I have the utmost respect for Navy Corpsman..they are tough as nails and save Marines Lives everyday on the battlefield. Not sure if any of you guys noticed, but this guy is wearing a pair of GOLD Jump wings, which means he has done at least 5 Jumps, which most likely means he deploys and…
Category: Profiles in Courage
The Bad Ass Files: Russian Soldier Jacob Pavlov
“Pavlov’s small group of men, defending one house, killed more enemy soldiers than the Germans lost in taking Paris.” – Lt. Gen. Vasily Chuikov The Battle of Stalingrad is the single bloodiest battle in human history. Over the course of sixth months of non-stop, ultra over-the-top-in-a-bad-way combat, this unfathomably-violent blood fiesta ended the lives of…
Inspirational: Father Honors Son’s Sacrifice Through Military Service
“We use words like honor, code, loyalty…we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something.” –Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, USMC (Jack Nicholson’s character in the movie a Few Good Men) Cmdr. Bill Krissoff joined the Navy Medical Corps to honor his fallen son. First Lt. Nate Krissoff decided that he wanted…
Profiles in Courage: Military Veteran Disarms Armed Robber
Guys like this make me Proud to be A Veteran. He exemplifies the “Combative Mentality” you have to have in today’s world if you expect to survive. Sheep, Wolves and Sheep Dogs folks…which one are you? In the mords of Chris Kyle’s Dad in American Sniper: “We did not raise any Sheep’s in this family…
CCW Holder with Epic “Stache” Saves Texas Deputy
Scott Perkins responded as I hope all of us would when he saw a deputy down and fighting for his life. Not thinking about his own life, a local Marine veteran jumped into action and stopped a man from reaching a Bastrop deputy’s gun as the suspect pummeled the officer during a struggle earlier this month….
Crusader Corner: The Western Volunteers Fighting ISIS
“A lot of people come over here thinking they’re going to be Rambo. It’s not like that.” The village had no name. Everyone who had known the name of the village was now dead or had fled. When the Kurdish peshmerga fighters had recaptured the settlement from ISIS that spring, it was so full of…
Profiles in Courage: Brave Mom Fights Off Two POS Carjackers
I have serious respect for this brave mother…I really like how she tears off the mask so the CCTV camera gets a nice shot of his ugly mug. I would really like to know if either of these felons were illegals being this was Florida?? I would bet YES. Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay…
Military History: Women Pilots who Flew During WW2 DENIED Rest at Arlington Cemetery
This is a damn outrage. Somebody needs to have their ass kicked for this and get it Corrected ASAP! -SF First Lt. Elaine Danforth Harmon, a Women’s Airforce Service Pilot, or WASP, was one of many women who served their country when it needed them the most. More than 70 years after Harmon flew military aircraft,…
Profiles in Courage: U.S. Born Soldier Says he’s Forgive Palestinian Who Stabbed Him
‘I’d only had one lesson in Krav Maga. All I had in my mind were, like, things from movies’ Seth, from Utah, was lightly wounded in an attack last month in Jerusalem after fighting off his attacker — who, he says, should ‘get his life together’ Seth wanted to be a good soldier, so while…
Profiles in Courage: Ssgt. Jared Monti, United States Army
Staff Sgt. Jared Monti died to save a teammate in the middle of a firefight. On June 18, 2006 Army Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti led 16 fellow soldiers on a mission up a mountainside into enemy territory near Gowardesh in northeastern Afghanistan. The soldiers, all forward observers, were on assignment as part of the…