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If you haven’t joined our Wednesday morning coffee hour in a while, you’ve missed a rapid-fire on-going conversation about war movies. We’ve been focusing especially...
by Brian Thompson, The War Horse January 12, 2022 Brian Thompson laughs near local children while on patrol in Afghanistan in 2007. Photo courtesy of...
If Admiral Chester Nimitz hadn’t spotted it on a map, Ulithi might have gone completely unnoticed by US forces as it island-hopped across the Pacific....
By Todd DePastino In 1966, as war raged in Vietnam, Quaker Oats began putting little plastic Bo’sun’s Pipes inside boxes of Cap’n Crunch cereal. They...
← BACK TO VBC BLOGThat’s a wrap on Season 1 of the Scuttlebutt! When we started The Scuttlebutt, I was both excited by the possibilities...
You’ve heard of Japanese Kamikazes in World War II, but probably not Kaiten, the underseas version of the famous suicide attacks on Navy warships in...
The slouch hat with the brim pinned on the side is an icon of the Australian military, and it used to be common in service...
In the early days of the Iraq War—before “google” became a verb and Facebook even existed—the World Wide Web (as we called it then) delivered...
By Genevieve Norwood, Army nurse This story comes to us from Rich Norwood (USAF, ret), whose aunts Genevieve and (right) and Katherine Norwood (left) were...
PT Boat 109 commanded by LT John F. Kennedy The Navy, more than any branch, harbors mysteries. How long is a fathom? What is “gedunk”?...
The monument at the starting point of the Alaska Highway Ten years ago, WWII veteran Henry Geyer came to the Veterans Breakfast Club and told...
Last week on the Scuttlebutt, Marine Corps vet James Martin told a hilarious story about when the first guy in his squad was finally able to...
