These two awesome Spartans make me proud to be a Veteran. They are proving to all of us, disabled or not, that the LIMITS we choose to put on ourselves are of our own making and are MENTAL, NOT PHYSICAL. -SF Two veterans who lost limbs in the Global War on Terror set off to…
Category: Inspirational
Military News: USMC Bomb Sniffing Dog Receives Highest Honor
Lucca is the first U.S. Marine service dog to receive the medal, considered the world’s top honor for war animals. A bomb-sniffing U.S. Marine Corps German shepherd who survived an IED blast while on patrol in Afghanistan was awarded the world’s highest honor for service dogs on April 5. The 12-year-old canine, named Lucca, joins a…
Profiles in Courage: MARSOC Team Endured Hell to Evacuate Wounded
“We faced what seemed the inevitability of death.” While conducting village stability operations in the Upper Gereshk Valley, of Helmand province Afghanistan, a Marine Special Operations Team with 1st Marine Special Operation Battalion came under heavy fire. The initial volley sparked a gunbattle that would rage for a full two days. On the morning of…
Inspirational: Green Beret takes Matters (and the Enemy) Into His Own Hands
Before you lay your head down on your pillow each night, THANK GOD there are men like this roaming around in the night all over the world taking out the trash so you don’t have too. This is also a great lesson in having that combative “killer instinct” attitude when fighting for your life! -SF…
Profiles in Courage: Gisella Perl, The “Angel of Auschwitz”
Forced to work for the notorious Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz, Gisella Perl risked all to save as many lives as she could. This is her incredible, heartbreaking story. We have previously shared the story of Stanislawa Leszczyńska, a midwife at Auschwitz who delivered almost 3,000 babies while imprisoned in the concentration camp. But while…
Inspirational: Ex-Spec-Ops Vets Hunting Down Pedophiles
This NGO is training elite special operations veterans to track down child pornographers and rescue their victims. A group of highly trained and driven veterans, most of whom served among the elite ranks of the military’s special operations forces, are taking the fight to a very specific enemy: individuals who distribute and produce…
Profiles in Courage: Leon Cooper
I first heard about Leon Cooper when a good friend of mine who does work for the American Legion told me to watch a documentary on Netflix called Return to the Philippines: The Leon Cooper Story. After watching it, I immediately did a blog post on it, you can read that HERE. Leon Cooper…
Inspirational: 7 Extreme Survival Stories
From being stranded in the heart of Antartica to three men forced to go further in outer space than any human being has ever gone before, our picks for the most amazing stories of people who pushed the far edges of endurance. The Robertson Family For 38 days, the Robertson family was lost at…
Mission: Welcome Home
This is an awesome story and a worthwhile cause, please donate a couple bucks to it and let’s all help this story get told worldwide! -SF Marine Raiders Film at Indiegogo Kat Croft befriended a Marine Raider. After his death, she was witness to the way his brothers in arms welcomed him home from…
Profiles in Courage: The WW2 Draft Dodger Who Turned War Hero
This is one amazing story and one of the reasons I absolutely Love Military History, specifically, WW2 History! -SF Years ago, when I first came home, I decided it would be a good thing for me to write a book. My first project, still unfinished, and now my 3rd project had the working…