The Havok Journal | Military & Veteran News, Commentary, Culture

• Congratulations, You’ve Met Everyone on Earth November 5, 2026
  The intellectual laziness of sweeping generalizations There are roughly eight billion human beings wandering around this planet, and apparently some people have managed to meet every single one of them. It’s an extraordinary accomplishment. Between working, sleeping, eating, scrolling through TikTok, and arguing with strangers on Facebook, these remarkable individuals have somehow found time to […]
  Dave Chamberlin
• The Power of a Patch November 5, 2026
  “What are you doing?” a little boy asked me as I tapped an Army patch hanging in the doorway at our gym. He, like many kids, was hanging out, playing with toys as his mom or dad worked out. “I’m just saying ‘Hi’ to my buddies. This is one of my Army patches. The Army […]
  David Hartmann
• I Can’t “Fully Grasp” What it Means to Serve November 5, 2026
  I wrote this back in 2017 – When my youngest was on his first deployment, mirroring his older brother’s choices – (although upping the ante from 11B to 68W) lol. With a 14-year age difference and yet the same trajectory into the military. Different experience and time of course but as a mom? Holy Shit […]
  Shelly Harlow
• The Veterans Who Don’t Feel Like Veterans November 4, 2026
  There is a question veterans ask one another that is almost never phrased directly: Did I do enough to count? It appears in quieter forms. Where did you deploy? What unit were you with? Were you outside the wire? Did you see combat? Beneath those questions is a private hierarchy of service, one that separates […]
  Charles Faint
• It was just like the Boy Scouts… November 4, 2026
  By an Anonymous USAF Brat “Mom, where does this go?” I was standing in the kitchen of our quarters at Langley AFB, Virginia, in October 1979. We had just PCS’d from Clark AFB to what would be Dad’s last assignment during my junior year of high school. Everything we had with us in the Philippines […]
  Special Guest