Real Soldiers
President to award two Medals of Honor on June 2, 2015
The White House announces today that two more Medals of Honor will be awarded to two heroes of the Great War; Sergeant William Shemin of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, and then-Private (now Sergeant) Henry Lincoln “Black Death” Johnson of Company C, 369th Infantry Regiment, 93rd Division will receive the awards […]
Colonel Melvin Garten passes
David sends us a link to the sad news that Melvin Garten has passed. Colonel Garten was described as the most decorated colonel in the Army at the time he retired. He began his military service as an enlisted soldier during World War II. In the ensuing years, he says that his wife had received […]
Brandon Valle; saving the world
When Leo Labogen’s cheese slid off his cracker the other day at the University of Nebraska’s Criss library, Army soldier, Brandon Valle was there to put a damper on the lunatic’s threats to start cutting people with the three knives that Labogen was brandishing in reaction to library patrons who asked Labogen to take his […]
SFC Lynnette Hobson-Shearwood saving the world
Someone sent us a link on our Facebook page to the story of Sergeant First Class Lynnette Hobson-Shearwood assigned to the Supply Support Activity Platoon, Alpha Company, 501st Brigade Support Battalion at Fort Bliss, TX. She came home one night and heard sobbing coming from the neighbor’s yard; She saw a child, around age 2 […]
Abandoned in Hell news
Bill Albracht, the author and central figure in the book Abandoned in Hell, about his Vietnam War experiences during a few days in November, 1969, was on Fox and Friends the other morning. Here’s the interview, if you missed it; If you haven’t read the book yet, shame on you, but there’s a documentary based […]
Sergeant Gregory La Fleur & Staff Sergeant Kenneth Kam saving the world
Two Army sergeants were awarded the Soldiers Medal for their “heroism not involving actual conflict with an enemy”. The first is Sergeant Gregory La Fleur of the 7th Special Forces Group who earned the medal for subduing a gunman on Eglin Air Force Base, despite the gunman’s repeated attempts to ventilate the good sergeant. Staff […]
Victoria Cross for Lance Corporal Leakey
The UK’s Daily Mail reports that Queen of England has presented the Victoria Cross to Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey of the 1st Para. The Queen remarked that she doesn’t award many of the Victoria Crosses, but Joshua Leakey’s cousin, Nigel Leakey, was also awarded one 70 years ago. Despite the fact that three of the […]
David Bryant; Marine veteran saving the world
Tequila Volare sends us a link from FoxAtlanta about David Bryant, a UPS employee and an Afghanistan veteran of the Marine Corps variety. He was out driving his route yesterday, when he saw an elderly woman lying alongside the road – she was choking on a piece of food. Bryant leaped from his truck, not […]
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