Rockets in action. Soldiers from the 133rd Field Artillery Regiment, Texas National Guard, conduct a live-fire exercise using the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) in Ben Ghilouf, Tunisia, May 9, 2024. Watch how they blast.
Read More »Huey Grab ‘N Go: Water Survival Operations in Action
How to perfect a water rescue: you train for it. Fairchild Air Force Base teams up with the 24th Special Operations Wing for Special Tactics members to get their master certification at Long Lake, Washington. Fairchild provided the UH-1N Huey for Special Tactic members to test for their medevac and …
Read More »The Nurses of Normandy: Young Women Who Answered the Call
They were young women who answered the call. It was a terrible time, and they went into the fire in order to save lives. These military nurses share their stories of caring for our military men after D-Day in Normandy, France. We cannot thank them enough.
Read More »In No-Man’s Land With Navy SEALs: Our Fight Left Us Smoked – With One Last Prank to Pull
Four days of a live-fire exercise left us smoked and ready for exfil. We still had to play a farewell joke. The metal monster boomed over us and arced up and away to the south. It had disgorged its 13 passengers – a U.S. Navy SEAL team, ready to hop …
Read More »Night Flight Aboard the Mighty Ike
This never gets old. The USS Eisenhower sends…
Read More »Night Stalker Crew Drops Off a Team at Work
Just another day on the job… Twice the action when an MH-47 Night Stalker crew drops off an ARSOF team at work. Army Special Operations sends.
Read More »Mail Drop: Vomiting in the Balkans, Choking on Relish, and More
Mail drop! Here’s the latest peek into our inbox at Soldier of Fortune. Send us a note, and you, too, might appear in a future edition of Mail Drop! Vomiting in the Balkans Susan: Hey I saw what you wrote about working on a story in Dubrovnik and then vomiting …
Read More »Loose Inside a Plummeting Huey: ‘My Feet Were In the Slipstream; My M-60 Was Going Out the Door’
The Marine next to me started screaming, which I could clearly hear over the engine and wind noise by Al Hagan As a Marine Corps lance corporal, I was going through helicopter training at Camp Lejeune. Our bird lands, we jump on, and I find that my seatbelt is adjusted …
Read More »The Bachelor Party: A Marine Raced Against Time to Detach a Stripper From His Camaro
by Al Hagan In the early 1980s, I was in the Marine Corps, and a friend of mine who had gone into the Army was getting married. We’d grown up together, and so I and others – lots of military – journeyed back home for the occasion. Naturally, this required …
Read More »With Seconds to Spare, This Soldier Saved a Woman Trapped Inside a Burning Car
by Sgt. 1st Class Laura Berry, Massachusetts National Guard STERLING, Mass. – Specialist Ryan Leger finished his drill with Massachusetts National Guard’s 110th Maintenance Company, and his wife picked him up. As they were driving home, they noticed how nice the sunset looked. His wife, Courtney, a photographer, wanted to stop …
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