Phrases to Live By (That let you live your life like a boss)
As a mental health nurse, it’s part of my job to help coach people through some of the toughest times in their lives. People whose lives often aren’t really going…
Product Review: Topo Runventure Running Shoe Review
Topo Athletic is a relatively new company, founded in 2012 by Tony Post, former CEO of Vibram. They make several models of athletic shoes ranging from cross training and lifting…
Product Review: Combat Flip Flops Tuck Tuck
First Impressions: These look great and if you take a closer look they actually tell a story with all the small details they’ve got etched into them. These aren’t cheap,…
Product Review: IceBug: “Winter Runner-Land” by Derek Dutton of Ranger Smash
Although the season has passed, it still looks an awful lot like Christmas. Unfortunately what this season usually means for runners is not only a Christmas tree with a plethora…
Former Animal Company Marine Received the Silver Star
Diatribes of a Knucklehead 151219 My Book “They Were Heroes” has plenty heroes, but today I would like to inform others of another hero, one of my former Animal Company…
The Largest Armed Reserve Police Force in the World – America?
Diatribes of a Knucklehead 151217 American has over 10 million veterans under the age of 65 (see ref); men and women who are trained with weapons and defensive tactics. What…
Cadets, a Limo & Delta Force; Stealing the Navy Goat, a True Story
It’s Army-Navy week where the MILITARY Academy and the Naval Academy (there’s a reason behind the names) ramp up school spirit culminating at the annual Army-Navy football game. One of…
On Veteran’s Day, Thank You to Vets & Americans
There are 22 million vets in America today, 7% of the US population. Veteran’s Day is America’s way of celebrating her living veterans. A veteran is an American who at…
Product Review: LALO Zodiac Recons Black Ops Shoes
My interest in the LALO Zodiac Recons got going after my buddy Mike, a running fiend, introduced me to them. With all of his talk about the LALO, I was…
22 to NONE Solutions
As another ruck march is completed raising the awareness to issues of veteran suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as to show the support we have for each other…