Rodney Buentello, a retired Marine master sergeant, is being hailed a hero after sacrificing his life to save others. A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help the family of retired Marine Master Sgt. Rodney Buentello, a Marine Corps veteran and Purple Heart recipient, who drowned after rescuing two teens, in Bandera City, Texas, on…
Category: Profiles in Courage
Another Reason To Be Armed: The Long List of Examples of How Armed Citizens SAVED Cops Lives
This list unequivocally legitimizes why I end every article with the signature “Stay Armed”! Remember, an Armed Civilian is a CITIZEN, an UNARMED one is a SUBJECT! -SF This list was originally published by Ohioans for Concealed Carry PAC and then by the Kentucky Concealed Carry Coalition. It has ceased to exist on those pages. …
Profiles in Courage: “He Was One Of Us”
Not sure if any of you caught this story last night on ABC News, but it was a good’un. It is stories like this that as a historian and veteran, I absolutely love to learn about, mostly because you won’t find it in any official history books. I did some digging and found this amazing…
Profiles in Courage: Man Stops Knife Wielding Maniac in Target Store and Get’s Sued For It
Just one more sad example that the Target Corporation is nothing but a bunch of assholes that are NOT interested in the SAFETY of your family or mine. First they open up their bathrooms so grown men can assault/rape little girls and boys and now they decide to SUE a brave good samaritan who stopped…
Profiles in Courage: Veteran Who Lost a Leg to an IED has Completed 26 Marathons to Date
Next time you get the urge to bitch and moan about your life being hard, unfair or difficult…Come back and Read this article. This Modern Spartan personifies and epitomizes the phrase “Never Give Up!”-SF Losing his leg to an IED hasn’t kept Freddie De Los Santos from finishing 26 competitive races. When the Twin Towers…
Profiles in Courage: “Apache Down”, The One Iraq War Story You Most Likely Never Heard About
When an AH-64 went down near the Iraqi city of Najaf, 12 Army paratroopers unleashed hell on an enormous enemy force. On Jan. 28, 2007, a 12-man Military Transition Team, or MiTT, composed of paratroopers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division was called upon to assist an Iraqi army unit that…
Another Reason To Be Armed (With a Cane): 70 Year Old Veteran Shuts Down Would-be Robber
When I first read about this story I was reminded of Colonel Rex Applegate. Him and William E. Fairbairn were responsible for training OSS operatives in the “Black Arts” during WW2. Later in life, the late Colonel Applegate had to use a cane to get around and developed a literal arsenal of techniques for the…
Profiles in Courage: Two Veterans Embark on Mission to be the First Amputees To Climb Mount Everest
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…
Profiles in Courage: True Heroism Summed Up in a Snapshot
On November 10, 1943, when Lt. Walter L. Chewning Jr., the catapult officer of the USS Enterprise, saw a 9,000-pound F6F Hellcat crash-land on the flight deck and erupt in a ball of flames as it barreled toward the gun gallery, he did not run away. Instead, Chewning deliberately ran toward the wreck, stepped on the burning external…
Profiles in Courage: USMC Wildcat Ace Downs 7 Japanese Bombers on his First Combat Patrol During WWII
During WWII, Marine 1st Lt. James E. Swett attacked 15 enemy bombers, destroying 7, on his first combat patrol. On April 7, 1943, Medal of Honor recipient and Marine fighter ace James E. Swett shot down 7 Japanese bombers, taking out four all on his own after he became separated from his wingmen. He was…