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U-boats were still in their infancy in 1914, and most naval officers looked down on the fleet. At best, they were considered defensive weapons that could help hold an enemy fleet away from the coasts. But then, on Sept. 22, 1914,
Almost a year before America was attacked at Pearl Harbor and officially joined World war II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent his top aide to London to promise aid to Prime Minister Winston Churchill with a slightly amended Bible quote. This wa…
If you mess up just one glorious time in the U.S. military, your friends and peers will never let you forget it. It's always been this way, even in World War II. From November 1943 until she was lost in 1945, the destroyer USS William D. Porter…
Master Sergeant George Hand US Army (ret) was a member of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, The Delta Force. He is a now a master photographer, cartoonist and storyteller.It was 1994 when my Delta Troop and I were …
We love movies! That's exactly why studios spend millions of dollars making them. As long our eyes are glued to the silver screen, they'll continue to put out blockbuster after blockbuster. Some film moments, however, don't land well with the au…
Awarded, as always, with reverence.
The NBA playoffs are heating up, and you know what that means...Every on-base basketball court in the country now has some dude who: screams for the ball, dives at your knees, and calls a foul whenever anyone gets near him. He wears brand new…
It happens so often, it is almost routine. An aircraft is trying to take out a ground target, and moves in to drop its bombs. The bombs then leave the plane, head down to the ground, and blow the target into smithereens. That's how it's supposed t…
It's funny how the older Custer can be so infamous for his worst military blunder, while his brother Thomas Ward can earn two Medals of Honor and practically be lost to history.
"Once the pin is pulled, Mr. Hand Grenade is no longer your friend." In war, troops who cover enemy grenades (or badly-thrown friendly grenades) with their own bodies have usually been awarded the Medal of Honor. Some lived, but all too…
