Independent military reporting for those who’ve served — and won’t stay silent.
It sounds like a fantasy: anonymous, no-strings-attached sex offered freely to American service members, often with promises of secrecy and zero expectation of reciprocation. But what if it’s not a fantasy at all? What if it’s a trap? In an age where smartphones and social media dominate daily life, U.S. military personnel have become increasingly…
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MI — A Sunday morning worship service at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, turned into a scene of chaos and tragedy when a former U.S. Marine drove his vehicle into the chapel, opened fire with an assault rifle, and set the building on fire—killing…
Authorities have identified the man accused of opening fire at a crowded waterfront restaurant in Southport, North Carolina, as a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who legally changed his name several years ago. The Shooting On Saturday night, diners at the American Fish Company restaurant in the Southport Yacht Basin were met with sudden gunfire. Police…
The U.S. Army’s elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment—better known as the “Night Stalkers”—lost four of its own during a nighttime training flight last week. Among the fallen: Chief Warrant Officer 3 Andrew Kraus, a decorated pilot, Marine veteran, husband, father of two, and the son of Mission BBQ co-founder Bill Kraus. The MH-60 Black…
Three active-duty U.S. military personnel are under scrutiny after publicly mocking, celebrating, or implicitly justifying the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The backlash has grown loud enough to prompt a direct response from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who called the conduct “completely unacceptable.” Marine Officer Recruiter Toasts Kirk’s Death With Beer Emojis Captain…
Near the windswept desert of Twentynine Palms, California — home to one of the largest Marine Corps bases in the world — a military couple is attracting national attention. But it’s not for valor, deployment stories, or veteran entrepreneurship. It’s for their involvement in a controversial and highly explicit online venture that’s challenging the boundaries…
In a major shake-up of the Pentagon’s drone defense efforts, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Army to dismantle its Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) and stand up a new warfighting organization: Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF 401). The move comes as part of the Trump administration’s wider campaign to restore…
An Idaho woman, married to a Marine, says that even after losing a significant amount of weight, undergoing surgeries, and living a lifestyle most would consider far from traditional, she still struggles with body confidence. The woman — now in her early 30s and a mother of two — grew up in a military family…
She was one of the first women in the Marine Corps to serve on the front lines in Iraq as part of the pioneering Lioness program — a select group of female Marines embedded with combat units to perform a mission male Marines could not. She deployed to Iraq twice. Her first deployment in 2005–2006…
A social media personality closely tied to the Marine Corps is once again drawing attention—and raising eyebrows—for content that some say directly undermines the Corps’ push for professionalism and discipline. This week, the woman behind the account @sierrasunshine12 posted a photo of herself on Reddit appearing to flaunt Operation Ironclad, the Marine Corps’ campaign to…
