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[brid video="114080" player="7965" title="War Ink The Unwanted"]Chris Markowski is a Marine who served in Iraq less than ten months after graduating from high school. Markowski's unit deployed with 48 men, but only 18 returned alive or uninju…
General William Tecumseh Sherman's military legacy rests on a lot more than just killing the enemy. Of course, he helped change how the United States would wage war in the next 80 years. His name would also later adorn one of …
"I learned about the Semper Fi Fund through a class I was in at Camp Pendleton, California, to learn more about traumatic brain injuries and how they affect you," says Sergeant Nora Mund, who was deployed to Afghanistan for seven months in 2010. …
By all accounts, Vietnam combat veteran John P. Baca
[brid video="114077" player="7965" title="Bob Hope_1.mp4"]Bob Hope was among the brightest stars during his era. He was known for his comedic one-liners and performances over a long career in entertainment. He passed away in 2003 at…
"Consider that, first of all, you are a United States Marine. That is the beginning," Joseph Owen said just days before his death in August 2015. He said it as if he were addressing all Marines. "You are something beyond ordina…
[brid video="114076" player="7965" title="Mighty Minute Jeffrey Conn"]The battle for Shal Mountain, dubbed "Operation Rugged Sarak," went from Oct. 8-15, 2011. Shal Mountain sat above Shal Valley and controlled two important supply routes, …
Eric Greitens — a Navy SEAL; Rhodes scholar; White House Fellow; founder of the veterans organization The Mission Continues; author; and one of
[brid video="114079" player="7965" title="War Ink Bombs to Butterflies"]Jeff Slater was an Army small weapons expert who served in Iraq. He later volunteered for route clearance duty where his job was to intentionally run over IEDs. …
Bob Hope was among the brightest stars during his era. He was known for his comedic one-liners and performances over a long career in entertainment. He passed away in 2003 at the age of 100 but left a legacy of humor and humanitar…
People who love military documentaries can never seem to get enough of them. But there are only so many good ones out there. There's a reason every new history or military channel on TV turns into "The World War II Channel" for the fi…
A note from a 1955 Ballantine Book remarked about how one author – a former serviceman – arrived in their New York offices with his Stars and Stripes drawings and a story of a "brilliant military career, where he rose through the ranks to beco…
Three nurses and a physician's assistant have resigned from an Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs facility after maggots were discovered in a veteran's wound. The center in Talihina, Oklahoma, has reportedly had staffing issues.
Is Russia really flying combat missions from the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov? That is a question percolating as recent satellite photos caught some of the planes that are known to operate from the carrier at a land base, as opposed to operat…
President-elect Donald Trump selected retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, the former commander of United States Southern Command, to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security. The president-elect is slated to make a formal announcement next wee…
