When Is Using Your CCW a Mistake?

Security can be defined as a state of being free from danger or threat. With the liberalization of concealed carry laws, a great many citizens have jumped on the bandwagon and taken a big step toward ensuring their personal safety. Although a concealed handgun does give you greater potential to c...

By Mike Boyle

Training 101 – Self-Evaluation

More than likely, every time you’ve ever been tested, you had some form of evaluator. Be it a teacher with an answer key or a coach holding you to a standard. Serious firearms training is no different. There has to be some form of standard you’re held to. You can’t always train under the ey...

By Travis Pike

Exercises Put Army’s Newest Multi-Domain Formation to the Test

FORT BLISS, Texas — When it comes to defending the vast Pacific Ocean, the Army is usually going to take a back seat to the Navy, at least until the fight hits land. But in an effort to increase its advantage in the Joint fight in the Pacific, the Army has created the 7th Infantry […]

By Eric G

The Ensign Who Drove USS Aylwin Through Hell

This content is copyrighted and may not be reproduced without the express permission of GunsAmerica.com and BAAANG Media LLC. The Ensign Who Drove USS Aylwin Through Hell Pearl Harbor dropped a half-crewed destroyer into bloody chaos, and a young Ensign with just eight months of active-duty exper...

By Will Dabbs

Dressed to Survive: How an Army Decision Aid Is Improving Cold-Weather Readiness

NATICK SOLDIER SYSTEMS CENTER, Mass. – Where there is little rest, comfort, or compromise in the world’s most austere cold-weather environments, a soldier’s clothing is more than just a uniform – it is survival. For leaders, clothing decisions are tactical decisions, and the Medic...

By Eric G

Operation Anthropoid: Killing the Butcher of Prague

Who was the most horrible person in all of human history? Some might claim their mother-in-law. I’m personally crazy about mine. However, I’d like to dig a bit deeper than that today. Tragically, the competition for that particularly dark superlative is fierce. I would say that human beings a...

By Will Dabbs, MD
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