U.S. Marine Corps

Arlington Police Bought Two Drones, Which They Hope to Start Using Very Soon

Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration released a list of all the city and state entities who have applied for a license to fly unmanned aerial drones. That list was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), an organization tha ... More >>

Radio Host Mark Davis Thinks Allowing Women in Combat is an "Outrage Against Humanity"

Yesterday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the U.S. military will drop its ban on women serving in combat. For many, this was a long overdue, a commonsense step and an acknowledgment that women are fighting in combat in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and have been for more than a de ... More >>

Tiger Style

This Week's Events for the Culinary Inclined, December 5 - 11

Saturday, December 8 Saturday brings the 4th Annual Holiday Market at the White Rock Local Market. In addition to the usual bounty of local produce, meats, cheeses, baked goods and other culinary treats, there will be more than 50 artists pedaling their crafty creations. The Dave Burris Group will ... More >>

The Women of Dallas Are Armed and Dangerous, Thanks to Mama Jeanie

Her own shooting career derailed, Jeanie Almond has become Dallas' go-to teacher for shooting's fastest-growing market: women.

Ex-Marine Alex Perez Danced with the Devil Six Times Saturday (This Story is Actually About Doughnuts. Crazy, huh?)

This past Saturday, Alex "Moose" Perez danced with the devil at the first annual Hypnotic Donuts, World's Spiciest Donut Eating Contest. The masochist battle started with a plain old glazed doughnut (a teaser), then went on to three subsequent flavors that were increasingly hotter. The fourth and fi ... More >>

For Former Military Lawyer Colby Vokey, the Defense Never Rests

Once an outspoken judge advocate, Dallas' Colby Vokey was chased from the Marines, but he's still defending troops -- and still speaking his mind.

Wayne Hancock: "The Whole Alt-Country Thing is Bullshit."

Even though country singer Wayne "The Train" Hancock was born in the '60s, he comes across like a man from an entirely different generation. His look, mannerisms and style of music are much more akin to someone raised in the Roaring Twenties, though Hancock's first album was released in 1995. Speak ... More >>

The Depressed Lesbian Vet and the Allegedly Homophobic VA Nurse: A Match Made in Hell

Via Change.orgEsther Garatie​A Dallas VA Medical Center nurse is on leave and her bosses are in full-blown groveling mode after a gay combat vet, in search of help for her deepening depression, said she was urged to come out of the darkness and to stop living in terrible lesbian sin. "I was ... More >>

Local Anti-Gas Drilling Activist Catches Execs Pushing PSYOP to Deal With "Insurgency"

​Last week, during an oil-and-gas drilling confab at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, execs turned their attention to a very touchy subject: how to get folks decidedly against gas drilling on their side. At which point, according to audio first obtained by CNBC earlier this week, gas-drilling spo ... More >>

Laughter Is Good For Morale

NBC News: "Friendly Fire" to Blame in Arlington Marine's Death in Afghanistan

U.S. Air Force/Roland BalikA U.S. Marine Corps carry team transferring Marine Staff Sgt. Jeremy Smith at Dover Air Force Base on Friday​On Thursday, the Department of Defense issued a release stating, simply, that Marine Staff Sgt. Jeremy D. Smith -- a 26-year-old Arlington native -- died on Wedne ... More >>

Call It a Tea Party, Serve Beer: On Tax Day, Getting Populist at the Ballpark

Patrick MichelsThe Tax Day Tea Partier's sophomore effort drew the largest crowd QuikTrip Park's ever hosted.Heading west on I-30 from downtown last night, you'd have passed two stretches of stalled traffic -- the first, along the access road just across the Trinity, made up of the grumbling masses ... More >>

Days Gone Bite: Steak And Eggs

Steak and eggs, Denny's-style.​The classic combination hasn't disappeared. In fact, during a recent visit to Fort Worth, I spotted the option on Grace's dinner menu.Once upon a time, however, this double-wallop of protein was such a common feature it rivaled (perhaps even beat out) bacon and eggs, ... More >>

The Sad View from Valley View

Signs like this one decorate dozens of empty storefronts at Valley View Center.​When I was a kid, Valley View was my mall -- bought my first skateboard (a Powell-Peralta purchased at the stand beneath the escalators), my first album (KISS's Double Platinum at the Disc Records) and my first guitar ... More >>

Days Gone Bite: C-Rations, K-Rations and SOS

C Rations​To the men of the 504th regiment, 82nd Airborne--"the Devils in Baggy Pants"--who crossed the Waal in Holland and battled Panzers in the Ardennes. My uncle 'Highlee' fought with them. And to Marines of the American Legation Guard, Peking, colloquially known as "the North China Marines" w ... More >>

Days Gone Bite: Space Food Sticks

​There was a 15 or so year blip in history when space--and massive government programs to explore space--was very cool. All a food company had to do was take, say, a powdered orange drink, slap a phrase such as "like the astronauts drink" on the label, and wait for the riches to roll in.Think abou ... More >>

Food For Thought 5.22.09

"No more RICE!" (U.S. Marine corporal Harold Thomas as Army aircraft began dropping rations and other supplies to men held at the POW camp in Niigata, Japan, in late August, 1945. Captured in Peking--now Beijing--China on the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Thomas had been a prisoner of the Japanese ... More >>

Goodbye Solo: Taking a taxi to the dark side

10 Questions: Jason Weaver

The French Room's executive chef is one of those 'results-oriented' types. Perhaps his habit of accomplishment stems from the four years he spent in the U.S. Marine Corps. Or maybe the 35 year-old Michigan native can just flat out cook.Although he came to Dallas from the Mandarin Oriental in New Yor ... More >>

Burning Question: What's changed since you left Dallas?

Mexico's Niños Héroes Were Brave by Any Standard

A Postcard from Iraq: The Night Lieutenant Dan Met Major Mike

To Meet a War Hero

The New Face of Evil

Call of Duty 4 might hit a little too close to home

Yup. I Was a Cheerleader. Damned Proud of It. (Well...)

American Eagle

March Madness ain't nothing compared to Ambush Alley

¡Ask a Mexican!

Green Grass for a Local Filmmaker

Flags of Our Fathers

Remember Iwo Jima at Frontiers of Flight

The War on Film

Iraq Hits the Big Screen

Killing Time

In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

G.I. Jerk

Phil Haberman claims he fought with special forces in Iraq, but he's about as real as Rambo

Just Peachy

Both Sides Now

In a new film, a local boy goes to war and realizes, yup, it sure is hell

Counsel for the Defense

At 76, flamboyant criminal lawyer Racehorse Haynes keeps doing what he does best--winning

Free Thinkers

Moral lessons get electrified

Well Versed

Same state, different worlds for two Texas poet laureates

The Gulf Between

When these soldiers became writers, the pen turned into a very mighty weapon

Beach Head

At the Winter Music Conference, P. Diddy blows up while the U.S. blows up Iraq

Feeding Frenzy

Some high-demand fish are in danger of extinction--and restaurants are caught in the middle

Asphalt Jungle

Understaffed and overworked, public works inspectors prowl the streets for potholes

Letters

Downright Mean, All God's Creatures

Passing the Bar

How do you get a bartender’s attention in a crowded bar?

Korn

The Few, the Proud, the Battered

At Harlingen's Marine Military Academy, the line between discipline and abuse is sometimes as thin as a knife's edge

Countering the 'Get Clinton' movement

Some day, someone's bound to notice that Clinton made government work better

Street scenes

Harvey Keitel talks about being discovered after 20 years of acting

Blah, blah

Hypercritical politics deliver nowhere politicians