Category: Military News

The Special Air Service (SAS) operator who responded to and stopped a terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya, in January will receive the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (CGC). The CGC is Britain’s second-highest military award for valor in combat and second only to the Victoria Cross. On January 16, four terrorists associated with the al-Shabaab terrorist group […]

“After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank thea, under the shade of some apple trees…he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasion’d by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative […]

Airborne student to instructor: “Sergeant, if our main parachute doesn’t open, how much time do I have to deploy my reserve parachute?” Instructor: “The rest of your life, private… the rest of your life.” Low-altitude parachute operations in the regular army airborne units are hours of pain and terror followed by approximately 30-second of a […]

It didn’t take long for a central theme to emerge at the funeral of U.S. Marine Pfc. Joseph Livermore, an event attended by hundreds of area residents Friday at Union Cemetery in Bakersfield. It’s a theme that stems from a widespread local belief that the men and women who have served in the nation’s armed […]

In July of 1947, something fell from the sky and crash landed in Mack Brazel’s ranch, just northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. According to the official story, it was an experimental weather balloon. If you listen to the long list of conspiracy theories surrounding the event, it was a spaceship from another world, crewed by […]

“Star Trek: The Next Generation” has long been established as among scientists and inventors alike as one of the most influential television series. The original Star Trek series predicted flip-phones, and, much like its predecessor, TNG predicted tablet and voice interface computers, hyposprays, and a long list of other once seemingly impossible inventions that have […]

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), finally decided enough was enough and took out Islamic Jihad leader Baha Abu al-Ata during an airstrike this week. They thus terminated the threat that more than anyone or anything else had disrupted cease-fire talks along Israel’s southern border. While Hamas, Egypt, and Israel were trying to broker a ceasefire […]

Thor, right, one of retired Navy SEAL Trevor Maroshek’s canine-partners, sits next to a bronze statue honoring military working dogs and their handlers in Veterans Park. Thor is one of Chopper’s offspring. Chopper is credited with saving American forces from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) while deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with Maroshek. This article was […]

An Air Force Special Tactics combat controller that “delivered thousands of pounds of munition” during a close-range 2007 firefight in Afghanistan was awarded the Silver Star on Friday. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Chris Grove, 720th Special Tactics Group superintendent, was presented with the Silver Star on Friday for valorous actions during a “disastrous” enemy […]

This article should start with the statement that this isn’t an attack on Major General Robert Scales at all. Scales recently wrote an intriguing piece on how to try to “bottle SOF” and make our United States infantry units in the Army and Marine Corps as good as our SOF operators.  Scales earned a Silver […]