by Sgt. 1st Class Ashleigh Martinez Editor’s note: I first met Chuck Ziegenfuss when I wrote an article about him for PEOPLE magazine, when he was donating voice-activated laptops to wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Before long, I was part of another group that cooked for …

by Gene Pugh One of the darkest days in Special Forces history occurred on a summer morning in 1968 in Vietnam. In the early hours of Aug. 23, the Da Nang MACVSOG camp known as FOB4 was attacked by approximately 167 soldiers from the combined units of the 22nd VC …

by Elon Perry The Israeli commandos wrote their farewell letters to be delivered only in the event they were killed on the high-stakes operation. Then they boarded their flights to Uganda, for a rescue raid that stunned the world. Sunday morning, 27 June 1976. An Air France A300 airliner, Flight …

by Heath Hansen When William Yeske asked if I’d be interested in reviewing his book, Damn The Valley, I was eager to see what he had put on paper. As I found out later, he’d served as an 82nd Airborne Paratrooper, in the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR). Considering I …

by Heath Hansen Happy National Airborne Day to all you servicemen and servicewomen who volunteered to serve your country at a “higher” level! Created in 2002, by then President George W. Bush, National Airborne Day honors all the Nation’s airborne armed forces. READ MORE from Heath Hansen in Soldier of …

Everyone knows the lowdown on life in the wild: you can survive for a while without food, but not for long without water. Here a British Army fusilier shows you how to capture rain water using a trap he’s built.

This Chinook took a spin at the annual Royal International Air Tattoo, the world’s largest international airshow. The helicopter did its thing at the show July 19-21, at RAF Fairford, England. This one does tricks… clipped from a U.S. Air Force video by Tech. Sgt. Jessica Avallone.

Snipers train to be the top of their class. Here, U.S. Marines with 3D Force Reconnaissance Company, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve go through range training with the M110 semi-automatic sniper system. They loaded up at Panzer Kaserne in Stuttgart, Germany. Watch while they use various shooting techniques, and …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz KeatingWhen Vladimir Putin embraced assassin Vadim Krasikov at the airport in Moscow on August 1, the Russian president looked jubilant. He had reason to celebrate. Putin’s operator, the convicted killer, was home. So, too, were the other nine Russians who were released as part of a complex …

by James Woods Editor’s note: Reader James Woods sent this story about his father in law, who had an interesting time one night after dark during WWII. My father in law was assigned to the HQ company of an engineer unit as a driver during WWII. The unit was going …