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My Battle Within by John Glenn 25 May 2013 | 06:03 am
I’ve been out of the Airborne for a month and a half now, I’m not sure which has been the greater struggle, going downrange with my brothers or addiction and suicide afterwards. I could always count o...
The Longest Night by Robert Robeson 22 Jan 2013 | 08:04 am
More than 29 years had elapsed since my 1969-1970 Viet-Nam combat tour of duty when I received a letter from Charles Harris. He was one of my former flight medics who had won two Silver Stars—America’...
Each Other is All You Have by Joshua Martin 30 Dec 2012 | 09:06 am
I was at FOB Delta Iraq in 2008-2009. It was my first deployment. I was sitting in my friends CHU (combat housing unit). I was playing my guitar and he brought over his electric drum set. We started g...
Dreamers Who Do by Robert Robeson 5 Oct 2012 | 06:00 am
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”—Sarah Ban Breathnack[i] Rev. Don Coleman knows what it was like to be black and raised in a predo...
IT AIN’T EASY TO LOVE YOUR ENEMY by Robert B. Robeson 24 Sep 2012 | 05:19 am
One of the first things I learned during my tour of duty with the 236th Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance) in Da Nang, South Viet-Nam, from 10 July 1969-10 July 1970, was that many days and mis...
Honoring America’s Fallen Warriors on Memorial Day by Robert Robeson 29 Jun 2012 | 09:14 am
War is a dirty, smelly, fearful and mean-spirited business. It’s a grotesque funeral that often lasts for years. All combat soldiers have walked into this dark night of terror and dared death to have ...
What Lies Ahead by CPL Smokey 5 Apr 2012 | 04:36 pm
Our squad had just been tasked to set up security for a new Forward Operating Base (FOB). The reason for building a new FOB was because there was a remote roadway between the two largest FOBs in the A...
Cherry by Mike McElmeel MSG (R) 31 Mar 2012 | 05:39 am
In the Winter of 1983 I was a “five jump chump”, having recently graduated from Airborne School at Ft. Benning, Ga. After a two week leave back home, I checked into the 82nd Replacement Detachment, th...
The Beard Eater by John Patton 9 Mar 2012 | 03:53 pm
The human body is not a very effective air pump. I was consuming as much air as I was physically capable of moving. Using every single muscle in my torso straining to move air in and out of my lungs...
War Dogs by Mike McElmeel MSG (R) 22 Feb 2012 | 06:39 pm
Dogs are man’s best friend so the saying goes. Here in ‘Merica dogs are for a lot of folks part of the family. I have three dogs myself and consider myself a dog person. I am not the only one that fee...
