Real Soldiers
Carpenter jumps, Army wins at USMC Marathon
According to Stars & Stripes, Marine Medal of Honor recipient Kyle Carpenter opened the festivities for the 39th Annual US Marine Corps Marathon yesterday with a parachute jump to the starting line, despite the injuries he suffered when he pounced on a grenade to save his Marine brothers in 2011. After the jump, Kyle went […]
2LT Joshua Nelson saving the world
Zero and Ohio sent us links to the story of Second Lieutenant Joshua Nelson of the West Virginia Air National Guard who made a trip to Walmart to pick up some fish hooks, but it turned into something he’d never expected when he heard a woman in a near aisle call for help; “I could […]
Sergeant Major Robert Gallagher passes
Fox News reports that Sergeant Major Robert Gallagher has passed from a heart condition at the age of 52. He served as the command sergeant major for the Army’s Wounded Warrior Program, but had extensive experience in major combat operations, including Operation Just Cause in Panama and with Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu, Somalia, which […]
Staff Sergeant Nickolas Clarke saving the world
Chief Tango sends us a link to the story of Staff Sergeant Nickolas Clarke, a member of the 6th Ranger Training Battalion who was recuperating from neck surgery at the beach on Okaloosa Island in Florida on the Gulf Coast when duty called; He saw a man in the water about 75 yards out, “flapping […]
William L. Albracht; Three Silver Stars
The other day, we talked about Francis Graham, the former UDT Navy diver and Special forces Vietnam veteran, and it reminded me of a few months ago when a member of the media asked me to check on William L. Albracht, who he’d heard had earned three Silver Stars, so off I went to Military […]
Francis Graham; completely legit
Someone sent us this Francis Graham fellow to check on because the story that he told the local news was implausible. He claimed to be a Navy diver during the Korean War and Special Forces during Vietnam. The article says that he joined the Army Air Corps in 1947, then the Navy when he was […]
1SG Al Marle, yes, he’s legit
It seems that most of my day is taken up with answering emails and Facebook messages about the above pictured First Sergeant Albert Marle, so here’s the answer; yes, he’s a first sergeant assigned to Cadet Command (ROTC) and he’s in the National Guard. If you missed the story, a completely non-story emerged when a […]
CPT Ben Sklaver; someone you should know
Republished from last year; MCPO NYC USN (Ret.) sends us information on a friend who was killed on October 2, 2009 by the name of CPT Ben Sklaver. Apparently he was killed by one of those “insiders”. Here’s his bio from FEMA Region II where he began employment just a few weeks before his last […]
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