J.D. Simkins
Executive Editor
J.D. Simkins is the executive editor of Military Times and Defense News, and a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War.
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‘Warfare’ directors talk filmmaking process, capturing combat realism
Directors Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland discuss everything that went into creating one of the most realistic depictions of combat ever made.
Insomnia in the military is up 650 percent since 2003 — here’s how DoD is hoping to curb that trend
Solutions to the alarming trend have proved elusive.
To the surprise of no one, CBS cancels Marine courtroom drama ‘The Code’
It seemed doomed from the start.
Detail, please halt! Belgian cadets display the worst drill in the history of upright walking
The following is an open letter to the esteemed Belgian Defence Forces on behalf of a now-perturbed international community.
Sisters retire after 33 years together in the Army National Guard
It’s a story that surprisingly has not yet been turned into a sitcom.
Great balls of fire! The sizzling ‘Top Gun 2’ trailer is here
It looks like a doozy.
Whoops! Canadian senator accidentally revealed European locations of US nuclear weapons
“Do we really want Donald Trump to use nuclear weapons from our territory at the push of a button?”
WWII cryptologist, math genius Alan Turing chosen as the face of new English currency
Turing's life was the subject of the 2014 feature film, “The Imitation Game."
Marine veteran’s MAGA-themed wedding pays tribute to President Trump
The celebration in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to honor the couple’s union produced quite the spectacle.
A few good tweets: Congressman thanks fictional Marine for his service, retweets account calling him a white supremacist
Representative Steve King did not have the best Fourth of July.
