• Douche of the Week: Lil Wayne
• That Explains it All
• I Thought I Was Going to Die: Part 3
• NSA and the Cult of the Presidency
• The Day of Days
• Does the Infantry Have a Future?
• Douche of the Week: Jesse Ventura
• Ranger Up Interviews: Ricky Schroder – Starting Strong
• I Thought I Was Going To Die: Part 2
• Are We Doomed?

Mr. Twisted’s Writing

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  NSA and the Cult of the Presidency

      Another day, another scandal, as the headline states. A lot will be written about the NSA spying story in the next couple weeks, but I felt it necessary to...

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  Does the Infantry Have a Future?

  Editor’s note: This piece was written several weeks ago, so it is not in direct response to “Why Afghanistan Might Be Marines’ Last Fight,” which was linked by Ranger Up’s Facebook...

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  Douche of the Week: Jesse Ventura

  By Mr. Twisted “Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here.” That classic line from the movie Predator stands out for many guys as being the quintessential Jesse Ventura—an actual Vet who made...

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  Are We Doomed?

  By Mr. Twisted The Internal Revenue Service is blatantly playing partisan politics and creating ethical violations far worse than what President Nixon resigned over; the White House is claiming “deaf, dumb,...

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  Dave Roever, Chad Robichaux, and the Mighty Oaks Foundation

  By Mr. Twisted. While serving as a river boat gunner in Vietnam, Dave Roever was severely burned by a phosphorus grenade. Numerous surgeries, 14 months in a hospital, and many years...

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  Work Ethic: The Individual

    By Mr. Twisted “Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will...

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  Is the Pentagon Persecuting Christians: A Conversation

    By Mr. Twisted and SGT Awesome The topic of faith is, without question, one of the most difficult subjects to write on and maintain any sense of objectivity. Nobody approaches...

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  BAMF of the Week: COL Warner “Rocky” Farr

    By Mr. Twisted In the context of human life, 46 years is a fair amount of time. When considering how much has occurred in the last 46 years, that span...

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  We Can’t Forget Texas

    By Mr. Twisted Amidst the terrorism and subsequent heroism that occurred in Boston last week, we sort of glossed over a story that would in other times be major news—and...

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  The Boston Marathon: Good, Bad, and America

  Events such as those occurring at the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, tend to bring out both the very best and absolute worst of humanity. It is in these extreme...

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  FREEDOM!!! Except here, here, and here.

    By Mr. Twisted   A discussion from Ranger Up’s Facebook page last weekend revolved around the question of which states in our country have the most freedom and, conversely, which...

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  We Remember Iraq: Wacky Iraqi

    By Mr. Twisted I remember sitting in the chow hall at Camp Rudder—home of the 6th Ranger Training Battalion—and looking up at the news on television to see scraggly-bearded Saddam...

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  Douche of the Week: Harry Reid

    By Mr. Twisted We now interrupt our regularly scheduled program of commemorating the 10th anniversary of Operation: Iraqi Freedom to bring you a Douche of the Week special. And as...

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  An Original BAMF

    By Mr. Twisted The cliffs at Pointe du Hoc during the Normandy invasion in 1944. A low-level Airborne raid into Grenada in 1983. Operation: Just Cause. The Battle of Mogadishu....

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  Rocky Mountain High?

    By Mr. Twisted     @RU_Twisted on Twitter Oh, Colorado… Because it is my own state, I felt it necessary to write on the ridiculousness that is the Colorado legislature of late....

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  Work Ethic

  By Mr. Twisted       Follow on Twitter: @RU_Twisted  In a recent episode of The Ultimate Fighter, coach and fighter Chael Sonnen said “they’ll tell you that failure is not...