Navy’s anti-drug message a PSA unlike others
The rising popularity of designer drugs like marijuana-like “spice” and so-called “bath salts” concocted with chemical combinations meant to give users an illegal high has emergency medical responders...
View ArticleThe Coast Guard’s top video of 2012 is …
With 1,134 votes, the Coast Guard’s winner for 2012 Video of the Year shows boats being pelted by huge waves as Coast Guardsmen duck behind the boat’s dashboard to avoid catching the full force of the...
View ArticleFormer sailor sings chanty to forbidden Navy love
Forbidden love, Navy-style, just got its torch song. A former sailor has recorded his bawdy and facetious take on romantic tensions between enlisted guys and female officers on a ship, accompanying it...
View ArticleFraternization Song: Call Me Maybe Version
Isn’t there a “Call Me Maybe” version for everything nowadays? If you enjoyed former Aerographer’s Mate 2nd Class Logan Vath’s take on forbidden love between officer and enlisted personnel, check out...
View ArticleA service academy ‘Harlem Shake’-off
In what is quickly becoming the “Gangnam Style” of 2013, the services are going head to head in the “Harlem Shake.” If you’re unfamiliar with the spastic dance move, it involves a single masked person...
View ArticleNavy homecoming roundup: Elementary school and a Bulls game
For your daily dose of heartwarming videos, check out the two homecomings below. Though they happen across the country, they have expressions of pure joy in common. The first, from the Kitsap Sun....
View ArticleSailors learned how to succeed with brunettes in 1960s
Here’s a video presentation sailors won’t see today: a 16-minute lesson in how to succeed with brunettes. The video, produced in 1967, shows how far the service has come in more than 40 years. As the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Watch Stennis’ heart-tugging 3-minute salute to vets
First the video, then a few deep breaths, then some background: Rather than parades, appliance sales or ribbons one day a year, sailors aboard the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis are paying tribute to...
View ArticleVIDEO: Blue Angels pilot makes Rob Riggle squeal for this ‘Top Gun 2 audition...
This post was written by Battle Rattle’s James Sanborn. Comedian and retired Marine Rob Riggle takes to the skies in this “Top Gun 2 audition tape” skit for popular comedy website Funny Or Die. In it,...
View Article‘American Sniper’ trailer drops ahead of Christmas release
If you’re looking for some cinematic firefights after Christmas Day presents and brunch, you’re in luck. The film version of former Navy SEAL Chief Special Operator Chris Kyle’s best-selling American...
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