Category: War Stories

Russia will not break me, and I will carry the fight against its lies and brutality wherever I can.

Paris Davis proved that real leadership isn’t about chasing medals, but about carrying your men through hell and refusing to let history forget it.

From singing to goats to reenacting Disney scenes, soldiers find humor and absurdity to survive the long, boring hours between the battles.

In Panjwai, I faced the fallout of my sergeant’s massacre—soldiers aged by war, daily Taliban attacks, and a burden I could never erase.

Nightmares follow veterans home. We survive the war, but the aftermath—the trauma, the memories—stays with us every day.

Beneath the chaos of Afghanistan, my trusted platoon sergeant turned into the man behind the deadliest U.S. war crime since Vietnam.

My first platoon sergeant committed the biggest war crime since Vietnam—and I was his platoon leader. Here’s how I got there.

Rangers on Ambien at 36,000 feet—sleepwalking, eating unpeeled oranges, and even climbing the C-17 mid-flight.

Hanging by a cheek on an MH-6 Little Bird, a sniper recalls the cold, chaos, and grit of flying with the Night Stalkers.

In the desert’s crucible, where ego burned away, I discovered that truth itself could be the strongest shield a man might carry.

Chuck was the kind of man who’d tell you he was a nice guy, and damn if he didn’t prove it every time, right up until the day the universe decided it was done with him.

I climbed the stairs with my heart hammering, every step a reminder that being unarmed in a gunfight is a special kind of helpless.