By Todd DePastino Do you know this Marine? We think he's Richard L. henry, Jr., who served in the USMC Combined Action Program CAP 3-3-6. John Suzadail wants to thank him for saving his life in 1970. Seventy-three-year-old Vietnam War veteran John Suzadail is on a quest to find his long-lost comrade,
By Todd DePastino The story about the accidental Tootsie Roll airdrop at the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir ranks among the greatest in American military lore. But it probably isn’t true. Legend has it that during the desperate fight at Chosin, Marines ran out of 60-millimeter mortars, useful for delivering high, arcing fire over
By Bob Harbula Ninety-two-year-old Bob Harbula has shared his story at several Veterans Breakfast Club events and in our podcasts over the years. Historian Patrick K. O’Donnell used Bob’s combat narrative in his excellent book, Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story —The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company (Da Capo
Iwo Jima Landing in Color.mov from TanSideOut on Vimeo. Join author Steven McCloud for a ground-breaking look at the color film footage of the landings at Iwo Jima, 19 February 1945. McCloud is the author of BLACK DRAGON: The Experience of a Marine Rifle Company, published by Texas A&M University, and is the CEO
Written by Shaun HallBetween Enlisted and regular Officers sits a strange thing called a "Warrant Officer." Warrant Officers get saluted and are called "sir," but they have their own pay grades and do not receive their rank by commission . . . unless they're "Commissioned Warrant Officers." Shaun Hall breaks it all down below.What Military
