Ask Stew: Getting Ready to Move from Infantry to Special Ops A young man in the Marine infantry is considering transferring into Navy SEAL training after his initial four-year contract.
Here's What Being 'Mentally Ready' Means for Special Ops Selection While training, working even when you do not feel like it and pushing toward your goal, you’ll develop a mental readiness...
How the Tactical Population Should Tackle Testing, Keeping Up with Health and Job Performance “Tactical athletes” often are left to maintain their fitness levels on their own unless they’re in a unit with regular...
Ask Stew: Gut Checks Your future in any tactical profession will require you to succeed in challenging selection programs with high attrition...
What Comes Next After You Accomplish Your Primary Goal? Time to Assess Yourself Even when you have accomplished a task you have prepared for a long time, the training continues.
Tactical Fitness: Gut Checks and Building Mental Toughness Your journey to becoming a tactical athlete will require long days and nights of training and getting comfortable with being...
Air Force Special Tactics Officer: Overview Special tactics officers (STO) can become career officers of Group Command level and lead in the challenging Air Force...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...