Timeline of Events 0:40 Shots fired 1:05 Biker in the middle of the video is shot, stumbles away 1:20 Injured biker stumbles away, another biker shot and killed under “OPEN” sign. 1:36 More shots fired 3:10 Police tell people to get on the ground 6:00 Police begin rounding up bikers at 6:00 8:00 Injured biker…
Author: The Tactical Hermit
Armed Texan and Part-Time Bard.
Military News: USMC Bomb Sniffing Dog Receives Highest Honor
Lucca is the first U.S. Marine service dog to receive the medal, considered the world’s top honor for war animals. A bomb-sniffing U.S. Marine Corps German shepherd who survived an IED blast while on patrol in Afghanistan was awarded the world’s highest honor for service dogs on April 5. The 12-year-old canine, named Lucca, joins a…
Modern Crime: The “Panama Papers” Scandal Keeps Getting Stranger
The man behind a Panama ‘tax scam’ that guards the clandestine wealth of the global elite is the son of a Nazi SS officer from a unit known as the ‘Death’s Head division’. Jürgen Mossack is at the heart of the biggest financial data leak in history, and has allegedly been helping world leaders, politicians…
Another Reason to Be Armed: 3 Great Examples That Armed Civilians Can Make a Difference
Here are three more examples of armed self-defense that happened within the last month. These examples show people who not only stopped criminals and saved lives, but some of these armed victims may have stopped mass murder! Armed civilians like you saved lives until the police could come and make an arrest. You did it,…
Holocaust History: Ravensbruck, The Often Forgotten Nazi Death Camp for Women
In ‘If This Is a Woman,’ Sarah Helm goes inside Germany’s Ravensbrück, where up to 90,000 women perished during the Holocaust. LONDON — Lying 50 miles north of Berlin, Ravensbrück was the only concentration camp the Nazis built with the sole intention to house female political prisoners. Opening up its gates in May 1939, just…
Espionage and Cold War Files: Extraordinary Lecture by Legendary Soviet Mole and Spy Kim Philby Emerges
A videotaped lecture by Kim Philby, one of the Cold War’s most recognizable espionage figures, has been unearthed in the archives of the Stasi, the Ministry of State Security of the former East Germany. During the one-hour lecture, filmed in 1981, Philby addresses a select audience of Stasi operations officers and offers them advice on…
Moscow Mercenaries in Syria
As Syrian forces push their advantage against the Islamic State, it is increasingly clear that there are Russians on the ground with them. Some are Spetsnaz special forces, there for recon and forward air control, but others are mercenaries, working for a shadowy outfit in St. Petersburg. Increasingly, the Kremlin is waking up to the…
Future of Warfare: First Recorded Use of “Explosive” Drone?
First there was IED’s, then VBIEDS, then Drones, then Drones Armed with Firearms, now we have “Explosive” Drones. Although the title of the article uses the word “Suicide” Drone, I see that as a misnomer; who is committing Suicide? If they are using the word as you would in describing a “Suicide Bomber”, the Operator…
Crusader Corner: ISIS Uses Mustard Gas in Syria
Islamic State militants attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor that borders Iraq, state media said on late Monday. Syrian state media did not disclose how many casualties were sustained in the latest drive by the hardline fundamentalist Sunni militants…
Financial News and Modern Crime: Why You Should Care About the “Panama Papers” Leak
The Panama Papers—11.5 million leaked documents that detail the inner workings of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm accused of helping drug lords, sports stars, Ponzi schemers, kings, presidents, prime ministers, FIFA officials, mafia members, high-profile thieves, high-ranking politicians, and at least one convicted sex offender launder money, evade taxes, and escape criminal prosecution—are a big…