“Think we can go around?” We were parked on a dusty turnout. An abandoned red and white building, hacienda-style, sat tangled in weeds next to a pair of large, graffiti-scrawled, corrugated metal warehouses. Piled tires lined the sagging barbed wire fence, and a white semi-trailer, also overgrown with weeds, sat between us and the highway. Hermosillo was just over the … [Read more...] about The Devil You Don’t Know Chapter 4
An Air National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk crashed offshore near the Navarre Beach campground in the vicinity of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida on Tuesday, March 10. According to Captain Barry Morris, spokesman for MARSOC at Camp Lejeune, the Marines from 2nd Raider Battalion and aircrew from 1-244th Assault Helicopter Battalion of the Louisiana National Guard were conducting … [Read more...] about 11 Marines and Soldiers Presumed Dead in Helicopter Crash
The sun was just starting to turn the eastern horizon gray when Jim and I went through rousting everybody out. My guys were pretty well ready for it, though none of us were getting up with the alacrity we might have even a few years ago. Joints protested, backs stiffened. Men get old fast in this business. Harold and his people, on the other hand, weren't so sanguine about … [Read more...] about The Devil You Don’t Know Chapter 3
Alejandro "Omar" Treviño-Morales, code-named "Z42," who took over the Los Zetas Cartel after the arrest of his brother, Miguel Treviño-Morales, was arrested on March 4. He was captured in the municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia, part of Monterrey and the richest area of Nuevo Leon—traditionally a hangout for narcos from the Juarez Cartel and Beltran Leyva … [Read more...] about Another HVT Goes Down as Los Zetas’ Z42 Arrested
Venezuelan President Nicholás Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, have been pointing to the U.S. as the boogeyman to unite Venezuela under their single-party rule for years. As Venezuela's economy has begun an accelerating slide toward collapse, not only have the government's repressive measures to try to keep a lid on the collapse (as well as deflect blame) intensified, … [Read more...] about Venezuela Moves Against American Citizens
Mexico has scored another coup in the narco-insurgency. On February 27—in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan—Servando "La Tuta" Gomez was rolled up by Mexican police. "La Tuta," also known as "El Profe" (The Professor) because of his past as a teacher, was the "spiritual" and operational leader of the Caballeros Templarios, the Knights Templar Cartel. The other such leader, … [Read more...] about Knights Templar Cartel’s “La Tuta” Captured
A lone sheriff's department vehicle showed up just ahead of the Harmon-Dominguez trucks. The firefight had been over for just over an hour. There were fire-trucks and ambulances just behind the sheriff's vehicle. The deputy pulled up, got out, took a look around at us, walked over to the shattered cars and trucks full of bloating MS-13 corpses, and went back to his car without … [Read more...] about The Devil You Don’t Know Chapter 2
ISIS' branding and propaganda has been enormously successful since they seemingly came out of nowhere to seize the city of Mosul last summer. Islamist groups from Yemen to Central Asia to Libya are purportedly pledging allegiance to the group and flying its black flag. Washington, the Kremlin, and Beijing are all warning of the danger of this next iteration of Tamerlane's … [Read more...] about ISIS, the Stalking Horse
“We’ve picked up a tail,” Larry announced. I didn’t have a good shot at the rear-view mirror from the passenger side, so I twisted around in my seat to get a look behind us. Unfortunately, from the middle of the pack of SUVs and box trucks, it was hard to see much behind us on the freeway. “Where?” He glanced at the rearview again. “About two car-lengths back from the rear … [Read more...] about The Devil You Don’t Know Chapter 1
I've written about the problem with the growing amount of dick measuring in military and veteran circles before. But the drama never quite seems to stop, and at every turn it seems to get more out of control. On February 17, we shared a link to an article by Spencer Walker and Daniel Racca at Warfighter News, concerning the history of Eddie Ray Routh, the accused killer of … [Read more...] about The Warfighter Foundation Wrongly Smeared
On the night of January 18, 2015, the mother of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was trying to contact him by telephone. When, after repeated calls, she couldn't get him to answer, she went to his apartment accompanied by Argentine federal police. Repeated ringing of the doorbell wasn't answered. The door was locked from the inside. The police called a locksmith who unlocked … [Read more...] about The Death of a Prosecutor: Iran in South America
Certain media outlets have given a great deal of airtime (and have been making a great deal of political hay out of it) to the story that, upon leaving Sana'a, Yemen, the MSG (Marine Security Guard) detachment surrendered their weapons to the Houthi militia. This was supposedly because they could not take the weapons on the commercial aircraft that provided the last flight out … [Read more...] about No, the Marines Did Not Surrender Their Weapons
