Congress approves Arlington monument honoring Vietnam War helicopter crew members

The Vietnam War was highly controversial but for the military members who served in the conflict they deserve to be honored and remembered by a grateful nation for their sacrifices. Helicopters played a major role in Vietnam and now Congress has approved a monument to be displayed at Arlington National Cemetery to honor all who […]

Special Forces Detachment Korea: Did South Korea send infiltrators north? (Part 10)

Read Part 9 Here American Special Forces would be providing direct action and strategic reconnaissance support to the Korean Special Forces during the war, however, they would not be sending infiltrators into North Korea. Instead, they would be aiding and assisting their partner forces. The Americans perceived “the war as being initiated by the North. Our biggest […]

Special Forces Detachment Korea: The Det gets orphaned in Korea! (Part 8)

Read Part 7 Here As a Confucian society, one of the problems that many in the South Korean military faced was, and continues to persist, that they are not free thinkers. Their Special Forces are task organized like 12-man American Special Forces teams but their mission is more direct action than unconventional warfare. This makes […]

ZB-37 Machinegun: Shootable history

There are times when being a gun writer really pays off, one of those times is when your friend calls and asks if you want to go with him to the range to shoot a piece of living history in the form of a captured German ZB-37 machine gun. The ZB-37 was originally produced in […]

Sergeant Stubby: Original dog of war

His eyes seemed to light up as he watched the group of young soldiers march in unison on that Yale field in New Haven, Connecticut. It was another one of those long days where he’d abandoned his search for food to arrive at the sidelines and witness the orderly procession. He sat there alone, lost […]

One of America’s first—and most memorable—spies: Nathan Hale

In 1776, George Washington sought out a volunteer to infiltrate enemy lines prior to the Battle of Harlem Heights in New York. A Yale-educated captain from Connecticut’s 19th Regiment of the Continental Army stepped up. His name was Nathan Hale. He would become one of the first American spies of the Revolutionary War. Hale was instrumental […]

Special Forces Detachment Korea: South Korea deploys to Vietnam (Part 6)

Read Part 5 Here In order to understand North Korean thinking, it must be stated that they have a guerrilla mindset derived from state-sponsored propaganda about the Kim family. Kim Il-sung positioned himself as an anti-Japanese guerrilla who served in a sniper unit, killing the oppressors of the Korean people—a claim that is historically dubious […]