U.S. Army Specialist Gregory Diacogiannis was on his second deployment to Iraq for Easter Sunday in 2007. He was stationed in South Baghdad at Camp Rustamiyah along the Tigris River as part of a dismount team on a Bradley Fighting Vehicle in the 3rd ...
Massachusetts is one of the few states that recognizes and celebrates Patriots’ Day annually on the third Monday of April. The day honors the first battles of the American Revolutionary War, the Battles of Lexington and Concord. However, the most ...
Rafi Eitan died on March 23, 2019, at age 92. He is a legend in Israel’s intelligence community — the type of spy that other espionage agents strive to become. From capturing Nazis to handling a U.S. agent who stole Israeli secrets, Eitan is an ...
On Wednesday, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Travis Atkins, who was killed in 2007 while shielding three of his soldiers from a suicide bomber in Iraq, will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in ...
Patrol Officer Richard Preim could see the sweat dripping down the front of his shoes. It was a hot July night in 1998 on the streets of Beaverton, Oregon. He was on a domestic disturbance call, working the graveyard shift until 6 AM — and the night ...
Dave Austin, a police officer on-site at the Central Intelligence Agency, had heard about the protective operations training course from a few buddies at work. At the time, his image of the job was someone in a suit with an earpiece — basically a ...
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) wants to close out the war in Afghanistan and give troops who fought in the theater a bonus for their service.The Military Times reported that Paul and Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) introduced a bill titled the American Forces ...
On Dec. 17, 2018, U.S. diplomats met with Taliban officials in the United Arab Emirates, according to a report from the Washington Post. The topic of discussion: ending the war in Afghanistan. On Feb. 25, 2019, "[t]he highest-level negotiations yet ...
Author’s note: The Islamic Republic of Iran doesn’t have diplomatic relations with the United States. In Iran, the media and the internet are closely monitored by the government. However, it’s impossible to keep track of everyone. And sometimes, ...
U.S. Army Specialist Jay Strobino was with his team in Rushdi Mullah, a small farming village in Iraq’s infamous Triangle of Death, on Feb. 1, 2006. They were there on a mission to grab a suspected enemy insurgent. Everything was going according to ...
The killing of Usama Bin Laden — Operation Neptune Spear — remains one of the biggest stories of the 21st century. Since UBL’s death in May 2011, various books, documentaries, and movies have attempted to paint a picture of what happened to the ...
Haiti is the 16th poorest country in the world. It’s rife with crime, poverty, and corruption. However, despite all that, it’s also a place where HERO — an organization founded by Stacy Librandi Bourne and composed of veterans, EMTs, and firefighters ...
On Dec. 13, 2018, U.S. Army Major and former Green Beret Matthew Golsteyn was charged with murder for killing an alleged Taliban bomb maker. The case against Golsteyn has been a hot-button issue, sparking controversy and debate across the country — ...
It was August 2006, and the ranch-style home was surrounded by Denver police, the bomb squad, and special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, as well as the FBI. Helicopters circled the property from above. The ...
The U.S. Army Special Forces team at Camp Shaheen near Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh Province, Afghanistan, was rehearsing for a mission the following day. Once they were finished, they began staging their vehicles in preparation to head back to ...
Former Green Beret and Delta Force breacher Scot Spooner had already endured significant emotional trauma before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1992.His dad was an alcoholic, and his parents split up when he was 12. It didn’t take long for ...
The forest of mostly dead trees sits near the highway in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Syringes and broken bottles litter the landscape. On occasion, you might catch a vagrant cooking some food or a junkie getting his fix. You might also see master ...
Three years after ISIS declared a caliphate in Raqqa, Syria, its ability to take more territory had crumbled. With constant coalition airstrikes and special operations forces weakening the jihadist group, its capability to effectively fight back was ...
At 6-foot-3, 19-year-old Elder Ostler stood a head taller than most of the people he saw walking down the street in Krasnodar, Russia. He wore a white dress shirt with a black name tag, a paisley tie, and a pair of slacks. His companion, Elder Dance, ...
José Castellanos was in his mid-30s and had served in the New York Police Department (NYPD) for 15 years, both as a patrol officer and a detective. He was a seasoned officer but was now stepping into new shoes that were much more challenging to walk ...
Fire Captain Trevor Pool has worked on some of the harshest rescue operations in America. He has seen the devastation wreaked by major hurricanes first-hand and has spent twenty years in the fire service. So, when Hurricane Harvey came slamming ...
In August 1996, Usama Bin Laden issued a fatwa against Americans, declaring holy war against the United States and its interests. The fatwa reads, in part:“The people of Islam awakened and realised that they are the main target for the aggression ...
Yosef Talha was 25 when the war in Syria came to his doorstep. He lived with his family in the countryside just outside of the now-infamous city of Aleppo when Bashar al-Assad’s security forces came into his city without notice, forcing him from his ...
Editor’s Note: This is an emotionally jarring article that details a heinous crime against a minor and may be disturbing for many readers. Please read with caution.Las Vegas Homicide Detective Phil Ramos watched the surveillance tape of Jeremy ...
George Snow, a 49-year-old self-described survivalist, was wanted on weapons and drug charges. He fled New York state to the southern U.S. and set up his tent in a rural area of Fayetteville, North Carolina — thus making him a fugitive.He was ...
With heavily tattooed arms, a motorcycle vest, red bandana, and long goatee, Jay Dobyns fit the stereotype for the kind of person who would hang around the street-hardened bikers of the Hells Angels Skull Valley Charter. He would peddle T-shirts for ...
Jeff Tiegs is a former US Army Delta Force Operator who now works in the shadows to hunt a different kind of terrorist: those who exploit women and girls in the sex trade.As the head of Guardian Group, Tiegs — along with many other former special ...
Hamas, founded in 1987 by Ahmad Yassin, is a foreign terrorist group that was formed during the first intifada against Israel. Yassin, a radical Sunni spiritual leader, created Hamas during the unrest in Gaza to emphasize the Islamist aims of the ...
The streets of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, aren’t just a popular destination for tourists seeking a glimpse into the 18th century. Blended into the populace are people training to become spies, learning the basics of tradecraft. The Virginia ...
Since the Civil War, sharpshooters — now called snipers — are among the most feared on the battlefield. With stealth and concealment as their camouflage, you never know where they might be. Behind Germany, Russia, and even China, the US military ...
