Being able to start a fire is one of the oldest and most elemental survival skills you can have. Striking a spark on your own is empowering, and failure is embarrassing, to say the least. It doesn’t matter if the plan of the day involves firing up the grill for a gameday barbeque or creating …
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There were a lot of badasses in World War II, but few stand above the crew of the USS Johnston, the outgunned, outnumbered Navy destroyer that charged into the teeth of a Japanese naval line during the Battle off Samar on the morning of October 25, 1944. Despite the wall of steel in front of …
The former head of the history department at the U.S. Military Academy called the Confederate flag a symbol of “treason” in a recent interview. View original article
Welcome to That One Scene, a semi-regular series in which Task & Purpose writers wax nostalgic about that one scene from a beloved (or hated) military movie. Sooner or later in the military, you will stand guard duty, and when you do, you will be bored out of your mind. And as it turns out, …
WASHINGTON (AP) – More Americans disapprove than approve of how President Joe Biden is handling waves of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and approval of his efforts on larger immigration policy falls short of other top issues – suggesting it could be a weak point for the … View original article
