Front Royal

Rolling to your side your open your eyes to stare forward, the light disagreeing with you and cause a sharp ache in the front of your head. The room was silent again, which wasn’t like Luffy at all. Within a couple of seconds you assumed he had left but the lights flickered off and there were footsteps coming towards you. Turning your head slightly you see Luffy crouching…

Serving for a greater purpose than anyone could imagine, an experience that few go through in their lifetime, leaving this world having actually contributed to society, helping it grow stronger for the future generations, having made the world safer for millions of people with one oath and a will to progress and reach one's full potential--The United States Marine Corps is the toughest branch of service and pushes people farther than imaginable. “There is no can’t only pushing forward past…

Hurricane Joaquin was just a tropical storm when the ship name El Faro was leaving Jacksonville, Florida to Puerto Rico on Thursday. As Joaquin started to get bigger and stronger El Faro started to get 30 to 35 foot waves by the time the hurricane was category 4 they had lost all type of communication, the coast guard believes the wind could have destroyed the ship’s communications equipment and lost contact with the ship. El Faro had 33 people on board 28 of them were U.S. Citizens and five…

August 2, 1943. An American Lieutenant, 27 years of age, was with his crew of 13 aboard a PT boat near Japanese waters. It was late at night. Suddenly, the Lieutenant spotted in the darkness the outline of a boat coming straight towards them. At first he mistook it for a fellow PT boat-no cause for alarm. Yet as it came closer, he realized what it was: A Japanese destroyer. He made an attempt at the guns and tried to move out of the way, but it was too late. The PT boat was hit by the enormous…

“No Rank? Then Who is Chen Jia Zhou” Chen Jia Zhou is currently tall, skinny, muscled man. Even though, the veteran is now an elder, Jia was not as weak as the other elderlies. When Mr. Chen first joined the Navy the soldier was immature. However, now the ex soldier hair is completely white. The veteran was easy to give in, but the years in the Navy, those years hardened and qualified Jia physically and mentally for life. The veteran glancing back at the days of service. Although, Jia was in…

It’s 1848, Captain Horatio Dobbs and his whaling ship Princess a scouring the Pacific Ocean in search of the elusive Sperm Whale, his crew has been on a fruitless voyage for several months, not a whale in sight the reserves are running low and the ship has to make port to restock on rations. Suddenly, out of the vast blue expanse, an explosion of water, the Princess had stumbled upon a pod of Pacific Sperm Whales within minutes the small whaling boats a launched leaving only a skeleton crew on…

Carlos Hathcock was a natural marksman. It was always something that he had always had a knack for. He grew up shooting a .22 caliber J.C. Higgins single shot rifle. Dreaming of being a marine, he couldn’t wait to till he turned 18 and enlisted when he was 17. He faced many dangers in the marines as he fought in the Vietnam War, became a famed sniper and faced a life threatening injury. Carlos Hathcock loved the marines. Because his father was one and fought in World War II, he thought that it…

The Marine Corps, the world's finest fighting force. What comes to your mind when you hear this? Honor, courage, and commitment; these are virtues the Marine Corps lives by, and soon virtues myself and my fellow Marines will live by. The Marine Corps has always been extremely intriguing to me. The opportunity for travel, education, and the respect of your peers is what drew me to it most. It also offers me discipline and structure which I feel I am sometimes lacking in my life. The Marines are…

What would a citizen of the U.S. do if they were under attack by pirates? Would they resist and fight back or would they surrender and give up their home in the U.S? These are the questions that the president of the U.S. has to contemplate as the U.S. goes into an all out war with Pirates. In The Jefferson Key, President Danny Daniels along with Cotton Malone and other influential operatives fight back against Barbary Pirates that are trying to take over the U.S. These Barbary Pirates, Also…

“We’ll need to head out through the other end of the cargo bay where we’re going to be decontaminated and have our suits disposed of.” “Yes, of course.” They made their way to the other end of the cargo hold moving cautiously through the rows of body bags. Then, unexpectedly, Commander Brayzack stopped. “Wait!” “What is it, sir?” “I need to see that database again.” Back at the computer, Brayzack began typing one more name into the search box, Enders…