Jon Simkins

Editor, Staff Writer

Jon Simkins is a writer and editor for Military Times, and a USMC veteran.

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Meal, Ready-to-Bulk? Pentagon urged to add creatine to MREs

The gains-based recommendation will now await a Senate decision in order to become law.

4 weeks ago

Soldier is first to get approval for traditional Samoan hand tattoos

An Army captain earlier this year became the first soldier to be granted approval to display the traditional ink.

2 months ago

Here’s what happens when you flush a toilet on a Navy ship

Toilet-flushing is a complex process for the U.S. Navy.

Military personnel among names in leaked Oath Keepers membership list

Those named in the report ranged from junior personnel to officers and senior enlisted.

First look at WWI thriller ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ is here

The classic World War I novel is getting the big screen treatment once again — this time in its native language.

Depression, suicide risk high among LGBTQ youth with military parents

Data was collected from nearly 35,000 survey respondents between October and December 2020.

Underdeveloped brain led to 2006 bank heist, jailed ex-Ranger claims

The defendant argued that his actions as a 20-year-old were orchestrated by a brain that “does not fully develop until 25.”

In this Sept. 30, 2019, file photo, former national security adviser John Bolton gestures while speakings at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

Iranian charged in plot to murder former National Security Advisor John Bolton

The murder-for-hire was reportedly in response to the U.S. assassination of Qassim Soleimani, commander of the Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force.

Shell shocked: Bomb squad called after man lodges WWII anti-tank round in rectum

Anti-tank rectal clogging is a remarkably similar sensation to that experienced by service members who surpass two consecutive weeks of MRE consumption.

‘Mike is a cheater’ spray-painted on car belonging to veteran not named Mike

“I do not even know anyone named Mike,” Army veteran Nedra-Iman Brantley wrote in a Facebook post after discovering her vehicle.

Documentary chronicles efforts to repatriate American service members missing since WWII

Project Recover has completed more than 60 missions in over 20 countries and located more than 180 Americans once missing in action.

Watch North Korean soldiers obliterate bricks with their heads

No number of “Boom!” “Whap!” and “Doink!” quips from John Madden’s elite vernacular can channel the blunt force trauma celebrated by the supreme leader.

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