Update: From the Department of Defense, “At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.”
There is a long-standing adage in combat arms branches that says “you haven’t had a full career until you’ve gotten an Article 15.” Well, this Vietnam War veteran had his share non-judicial punishments (authorized by Article 15 of UCMJ), racked…
The hazing rituals of the US military have nothing on what British squaddies must endure, to include one who was forced to jump into a bin full of horse feces, dead rats and gasoline as part of a ritual. The…
Sometimes, recognition comes long after a good deed is done- but such deeds are rarely done for the sake of recognition. In 1944, a young American Army Private by the name of Pedro Cano took on an overwhelming number of…
A young Florida surfer went to Hawaii on a US Army enlistment contract, only to go AWOL and later become a staple of the California wave scene. John Smith roams the shores of Huntington Beach, a city known for beautiful…
Several US Army Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles were left abandoned on rail cars in the American Southwest- inconveniently located smack dab in the middle of a railroad crossing. The IFVs, believed to belong to the Fort Hood-based 2nd Brigade Combat…
