Independent military reporting for those who’ve served — and won’t stay silent.
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…
After decades of jokes, complaints, and GI distress, the U.S. Army has officially replaced the brick-like MREs and FSRs with a new individual field ration designed specifically for high-mobility operations like invasions, raids, and extended missions without resupply—promising a lighter, smaller, and, most importantly, easier-to-digest alternative. The new Close Combat Assault Ration (CCAR) is now…
A former U.S. Marine who once served at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison after being convicted of producing and collecting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from minors he manipulated online for years. Anthony Joseph Fritzinger, 25, of Middletown, New Jersey, was found guilty in September…
A 19-year-old U.S. Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton is facing multiple felony charges in Colorado after allegedly contacting and sexually exploiting underage children through social media apps. Authorities believe additional victims may still be unidentified. Pfc. Justin Ryder Simmons, a Marine meteorology and oceanography specialist from Windsor, Colorado, was arrested on June 16 at Marine…
A young Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton has found herself at the center of controversy after a highly emotional TikTok post went viral—drawing millions of views and sparking even more attention on her social media presence, lifestyle, and ties to adult content. In the video, the Marine appears tearful as she reveals she joined the…
A woman driving the back roads Camp Pendleton recently drew attention after being spotted in behavior that had at least one Marine doing a double take. Based on her online activity, she may be the latest military-connected woman turning to adult content platforms to earn extra income. Clues from her social media presence suggest she…
