Real Soldiers
Abandoned in Hell; the radio traffic
The other day, I wrote a little about Bill Albracht and his experiences at Firebase Kate. So, yesterday, I put the two files that I have of the radio traffic and put them on YouTube. The first video is of the conversations between Bill (callsign Chickenhawk) and Al Dykes (callsign Spooky 41) the Spooky gunship […]
Soldiers saving the world
Chief Tango sends us three stories about folks in the Army and in the National Guard who earned Soldiers Medals for saving folks in their respective communities, you know stories that aren’t about crazed gun men suffering from specters of their pasts – the stories you don’t usually read about soldiers these days. The first […]
William Albracht; Abandoned in Hell
I know I’ve been AWOL a little this weekend, but some friends of Bill Albracht sent me a mountain of documentation for his book “Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam’s Firebase Kate” that is due out next month. I had the privilege of listening to the radio traffic between Captain Albracht, the new commander […]
Guardmen rescue flag from Ferguson protesters
Stars & Stripes recounts the story from two weeks ago when Missouri National Guardsmen Major Lance Dell and Sergeant First Class Eric Allison rescued a burning American flag from protesters in Ferguson; “They treated the flag like it was trash,” Allison said. “It’s not trash to us.” […] Dell, 46, and Allison, 43, are full-time […]
Unrewarded Valor
At a time of so much racial strife and discord, we should never lose sight of the fact that our military forces were the first, and remain the best, example of a fully integrated America. Yes there are problems from time to time, but there are few other places in our society where blacks, whites […]
Army Specialist Five Karen Irene Offutt
I learn an awful lot from blogging. When I was a young NCO, I learned that the best way to learn how accomplish a task is to teach it, because of the stuff you learn from preparing your classes. So, it is with blogging, I suppose. Doug Sterner emailed us another phony yesterday who happened […]
SFC Alwyne Cashe and the MoH – Maybe We Can Help
I trust everyone reading this saw Jonn’s article about SFC Alwyne Cashe the other day. If not, you need follow the link and read it – now – along with the LA Times article to which Jonn links. While I trust that the Army will eventually do the right thing, that’s not a lock. Even […]
Alwyn Cashe’s Medal of Honor moves slowly forward
The LA Times, in their own way reports that Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe is still in the running for an award of the Medal of Honor, nearly a decade after he gave his life to save his troops from his burning Bradley. This has been my personal crusade – you know because Cashe and […]
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