The name may have changed, but the mission has not: Ground truth news and stories for the military, veterans, and first responders.

The first issue of The Forward Observer (formerly Coffee or Die Magazine) delivers on that mission. We embedded with the US Border Patrol, delivered an inside look at the Battle of Kyiv, and rode along with special operations medics on real-world emergency calls in New Jersey.

You’ll find a dispatch from the 2022 Best Ranger Competition at Fort Benning, Georgia, as well as must-read stories about psychedelic therapies for veterans, a veteran skateboarding retreat, and abuse at the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp in Albania. Navy SEAL veteran Andy Stumpf talks about skydiving and surviving the apocalypse, Donut Operator recalls some of the strange and funny people he met on patrol in Baltimore, and Jack Mandaville offers sound advice to those in need (note: don’t take it too seriously).

This is one magazine you won’t be able to put down! Always forward!