There are more rumors and myths floating around about the Central Intelligence Agency then there are actual facts. “The Agency” or “The Company” is charged with preempting threats and furthering national security objectives by collecting and ...
“The Bridge on the River Kwai” won Best Picture and six other Oscar nods from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences at the 1958 Academy Awards. What the film did not win was the respect and admiration from members of the Far East Prisoners ...
“Weather guy” doesn’t sound like a particularly badass job on first inspection. For those unfamiliar with the U.S. Air Force’s Special Operations Weather Teams, it may not sound like the sort of thing that takes much courage or daring. But ...
anbij wasn’t necessarily safe so much as it was stable. Or maybe just quiet ... for the time being. Kurdish forces backed by the American military successfully drove out the Islamic State in 2016, with a relative calm following. The small northern ...
Three years and five months spent in the Malayan jungle battling typhus, pneumonia, blackwater fever, cerebral malaria — two weeks of which was spent in a coma — represent half of the battles British commando Freddy Spencer Chapman faced during his ...
On Jan. 3, 2010, Senior Airman Bradley Smith earned a Silver Star, but he would not be alive to accept it two years later.As a part of the 10th Air Support Operations Squadron, a U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) supporting a ...
Adolf Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945, but his death didn’t bring an end to the fighting of World War II or the work that had to be done. While many German units were standing down, Allied troops fought German holdouts right up until ...
Most Americans recognize Cinco de Mayo by drinking margaritas and eating tacos. Today, it’s a celebration of Mexican culture — and it’s a much bigger deal in America than in Mexico. Though many Americans mistake Cinco de Mayo for Mexico’s ...
From April 12 to 14, 2019, 54 two-man teams competed in the 36th annual David E. Grange Best Ranger Competition for 60 continuous hours of running, shooting, ruck marches, and climbing. The teams came from across the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and ...
Every May, on the second Sunday of the month, the United States celebrates mothers. But especially notable are mothers who accomplish a balancing act that few among the national population can imagine — serving in the military while also acting as ...
The U.S. Army has just revamped the promotion system for noncommissioned officers (NCOs). The days of waiting for your time to be selected for promotion are over. The Army has scrapped sequence numbers, which display how long an NCO has been serving ...
While many movies have been made about battles in the current Global War on Terror and the controversial Vietnam War, few offer a glimpse into the Persian Gulf War and its lesser-known engagements. You’d have to dig even deeper for significant ...
On the official first day of the 2019 NRA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, President Donald Trump took the stage at the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) Leadership Forum.Trump began by taking a few shots at the media before ...
It has been almost a year since U.S. Navy Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher has been publicly accused of a war crime. The severity of the crime is grim and reminiscent of the atrocities depicted in the 1985 anti-war movie ...
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 ...
The lightning crackling down from the sky was violently awesome, threatening the surface of the earth in perfect concert with driving rains and wind that reduced visibility to (maybe) a few feet on the interstate. At the airbrief the day prior, the ...
The 2019 David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger competition is over, and Team 19's Captain John Bergman and Captain Michael Rose of the 101st Airborne Division are the victors.On Friday, April 12, the 36th annual event kicked off on Fort Benning, ...
Todd Field had the ambiance of a summer barbecue. Laughing, good food, and a bright sun overhead to set the tone for day two of the 2019 Best Ranger Competition. One of the great joys of attending the annual competition is meeting new people and ...
It was pitch black, no sign of the sun to be found. But the air was still thick and the spectators plenty as the Star-Spangled Banner started to fill the ears of those who were lining the road into Camp Rogers on Fort Benning, Georgia. The crowd was ...
Stories about prisoners of war (POWs) are normally dark, arduous tales of torture and seemingly endless hardship. However, one legendary Green Beret reshaped a predominantly somber narrative with the help of his cunning, brute force — and his beard. ...
Three American service members were killed in Afghanistan on Monday. The American personnel were traveling by ground-convoy, near Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED).According to ...
On this date 32 years ago, the U.S. Army Special Forces — commonly referred to as “Green Berets” — were officially established as a basic branch of the U.S. Army. But their history began much earlier.From the days when the 10th Special Forces ...
Winston Churchill, like all larger-than-life leaders, proved himself during tumultuous years. Soldiers, politicians, and citizens alike were searching for a voice that could assert meaning and nationwide values in a unified way when the world around ...
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 ...
A U.S. Air Force Special Tactics operator will be awarded the Silver Star on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler, Georgia. According to the Air Force, Technical Sergeant Cam Kelsch, a special tactics air ...
“America never contributed anything to the world but chewing gum and Coca-Cola,” griped Otto Dietrich, the Nazi Press Chief and head of propaganda, in 1942.An inaccurate statement at best, but Dietrich does hit on something genuine: the ...
From fiction to documentary, past wars to current conflicts, there is a wealth of military-related content available on streaming services right now. I watched three of the big ones — “Combat Obscura,” “Triple Frontier,” and “They Shall Not Grow Old” ...
The Vietnam War echoes in the soul of the United States. As one of the most divisive and misunderstood wars in our nation’s history, it was fought in large by young men who sought to uphold the honor of their nation as their fathers, uncles, and ...
U.S. Army General Raymond Thomas III, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, said in a video released earlier this month that Special Operations Forces will be required to undergo testing for traumatic brain injury (TBI) before being cleared ...
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 ...
