Jun 15, 2026
Matthew spent six years in the Navy as a Search and Rescue swimmer. Then fifteen years as a cop — Virginia Beach, then undercover narcotics in New Hampshire during the opioid epidemic. He worked under a different name for years. He wrote a book, The Journey to Midnight, about the night he planned to kill himself. Now...
Jun 12, 2026
Five questions this week. No real through-line, which is usually how these go.
-A reader four years sober wants to rebuild the friendships he burned while drinking.
-A father of two wants the kind of relationship with his kids he never had with his own dad.
-A high school junior writes in about his 13-year-old sister...
Jun 8, 2026
He was called the most dangerous man in Vermont. The governor said it on television. The truth is more boring and more alarming. Daniel Banyai is a former protection contractor and a Seventh-day Adventist who built a firearms training school called Slate Ridge in West Pawlet. He did it by the book. Federal firearms...
Jun 5, 2026
Usually Full Auto Friday is just me and the questions. Not this one. JP Dinnell is in the seat — former SEAL, came up through Ramadi, now chief training officer at Echelon Front — and Michael is running the stories.
We start where it counts. Whether anything in BUD/S ever matched the field. It didn't. BUD/S is hard....
Jun 1, 2026
Rachel Cuda grew up the daughter of a Navy SEAL, raised on Coronado around the teams. She speaks Russian, Ukrainian, and German. She studied at the University of Tennessee, earned a master's from Georgetown, and wrote software at a startup before moving into defense contracting. At the Pentagon she led the data modeling...