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Why you don’t want to be stationed in the Dakotas in winter
“A United States Air Force response force leader with the 891st Missile Security Forces Squadron at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., braces himself against helicopter prop wash during a medical evacuation...
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Lady Lex still has one of the most amazing airwings in the world
Paul Allen keeps doing it. This time, his research ship, Petrel, has located the final resting place of USS Lexington (CV-2), the nation’s first real fleet carrier. “On March 5th 2018, the research...
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100 years ago today: Second-hand Artillery Luger
“167th Infantry, 2nd Battalion, Co. F. –Cpl Howard Thompson holding pistol of German whom Sgt James W. White killed in No Man’s Land with the butt of his pistol. A patrol of 5 men met 10 Germans in No...
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‘Old Man knives’
Increasingly, I admit being drawn to the appreciated beauty and functionality of old-school jackknives. The aesthetic reminds me of the old Barlow knife I used to carry as a kid, a gift from my...
View ArticleThe proud seventy-three of the 39th Combat Diver Course
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has a number of specialized frogmen units including combat swimmer detachments of the Special Operations Force and the Naval Diving Unit (NDU), dating back to 1971. To...
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A second-hand M1, 40 years later
In March 1978, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon or UNIFIL was authorized and one of the first “blue berets” on the ground in the DMZ were French with Warrant Officer François-Xavier Roch, a...
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75 years ago today: Have a smoke and a smile
A wounded German POW of the 15th Panzergrenadier Division offers a light to one of his captors; a wounded British Army soldier of the 6th Durham Light Infantry, 50th Infantry Division, XXX Corps. March...
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Carry choices for rangemaster certified instructors
I thought this list was pretty interesting. It’s a survey of the carry choices of 100 Rangemaster certified firearms instructors. Most commonly, they carry (almost every day) a 9mm striker-fired...
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The Anne-Marie
On this day in 1841, the 2nd Regiment of the Foreign Legion of the French Army was created at Bone in Algeria and enrolled 2,240 legionnaires– largely Swiss and Germans– organized in 3 battalions...
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the most important, and least remembered...
The Battle of Moreuil Wood on March 30, 1918, is captured in the painting “Charge of Flowerdew’s Squadron” by Sir Alfred Munnings via the Canadian War Museum: UNDATED — Undated handout photo of Alfred...
View ArticlePeaches and Pound Cake
Story Corps has this great bit of relation from PFC Roman Coley Davis, who grew up in a small town in southern Georgia. After graduating from high school in 2004, he joined the military. By the time he...
View ArticleThe last duel in France, just 51 years ago today
On 21 April 1967 French politicians Gaston Defferre and Rene Ribiere met at the private residence of Neuilly-sur-Seine to conduct the duel over a petty matter of public honor. Fought with epees, the...
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Men of action in coffee-stained crackerjacks, 104 years ago today
These are not the kind of guys you want to pick a fight with. NHHC NH 100612 Ensign Schuyler F. Heim and other members of the landing party from the South Carolina-class battleship USS Michigan (BB-27)...
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Snake eaters, or maybe just snake adjacent
“A Southern Black Racer slithers across the barrel of a NationalGuard Soldier’s sniper rifle during a 1-173 Infantry training exercise Saturday, April 7, 2018, at Eglin Air Force Base. Snipers are...
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RIP Soon-Tek Oh
If you grew up watching anything war or military-related in the 1970s and 1980s, odds are, you saw diasporic Korean actor Soon-Tek Oh– several times. He was truly a gifted man of many faces: Born in...
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73 years ago today: Frustration and high explosives
30 April 1945… Royal Australian Engineers of the 2/13 Field Company, exhausted after an initial failed attempt to get ashore at the settlement of Lingkas to blow up wire defenses under heavy Japanese...
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So my daughter is moving out
After 23 years in the nest, the college graduate is flapping her wings and setting sail to her own digs. *Sniff* So I had a housewarming present made for her. Apparently, Wal-Mart will print anything...
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A survivor
Official U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-K-4510, now in the collections of the National Archives. Great original color photo of battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) Gunner’s Mate Second Class Charles J. Hansen...
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The Rock of the Marne, 100 years ago today
A U.S. Army Machine Gun Team from Company A, Ninth Machine Gun Battalion, 6th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, AEF, man a machine gun set up in railroad shop in Chateau Thierry, France, on...
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The search for Burma’s lost heroes
Burma: The Arakan Campaign January 1943 – May 1945: A soldier at a camouflaged position in the Arakan jungle. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205194218...
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