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Before my first deployment, I heard all kinds of horror stories about lettuce sandwiches, green powdered eggs, and sludge-like coffee. When I wasn’t MREating, I found myself at the DFAC,
In April 1951, Lt. Dave Teich heard a call from about 65 U.S. Army soldiers from the 8th Ranger Company. They were completely cut off from the rest of the… In 1952, Lt. Col. A.J. D’Amario took off from an airstrip at Suwon, Korea in a F-80 Shooting Star jet fighter. It wasn’t supposed to be a big deal. He… When communist North Korea suddenly invaded South Korea in June 1950, the aggression became a test of resolve for the newly-formed United Nations. Led by the United States and South… War prisoners are expected to just survive day-to-day. But some prisoners say screw that and find ways to make the prison easier for their peers and more frustrating for their enemies.
Happy 69th BRRRRRRRRRRThday, U.S. Air Force! In a very special episode of “things you didn’t know,” Team Mighty decided to give a shout out to the youngest branch of the U.S. military and fill in the blanks to help people, civilians and non-Airm… The history of warfare is full of heroic last stands. From the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae to the Texians and Tejanos at the Alamo, numerically inferior forces have stood up… To look at Yi Sun-sin’s earliest military training records, one might likely conclude that he would be a less than spectacular military officer. Not only did he fail his military… On November 30, 1950, the United States was deeply entrenched in the Korean War after suffering a surprise attack on its troops. On this day, President Truman issued the thinly veiled… The United States wasn’t the most dominant country on Earth from the get-go. For most of our nearly 243-year history, in fact, we lived by the skin of our teeth. It’s a relatively recent development where some other country can call out for the bl…An Army officer disobeyed orders and stole four tanks to save 65 soldiers in Korea
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