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Brig. Gen. James M. Stewart

Lt. Gen. Valin, Chief of Staff, French Air Force, awards the Croix De Guerre with Palm to Col. Jimmy Stewart for exceptional services in the liberation. (U.S. Air Force photo) On March 22, 1941, Jimmy Stewart was drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces. He was assigned to the Army Air …

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3-4 Cavalry, Blasting Away During the Tet Offensive

Army SPC Dwight Birdwell Via Cherokee Phoenix Bob,Remember the article I wrote a while back in SOF about Dwight Birdwell and his actions as a tank commander during the relief of Tans Nhut AB during TeT of ’68 wherein he was put in for the MOH by his commanding officer, …

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Barry Sadler Talks to Jimmy Dean: SOF and Sadler

Barry Sadler and SOF ABOVE VIDEO Jimmy Dean talks with Sgt Barry Sadler about his tour in Vietnam, and how he feels about the Draft Dodgers. Then Barry sings   SOF: Barry Sadler was an enlisted man and a Green Beret. He was a special forces medic while In Vietnam …

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Retaking the Koidu Diamond Fields From Executive Outcomes, Against All Odds.

Chapter 28 Retaking the Koidu Diamond Fields By Eeben Barlow  Anyone planning to fight a successful armed anti-government or terrorist campaign ought to know that one of the primary objectives (apart from causing mass enemy casualties and loss of materiel) is the denial of funds to the rebel or terrorist …

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22-MILE KILL SHOT

Marines Set A New Record By Harold Hutchison From the December 2012 issue of SOF SURPRISE FOR THE TALIBAN On 12 February, 2012, some Taliban insurgents had no idea that death was coming for them. But come it did, in the form of a record-setting shot by United States Marines. …

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Paratrooper: Combat Veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan: Living the Dream

Paratrooper: Following in my Father’s Footsteps By Heath Hansen, a second generation paratrooper and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. I looked up into the big, blue sky. Far in the distance, I spotted a C-130 Hercules headed towards the open grass field I waited in. For a few moments, …

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Lt. Henry Harboard, ‘The Breaker’ Morant: the closing arguments, the request for pardon and the execution

Lieutenant Henry Harboard (Harry) ‘The Breaker’ Morant Australian War Memorial’s Side of the Story: Better known for the manner of his death before a firing squad than what he did in life, Harry Morant is believed to have been born on 9 December 1864 at Somerset in England. Much of …

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Grenada: One We Won

GRENADA ONE WE WON!  by Robert K. Brown and Dr. Vann Spencer, from I am Soldier of Fortune SOF covers America’s victory and scores intelligence coup in Caribbean The United States invaded Grenada in 1983. “Pack up, we are going to war,” I told my then Managing Editor Jim Graves. …

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