War Stories
Machine Gunner Hits ISIS Target From 1.5 Mile Away
This story kind of writes itself. Nice photos in the article, too. https://tribunist.com/military/special-forces-sniper-obliterates-isis-commander-from-1-5-miles-away-using-40-year-old-machine-gun/ From the article: The Browning .50 Machine Gun is an ancient and well respected workhorse for allied troops. Some variation of the old M2 has been in service since its inception before World War II. The gun is most often thought of […]
Iranian Navy defeating the U.S. Navy? A message from 30 years ago
Three years ago, the Iranians demonstrated how they were going to defeat the U.S. Navy. Center to their demonstration was a life-sized mock aircraft carrier. Just sitting there waiting to be punished. Their media was there, so where high-ranking Iranian politicians, generals, and admirals. Then, their demonstrations began. One wave of war craft after another […]
50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive
For those of you who were there at the time, I’m reposting this from last year. The Lunar Festival of Tet in Vietnam begins every year in late January. At 02:00 hours local time on the morning of January 30, 1968, the NVA began shelling every ville, town and military base in South Vietnam. It had […]
“…but, Mom, if we go to war…”
Photo: NSArchives Guess who is upset with the US for dropping a Very Large Bomb on the Afghan-Paki border in a spot where ISIS is known to hold its confabs? Why, none other than the former president of Afghanistan, Karzai himself. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/17/former-afghan-president-massive-us-bomb-was-an-atrocity.html He says the GBU-43 (Giant Bomb Until-exploded #43) MOAB is an atrocity. I […]
Twenty-six years ago tonight
This is republished from six years ago; Twenty years ago, Task Force 1-41 Infantry attached to the Third Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division (from the Third Brigade of the 2d Armored Division (Forward)), was the only US unit in Iraq. We were fifteen clicks from the Saudi border, screening for the sweep east of […]
War Stories, Sea Stories
I see that some of you are just hanging around, waiting for me to post the WOT. It’s coming. In the meantime, this spot is some place where you can drop your stories that start with “Back when I was in the shit….” and go from there. That D-Day stuff like the box of sand […]
This ain’t your ol’ daddy’s Herky Bird…
by Poetrooper When my unit was calling in gunships for close air support, those birds were usually old C-47’s, hold-over troop transports from WWII, armed and configured for this new mission. Sometime after I left Vietnam, that gunship role was taken over by the C-130 Hercules, an aircraft I knew as the best jumping platform […]
The Fog of War
This article from Cherries takes a look at the battle for the Ia Drang Valley, which was the subject of ‘We Were Soldiers Once and Young’, from the Vietnamese perspective. The NVA thought they had won, and the US said otherwise. Originally published in 2001. For those of you who were in country, I […]
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