On the surface, the Battle of Hastings might appear to be just another conflict of many in the history of England to decide who would rule England. In a sense this is true. However, the final result was that, under William, more than under any...
The saga began when an American businessman lost his way one foggy London night in 1910. William D. Boyce, a 51 year-old Chicago newspaperman and magazine publisher, was alone and confused. The next moment of his life would change the face of...
The Chief Enlisted Soldier in the Army is the primer enlisted position and with comes the awesome responsibility of caring, mentoring and enhancing the quality of life for all of the Army's enlisted soldiers, a task not be taken lightly. When you...
This summary report on the British Home Guard concludes that the force was just as vital and an important arm of the total defense of any country as any of the other forces, such as the Army and Navy and the Civil Defence Forces. The Home Guard was...
My military personal experience started on 9 November 1982, that’s when I swore in again at the Richmond Virginia, Military Entrance Processing Station. Over the next few years, I will experience being a Private and finally a Senior...
For most of my brothers in arms, we will forever remember the events, which took place
in the afternoon of June 19, 1977. I still remember my teacher asking me if I had heard the news that 15 of our soldiers lost their lives during an ambush along...
On 13 October 2004 18 Soldiers from the 343rd Quartermaster Company, broke a sacred responsibility to the duty they swore an oath to and disobeyed a direct order to transport supplies from Tallil air base near Nasiriyah to Taji north of Baghdad,...
American service members are held to a higher standard than their civilian counterparts. Whether it is new recruits having to abruptly give up smoking in basic training, or a married couple not having the freedom to engage in non-conventional...
This is the story of a Special Forces Operations Sergeant that spent most of his adult life training and preparing for war, but the war in a sense never came. What came was a mission that at first sight was very unusual on its face value. After...
FM 90-26, Airborne Operations, states, "The strategic mobility of airborne forces permits rapid employment to meet contingencies across the operational continuum anywhere in the world." Arguably, the strategic mobility of the United States Army...
"Ask a doughboy or an officer about 'over there' these days, and nine times out of ten his answer will be, 'Oh, what's the use of talking about it? Folks are tired of hearing about the war."
This is the story of a Master Sergeant who went to Iraq as a member of Iraq Humanitarian Support Unit and spent 7months there. He had a lot of time to think about himself, his future, Iraqi people, the future of Iraq and Japanese NCO’s mission...
Born out of a necessity to accomplish my unit’s mission and living by the words “Lead by Example”, I experienced the fight against terrorism from both a First Sergeant and Door-gunners view. For a year I bounced between First Sergeant duties...
This is the story of a Sergeant Major who has gone through combat situations, from peace keeping to peace enforcement while dealing with armed elements. I realized that sometimes it can be more about a realistic battle condition than a mere...
The United States of America has a Democratic Republic form of government. Communism is failing around the world because that form of government robs the incentive from its people to be "all they can be". Dictatorships are not successful because...
The complex ethical pressures upon the military professional are the rules, goals, and
Situations that provide criteria for determining what is right and wrong, good and bad. The moment of decision-making or action taking for the military...