From the page together we served created by Major Mark Cooper SGM Walter L. Shumate was born in Pocahontas, Virginia on September 20, 1934. He began his military career in February 1952 as an Airborne Infantryman and was assigned to the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team (Rakassans), serving in the Korean War. He later served …
Master Sgt. Jole Alvarez, an Advanced Skills Instructor at 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) recently graduated Ranger School at Fort Benning ,Ga., at the age of 42. What’s Harder… Ranger School or the Special Forces Qualification Course? And what’s the Difference? Life is a special operation Having a Ranger Tab and the Special Forces Tab, …
USS Hudner A Tale of Two Pilots By Elizabeth M. Collins, Defense Media Activity Trailing oil, the Corsair plummeted toward the frozen peaks below, deep behind enemy lines in North Korea. The snow-covered slopes loomed closer and closer as the pilot dropped his bombs, hoping to avoid an explosion on impac Bang! The plane slammed …
An officer in Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward “Eddie” Gallagher’s chain of command has alleged that Gallagher not only stabbed to death a teenage wounded Islamic State POW during a 2017 deployment to Iraq, but he also called in “false target coordinates to engage a mosque,” tried to push his platoon into pointless and potentially catastrophic firefights …
