do — besides melt down about stolen valor — it’s complain about inaccuracies in...
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