The Midnight Hour

In the quest to continuously better our weaponry, the M16 has gone through some significant changes. The adoption of the smaller, more versatile M4 carbine as our fighting rifle it has significantly broadened the options available to the rifleman. The quad-rail system from Knight’s Armament that replaces the handguards of the M4 has added the […]

I have received several emails and comments asking how to become a Marine Corps officer and the training involved. I thought I would take a moment to answer those questions with a brief explanation of how the system works. As a civilian, there are two basic ways to become a Marine Corps officer: […]

I PT’d fairly hard Friday afternoon. I lifted back and ran for 40 minutes. I felt good during PT, as I always do. That evening at dinner (my last meal for almost 3 days, as I would find out) I remarked to my boss that I still had that “post-PT feeling” even […]