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Valor Friday
Riverine Assault Craft. Mason is taking a well deserved break from his Valor Friday articles, as he is shifting colors to his new AO. Moving, in other words. I know what he’d rather be doing. Until he’s back up, y’all will have to put up with my ramblings on the subject. For today’s VF we […]
Valor Friday
Today Mason “Crosses the Tee” as it were, with his third post of those who have been awarded the Congressional Medal Of Honor more than once. Mason Part three of our series on men who have received two Medals of Honor (MoH) continues. We’ve so far explored the five men who received Medals of Honor […]
Marine sees two high school kids fighting and responds in the most Marine Corps way possible
Mason sends us a heartwarming story about a young Marine on hometown recruiting duty at his Stockton, California High School. He sees a couple of students going knuckles, and ends the fight in a manner not at all surprising to us who know and love our Leathernecks. Oooh-Rah! By: Jeff Schogol Marine tackles kids fighting […]
Valor Friday
It’s Friday, and Mason has come through for us once again. Today we honor Guy Gabaldon, Corporal USMC, and his incredible saga on the island of Saipan. Mason Born in 1926 in East Los Angeles, Guy Gabaldon had an unconventional upbringing. Being of Mexican descent and one of seven children, he helped his family make […]
Valor Friday
Witold Pilecki Mason has done it again, this time with the incredible saga of Witold Pilecki, a Polish Freedom Fighter before, during and after World War Two. He fought Nazis and Russians in their turn, was even willingly incarcerated in Auschwitz to gather intell on the conditions there. Enough from me, here’s.. Mason As this […]
Valor Friday
Free France WWII For today’s Valor Friday, Mason brings us to Occupied France during WWII, and the clandestine Freedom Fighters, or La Résistance. These men and women did their best to make German lives in Occupied France as miserable as possible. Mason, as usual, has done an outstanding job with his research, and brings life […]
Valor Friday
Mason, Of all the heroes that have graced these pages, the mantle of “ordinary men doing extraordinary things” never fit better. *grin* AW1Ed Mason Everyone who’s served in the Air Force knows of the perpetual screw up “Airman Snuffy”. Snuffy is the foul up who can’t get anything right, forgets to salute officers, and is […]
Army Gen. Stephen Townsend takes over command of AFRICOM
Gen. Stephen Townsend is pictured in Wyvern, Mosul, Iraq. (Photo/ETHAN HUTCHINSON/U.S. ARMY handout) Poetrooper sends us a couple articles on General Townsend as he takes the helm at AFRICOM, where he’ll oversee U.S. military relations with African nations and coordinate security missions with regional partners. “To say that we ask a lot of this team […]
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