Scud missiles riveted the attention of cable news outlets during Operation Desert Storm in early 1991 when Iraq launched 88 of these notoriously inaccurate and unstable weapons at Saudi Arabia and Israel. At 8:30pm on February 25, a Scud struck a United States Army barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 members of the
Written by John H Davis Writer, veteran, and "the most tattooed person with a Harvard degree," John H. Davis, stumbled upon the Veterans Breakfast Club and sent us this endorsement of our storytelling mission. John was an infantry squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division and has multiple combat tours behind him. He's author
U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, loaded with 78,000 pounds of infant formula bound for Indianapolis, May 22, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Emma Quirk) You may have heard the US Air Force flew special baby formula (hypoallergenic Nestlé’s Alfamino Infant and Alfamino Junior
Written by Galen Peterson Galen Peterson in Iraq, 2008 Galen Peterson is a foremost expert on modern tank combat, having learned the subject first-hand as a tank platoon leader and company commander in Iraq. Galen is author of the memoir Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy and has lectured
by Kim Mitchell James and Kim Mitchell. Photo courtesy of author. No one who joined our VBC Happy Hour with Kim Mitchell and Bao Tran in 2020 will ever forget their gripping story of how a South Vietnamese Marine rescued an orphaned baby from streets of Quang Tri City
Researchers reviewed records of more than 2.5 million post-9/11 veterans and found almost 4,000 more of them had died than researchers expected. Many deaths were due to accidents and homicide, but rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and suicide are also higher among 18-44 year-old veterans than among comparable groups. Traumatic Brain Injury worsens the odds of
