“HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD.” For 100 years, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has served as the heart of Arlington National Cemetery. As a sacred memorial site and the grave of three unknown American service members, the Tomb connects visitors with the …
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‘It Was Just Wild’: Guardsmen Fight Fires From the Sky ‘It Was Just Wild’: Guardsmen Fight Fires From the Sky | BY KATIE LANGE, DOD NEWS A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew chief uses a Bambi bucket to collect water for aerial firefighting. Several Idaho National Guard members battle wildfires in the …
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Photo taken by the crew of a 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter during a rescue of avalanche victims at a glacier near Hunter Creek Airstrip Aug. 6, 2021. Alaska Army National Guard UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter crew rescues 3 hunters from avalanche By Spc. Grace Nechanicky …
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Chaplain (Capt.) Emil J. Kapaun celebrates Mass while using the hood of his Jeep as an altar; his assistant, Patrick J. Schuler, kneels in prayer on Oct. 7, 1950, less than a month before Kapaun was taken prisoner. Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun: ‘Padre’ Finally Returns Home SEPT. 30, 2021 |BY AIR …
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By Jennifer Spradlin, U.S. Air Force During the initial insertion onto Afghanistan’s Takur Ghar mountaintop, the MH-47 “Chinook” helicopter carrying Chapman and the joint special operations reconnaissance team flew into an enemy ambush. Intense enemy small arms and rocket propelled grenade fire significantly damaged the helicopter, throwing Navy Petty Officer …
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Slam VII: “Shot All to Hell.” The action involves a company-sized reconnaissance team from FOB-2 Kontum which has already been on the ground for a week. Ordered in to search, locate, annihilate, and monitor enemy resistance, the members of SLAM VII have already suffered greatly. Eighteen American Green Berets and …
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Mad Mike Hoare by Chris Hoare By Chris Hoare Author of Mad Mike Hoare Fifty years ago, Stanleyville in the Congo was the scene of one of the most savage crimes of the last century, the cold-blooded massacre of hostages by the Simba rebels. Mercenary soldiers from 5 Commando under …
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Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Shurer II (front row, far right), poses for a photo with members of his detachment near Pul-e Charkhi Afghan National Army Base, Nov. 6, 2007. (Photo Credit: Photo courtesy of Ronald J. Shurer II) By Mitch Weiss and Kevin MaurerFrom the April 2013 issue of SOF …
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SOF INTERVIEW WITH EEBEN BARLOW “EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES: AGAINST ALL ODDS” The book ‘Executive Outcomes: Against all Odds’ is a personal account of a company that gained fame and praise through its successes, and notoriety through its detractors. It is a story that cannot be told without including part of the founder, …
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America has over 83,000 Missing in Action Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines. This film trailer gives us a poignant look at the families of these MIAs. All have sacrificed brothers, fathers and sons to America’s wars. Often these families go an entire lifetime without knowing how or where their loved …
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