FORT CARSON, Colo. - On an early Saturday morning at Range 1 on Fort Carson, the sun bears down from a crisp gunmetal sky. The air is cool and quiet, though soon the acrid sting of gunpowder and the ...
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- It was November of 1776 and for Gen. George Washington and his Continental Army the prospects of establishing a new country apart from British rule was looking bleak. After ...
Each year on the Fourth of July, Scott Duff of Export takes some time away from the cookout, fireworks and talking with friends and family to reflect on one of the muskets in his extensive firearms ...
From British muskets to today’s M27 IAR, weaponry has advanced while preserving the Marine ethos. “Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman.” That saying has been an unofficial motto of the ...