The Marine Corps veteran has proven capable of bouncing back from a difficult situation in the past, and his ability to do so will undoubtedly be tested this Saturday night when he squares off ...
· Stann experienced early success in World Extreme Cagefighting as he trained part-time while maintaining his leadership position in the United States Marine Corps. But …
· MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. -- Former Marine and Ultimate Fighting Championship athlete Brian Michael Stann, visited Cherry Point Sept. 4 for the UFC Fitness Event at the Roadhouse hosted by the Air Force Reserve. Stann was invited to Cherry Point to speak about health and fitness due to his background in Marine Corps and his fighting …
At that moment in time, Stann was 30 and only a couple of years removed from the Marine Corps. He went into the 2011 fight with a head of steam, having won his previous battles against Mike ...
· Stann, a former Marine, dedicated his TKO victory against slight favorite Chris Leben at the 3:37 mark of the first round in the co-main event to a …
On June 15, 22 months after walking away from his television gig with Fox, Stann will receive his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, which is part of Northwestern University. He currently works as the COO of a single-family rental company, owned by a private equity portfolio company.
Brian Michael Stann (born September 24, 1980) is an American former mixed martial artist and U.S. Marine who competed as a Middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is a former WEC Light Heavyweight Champion.
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UFC 270 cageside commentators Jon Anik will serve as the leading man on the mic from cageside, and he will command play-by-play alongside color commentators Joe Rogan and former two-division UFC champion Daniel Cormier.
Col. Jack Ramthun reviews the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and concludes that it “fell victim to two key decision mistakes early in its development: the joint approach with diverse requirements and concurrency with unproven technologies. The significant negative consequences from these mistakes include schedule delays stretching greater than five years, program costs more than doubling from original estimates, and decreasing legacy tactical aviation readiness.” Colonel Ramthun likens the design of the F-35 to someone trying to make footwear that could at once be running shoes, sandals, dress shoes, and hiking boots. (My friend retired Marine Col. T.X. Hammes, looking at the short legs of the F-35 and at the drone-rich 21st century military environment, comments, “It's as if in 1940 we doubled down on battleships instead of carriers.”)
Yes, I know, others will say that turboprops can’t survive over today’s battlefield, or that UAVs would be better for the job.
Evidence in Marine special operations case stalled again by Pentagon’s censor. July 15, 2020. Retired Marine and former MARSOC task force commander Fred Galvin has been in a nine-year battle with the Pentagon's Freedom of Information Act offices. (Fred Galvin)
Fred Galvin, U.S. Marine retired, served in the Marine Corps for 26 years serving both as an enlisted Marine and as an officer in the Marine infantry, reconnaissance, force reconnaissance and Marine Special Operations. Editor’s note: This is an op-ed and as such, the opinions expressed are those of the author.
Despite several reform efforts, including the Freedom Of Information Act of 1967 and pressure from Congress to allow the public access to records of any federal agency, the Pentagon is repeatedly ignoring requests for unclassified information in order to protect senior military leaders from embarrassment. An ongoing gross abuse of the FOIA by the ...
The commandos acquitted themselves both on the battlefield and the following year in nearly a monthlong courtroom trial. Starting with the preliminary investigation the Pentagon made every effort to bury the details of what actually did and did not happen.
For those who are unfamiliar with this case: It involved a gunfight on a road in Afghanistan, how the military senior leaders obstructed justice by coercing witnesses under threats to deport their family members, suppressed multiple sworn testimonies and reports of incontrovertible exculpatory evidence, and several examples of senior officers violating their moral duty of a fair, impartial and unbiased system of justice.
The Pentagon ignored Jones’ request for 11 months, until my attorney filed for action to in 2012 through the U.S. District Court. In April 2014, after further FOIA requests from multiple parties, the FOIA office provided its first response via email. Unfortunately, the FOIA officials decided to fight back by refusing records.
soil, which led then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to order each service branch increase its amount of special operations forces to combat terrorism. Each branch of the military complied except for the Marine Corps, which had resisted for 14 years. It was due to the belief that it was not in the Corps’ best interest to have an elite unit within an already elite service.
In my battalion’s after action report from the deployment, there are more than fifty topics discussed. Just three of them relate to partnering, the main effort in Helmand and our primary mission. The rest are tactical prescriptions with a few operational suggestions thrown in — not the sort of analysis you want from a battalion staff.
During the summer of 2011, the author served in Helmand Province as a Tolai Advisor to the Afghan National Army’s 215th Corps. The views presented here are his own.
An example: As the wars draw to a close, the Marine Corps is preaching a return to its roots. This is all well and good. But it seems as if everyone is holding up the 1990s as an idyllic time in the Marine Corps’s history, as if the past decade with all of its lessons and changes was an aberration.