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Mar 19, 2021

This soldier survived being impaled by an RPG

March 16, 2006 started like most days for the soldiers of Alpha Company, 2/87 Infantry, 10th Mountain Division. A small patrol received their mission briefing and headed out to meet the elders of a remote village in Paktika Province, Afgh…

BYJames Elphick

Mar 19, 2021

BYLogan Nye

Mar 12, 2021

This airman saved 23 wounded troops during an insider attack

American and Afghan forces were briefing each other at a forward operating base on March 11, 2013, about that day’s mission when machine gun rounds suddenly rained down on them. The group immediately looked to see where the shots were co…

BYLogan Nye

Mar 12, 2021

BYTeam Mighty

Feb 12, 2021

This Marine single-handedly cleared a rooftop after his squad was pinned down In Fallujah

During the second battle of Fallujah, then-Marine Pfc. Christopher Adlesperger singlehandedly cleared part of a house fille…

BYTeam Mighty

Feb 12, 2021

BYLogan Nye

Dec 9, 2020

That time an F-16 pilot saved ground troops with a sonic boom

America’s F-16 multi-role fighters are some of the most advanced aircraft on the planet, carrying precision weapons and using them to kill bad guys around the world. But in March 2003, two F-16 pilots were called to assist 52 British spe…

BYLogan Nye

Dec 9, 2020

BYLogan Nye

Sep 1, 2020

These American units will be first on the scene if World War III erupts

It seems like every week brings another potential flashpoint for global conflict. North Korea acts like it wants to go 12 rounds over its nuclear program. China threatens war to protect its control of Taiwan and the South China Sea. Russia stages ma…

BYLogan Nye

Sep 1, 2020

BYToday I Found Out

Jul 13, 2020

Audie Murphy held off waves of armor and troops while atop a burning tank

There’s a very good reason Audie Murphy is one of the most decorated veterans to every wear the US Army uniform. Murphy was born on June 20, 1925 in Texas. His family was extremely poor, partially due to having twelve young mouths to fee…

BYToday I Found Out

Jul 13, 2020

BYBlake Stilwell

Feb 5, 2020

How a one-armed Gurkha fought 200 Japanese troops with a bolt-action rifle

The martial tradition, training, and dominating warrior spirit of Gurkhas means they will do things in a fight that wouldn’t occur to even the most seasoned combat veterans. Gurkhas will fight outnumbered; they will fight outgunned. They hold their…

BYBlake Stilwell

Feb 5, 2020

BYLogan Nye

Feb 5, 2020

How long the US military would last in a war against the rest of the world

What would happen if the U.S. found itself facing off against the rest of the world? Not just its traditional rivals, but what if it had to fight off its allies like the United Kingdom, France, and South Korea as well? <p class="shortcode-m…

BYLogan Nye

Feb 5, 2020

BYLogan Nye

Feb 5, 2020

This soldier took out a pillbox using only one small bomb and combat knife

U.S. Army Pfc. Michael J. Perkins silenced seven enemy machine guns and captured 25 German troops when he rushed a pillbox with just a small bomb and a trench knife in 1918. Company D of the 101st Infantry was assaulting German lines in B…

BYLogan Nye

Feb 5, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Feb 5, 2020

Upgrades complete for the Air Force’s massive C-5 Galaxies

Lockheed Martin said in early August 2018 that the last of 52 upgraded C-5M Super Galaxy cargo planes had been delivered to the Air Force, finishing the nearly two-decade-long modernization of the service’s largest plane. Lockheed began work …

BYBusiness Insider

Feb 5, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Feb 5, 2020

Russia’s new hypersonic missiles already leaked to spies

Russia’s Federal Security Service reportedly suspects that plans for two of Russia’s new, game-changing hypersonic missiles have been leaked to Western spies. Russia’s Ministry of Defense on July 19, 2018, released new footage of two o…

BYBusiness Insider

Feb 5, 2020

BYTim Kirkpatrick

Feb 5, 2020

This SEAL was shot 27 times before walking himself to the medevac

Deploying to a war zone is a risky proposition, even for the most highly trained commandos like SEALs. While on deployment in Ira…

BYTim Kirkpatrick

Feb 5, 2020

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Feb 12, 2018

Russia wants to refurbish its piece-of-garbage carrier

The Russian Navy’s lone aircraft carrier, the Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov, is heading to the shop to get some upgrades. Let’s be honest, if you’ve loyally followed We Are the Mighty, then you likely know a thing or two abou…

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Feb 12, 2018