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By Will Grant Billy Waugh is a true American Hero. Ask anyone who knows him, and they’ll tell you the same thing. Many of his enemies are dead, and more than a few of the friends he’s served with long-since retired. In many circles, Waugh is legendary—as a Green Beret, as a CIA paramilitary, as the man who nailed Carlos the Jackal. “If you look at the dictionary definition of patriot, there’s a picture of Billy there,” says Ray Calafell,...

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Robert Young Pelton heads deep inside the jungle of Burma to meet rebels,  mercenaries, missionaries, and monks. All are engaged in the world’s longest running civil war. At the center of this conflict are the Free Burma Rangers, led by a former US Special Forces soldier known as The Father of the White Monkey. Nerdah Mya is probably the most famous Karen commander. Before I interviewed General Bo Jo and the other generals, they had not been interviewed by Western...

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Mick Gould has been a martial artist since he was 14 years old. He created the martial arts discipline Nagasu Do, and he’s worked as a bodyguard, marital arts instructor, and technical advisor (martial arts, close combat, firearms) for the Hollywood film industry. He’s been a part of eleven films and has worked with a slew of actors that includes Johnny Depp, Val Kilmer, Marlon Brando, Tom Cruise, Al Pacino, and Samuel L. Jackson. We wanted to find out if...

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Robert Young Pelton heads deep inside the jungle of Burma to meet rebels,  mercenaries, missionaries, and monks. All are engaged in the world’s longest running civil war. At the center of this conflict are the Free Burma Rangers, led by a former US Special Forces soldier known as The Father of the White Monkey.   I ask Doug why he calls his operation “Free Burma Rangers.” Like many of Doug’s decisions, it is intuitive and simple. “I made up the...

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The longest sniper shots on record are amazing feats of marksmanship. The men who made the shots got about as much performance out of their weapons systems as possible. But not everyone’s convinced those shots happened. So we ran the ballistics, talked to a few experts, and had look for ourselves. By Will Grant A McMillan TAC-50 rifle A British sniper currently holds the publicly known record for a confirmed kill shot. As a Corporal of Horse in the British...

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The modern theater of asymmetric warfare has changed our equipment, the ways we fight, and the ways we protect our soldiers. From ballistic underwear to MRAPs, our military has responded in countless ways to the warzone environments we’ve faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. A third of all combat-related injuries requiring medical attention are traumatic brain injuries. Between 2001 and 2011, 320,000 soldiers suffered from TBIs–most of those  the result of improvised explosive devices. The need to better protect our warfighters’...

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