Veteran Culture

We, humans, have different ways of commemorating our deceased loved ones. One way is by leaving coins on the gravestones.

Green Beret and Medal of Honor recipient Gary Beikirch passed away the day after Christmas after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 72. His heroic actions as a Special Forces Medic in an isolated village of Montagnards in Vietnam are the stuff of legends. Badly wounded himself and unable to stand or walk, he had himself carried to various casualties in order to treat their wounds.

Many people will either be hosting or heading out to holiday parties and get-togethers to celebrate Christmas and the upcoming New Year. Others will take the time to rest and recharge their batteries and spend some quiet time at home.  If you are one of the latter and want to spend some quiet time reading […]

Brian Hudson gives a funny take on how deploying to so many bases and so many places make it hard to remember sometimes where you actually are settled in finally.

What should you do if you get caught in a nuclear attack? Here is a list of things that you should (and shouldn’t) do if it ever happens.

The Marine Corps released a new document containing recruitment strategies that may let some future Marines skip boot camp.

The Air Force has discharged twenty-seven enlisted airmen for refusal to get the COVID vaccine. This occurred during the ongoing battle playing out in the courts, the media and in Congress over government authority to issue such mandates in the first place.

Historians tend to lay most of the blame for Nazi atrocities at the feat of the Waffen SS, but the “Wehrmacht” or regular army was more than capable of rapacity and mass slaughter as well. Especially the anti-partisan units the Germans sent to occupy Greece in WWII.

The origins of the National Guard are older than America itself as a country. At 385 years old, the National Guard is the nation’s oldest military branch.

Why are we seeing so many senior officers being replaced for “A lack of confidence” in their leadership qualities these days? It’s a system that is supposed to weed out weak leaders before they can be in a position to do real harm. Maybe the way we now evaluate leadership has changed and we didn’t notice it.

SOFREP’s resident Football expert and Senior Editor Steve Balestrieri gives you the rundown on the 122nd Army-Navy football game.

General Bipin Rawat the Chief of Staff of the Indian military has been killed with at least eleven others in a fiery helicopter crash in northern India. General Rawat, was traveling with his wife and staff to the Defense Services Staff College in Wellington in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to deliver a lecture. He was sixty-three years old and came from a family of distinguished military service.