Category: Military History

U.S. Air Force pararescuemen, 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, secure the area after being lowered from a U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk during a mission Nov. 7, 2012, in Afghanistan. Pararescue teams assault, secure, and dominate the rescue objective area using any available Department of Department or Allied, air, land, or sea asset. U.S. Air […]

A U.S. Air Force pararescueman, 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, scans for ground threats during a mission Nov. 7, 2012, over Afghanistan. Pararescue teams assault, secure, and dominate the rescue objective area using any available Department of Defense or Allied, air, land, or sea asset. U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder

U.S. and Polish Special Operations Forces Soldiers move across a field to their objective as a Lithuanian Mi-17 helicopter hovers above during a casualty evacuation exercise rehearsal held Oct. 14 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany. Image courtesy of the U.S. Army

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A Special Operations Forces sniper team engages targets at varying distances over a barrier during the United States Army Special Operations Command’s International Sniper Competition, where 23, two-man teams from special-operations, foreign-partners and law enforcement agencies put their skills to the test, March 20-24. Photo courtesy of USAJFKSWCS

Members of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) which has been monitoring the ongoing wars in Iraq and Syria have stated that they have “grave fears” for more than 1300 foreign women and children, family members of ISIS who have been detained by the Iraqi government as they tried to flee the country. The families had […]

Reports of the death of Stanislav Petrov hit the news yesterday. For a man whose decision might very well have saved the planet from nuclear annihilation, it is kind of sad that the reports were four months late. Mr. Petrov died in May, but the news did not reach the press at that time. 34 […]

A special operations combat medic from the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) rappels down a cliff side at a Fort Carson, Colorado training area to retrieve a mock-casualty during medical evacuation training Nov. 9. During the two-day training event, medics from 10th SFG(A) were placed in several different scenarios and tested on a variety of […]

President Trump and his wife Melania saluted America’s airmen at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Friday, ahead of the 70th birthday of the U.S. Air Force on Monday. The First Lady began the event by taking to the stage and thanking “the brave men and women who wear the noble uniform of the U.S. […]

This is how he repaid the infidels: A second suspect was arrested on Saturday in connection with the subway attack at London’s Parsons Green station that left 30 people injured, officials announced on Sunday as the city’s terror threat level is downgraded to “severe.” A 21-year-old man was arrested late Saturday night in Hounslow in […]

On Sunday night, KPBS will launch the first of a ten-part, 18-hour presentation by film makers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on the Vietnam War. In recent weeks they have hosted numerous preview clips at private screenings from the series across the country from Los Angeles to New York City and smaller venues in San […]

Staff Sgt. Eric Smith, who retired from the United States Marine Corps before becoming a firefighter in Irving, Texas, had his Silver Star upgraded to a Navy Cross in a recent ceremony presided over by Maj. Gen. Paul Kennedy, head of Marine Corps Recruiting Command.  The Navy Cross is the second highest valor award a […]

One clear day in May 1968, Green Berets Glen O. Lane and Robert Owen, boarded a South Vietnamese Air Force H-34 helicopter along with four South Vietnamese team members and flew west from the top secret MACV-SOG FOB 1 base in Phu Bai near the China Sea, into a target in Laos where communist forces […]