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• The Pentagon Has Forward Deployed Your Social Security Number October 6, 2026
  There are few traditions more sacred in the American military than mandatory cyber training. Somewhere, right now, a staff sergeant is clicking through a government module explaining that personally identifiable information is precious, passwords are sacred, suspicious links are dangerous, and leaving your CAC unattended will apparently cause Beijing to annex Ohio. Then the Pentagon […]
  Tammy Pondsmith
• Things War Movies Made Me Think I’d Do in the Army October 6, 2026
  Based on watching war movies, these are some of the things I thought I’d be doing in the Army, but didn’t. Peeling potatoes as a form of punishment. Standing guard, in full dress uniform, along with another sharply dressed troop, in front of an important Army building, giving rifle salutes to generals and colonels. Yelling […]
  Nick Perna
• What Military Tattoos Record October 6, 2026
  By Kevin Fuller A simple title leads this article because, in some ways, it really is that simple: tattoos and the military have always gone together. For generations, sailors crossed horizons most civilians would never see, returning home with tattooing traditions, techniques, and imagery collected abroad and bringing them back into civilian life. Raymond Chandler, […]
  Special Guest
• Look Back, But Don’t Stare October 5, 2026
  “Look back, but don’t stare.” Those words come from U.S. Army Ranger Jon Jackson, and there is a lot of wisdom packed into that short sentence. Especially for those of us who have reached the point in life where there is considerably more road behind us than there used to be. Looking back is natural. […]
  Charles Faint
• Could the U.S. Military Confiscate America’s Guns? October 5, 2026
  From time to time, someone will tell me that they are worried that the president or Congress will order the U.S. military to confiscate all firearms from private citizens. They have this fear because every so often, someone proposes a deceptively simple solution to America’s gun problem: ban the guns, send the military door to […]
  Dave Chamberlin