The fighting spirit of this haircut is sadly unauthorized
The Mohawk is as intertwined with the military history of Airborne paratroopers as the playing card. To this day, a debate rages about which unit shaved t…
What happened when 200 insurgents attacked these 49 Americans
It would go on to be known as the Battle of Wanat, the most costly single engagement for U.S. forces in Afghanistan to that point. Nine U.S. soldiers would make the ultimate …
That time Rangers stole a bulldozer for an assault vehicle
In 1983, Rangers were on the point of the spear during a mission to protect American citizens in Grenada in 1983, attacking a key airfield that was being expanded by Cuban engineers. When the Rangers began to fight the engineers, the Rangers hotwire…
The US plan to train nuclear suicide bomber paratroopers
It’s an idea as old as nuclear weapons themselves: If you could slip a nuke into a city and detonate it, the enemy would never know it was coming. No missiles detected, no early warning radar, just one day: BOOM. In Cold War lore, these man-portabl…
That time a dangling paratrooper was rescued by open-top biplane
People on the sidewalks of San Diego and at several nearby military facilities stared, transfixed, into the sky as a Marine R2D-1 transport plane slowly circled the area with what one witness later called “a queer whirligig” dangling beneath its t…
These were America’s first African-American paratroopers
During World War II a company of service soldiers became the world’s first black paratroopers and then made history as smokejumpers.
<img src="https://…
12 awesome photos of troops jumping out of perfectly good airplanes
Falling out of a perfectly good airplane is what airborne soldiers call “work.”
While most Marines and…
How 87 paratroopers captured one of the world’s strongest forts
Belgium’s Fort Eben-Emael was the crown jewel of the country’s defense from invasion, boasting huge gun emplacements, defensive ditches and canals, and hundreds of artillery troops, all to protect the heartland and capital.
And the whol…
How these paratroopers came to be called ‘The Rock Regiment’
The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment is unique in the annals of airborne history. It was one of only two parachute regiments to fight in the Pacific during World War II and the only one still active today.
<p class="shortcode-me…
The paradummy that distracted the Germans on D-Day
The Chinese military strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu said, “All warfare is based on deception.” Like a trick play in football, it’s best to deceive your enemy in order to safeguard your true intentions. One of the greatest modern military examples of this principle is the allied landing at Normandy on D-Day during WWII. Operation … Continued