Real Soldiers
Army Captain Florent A. Groberg to receive Medal of Honor
In August, 2012, Army Captain Florent A. Groberg, while leading a personal security detail for his commander, tackled a suicide bomber whose detonation caused a second bomber to detonate prematurely and saving most of the people he was supposed to protect. He was wounded himself and spent three years at Walter Reed recovering from that […]
SFC Martland’s appeal rejected
According to Fox News, Sergeant First Class Charles Martland whose discharge was ordered because he confronted a child-abusing Afghan police chief in 2011, has lost in his appeal process. The Army denies that reason has ended the 11-year veteran’s special forces career; Gen. John F. Campbell, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said in a […]
Meet CSM Homero Garza
Someone sent us a link to the Killeen Daily Herald about this fellow, Homero Garza who lives in the vicinity of Fort Hood, Texas. His story did sound too good to be true at first. He claims that he was in the Korean War and then went on to Vietnam. That he had two Silver […]
Paul Royle, Stalag Luft III escapee passes
Ex-Garbage Gun Shooter sends us the sad news of the passing of Paul Royle at the tender age of 101 years. He was an Australian survivor of “The Great Escape” from Stalag Luft III in what is now Poland, but in 1944 it was in the German Provence of Lower Silesia. He had been one […]
Carlos Mullen saving the world
David sends us a link to Fox News which reports that Carlos Mullen, an Army veteran is being credited with saving the life of a six-year-old when the child had drowned in the pool at a resort where Mullen and his fiance were staying; Carlos Mullen and his fiancée Christina Lamothe were on the third […]
USAF “Honors” A1C Spencer Stone – With a Noncombat Decoration
We all know that two American military personnel – A1C Spencer Stone and SPC Alek Skarlatos, Oregon ARNG – along with a civilian friend, Anthony Sadler recently were instrumental in stopping a terrorist massacre on a French train. Specifically, they disarmed a terrorist armed with an AK-47, a pistol, and a box cutter who was […]
SFC Leigh Ann Hester returns from combat again
Sergeant First Class Leigh Ann Hester, of the Army National Guard has returned from another combat deployment in the war against terror. If her name sounds familiar, its because she was the first woman to earn a Silver Star Medal since World War II back in 2005 for her valor in Iraq when the convoy […]
Timothy Spayd; Ranger School instructor
TSO sends us a link to the Washington Post which tells the story of Ranger School instructor Sergeant Timothy Spayd, who happens to have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Spayd is no typical instructor. A former active-duty sergeant, he was adopted two years ago by soldiers of the 6th […]
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