Wisdom from the Community: Top Five Pieces of Advice for New Paratroopers
Wisdom from the Community: Top Five Pieces of Advice for New Paratroopers Hear ye, hear ye! Young paratroopers, we believe...
U.S. Soldiers and Marines Conduct Jump Ops in the Caucasus
From August 21st until September 1st, 2023, troops from 21 allied and partner nations joined forces with the U.S. Armed...
VA Secretary Smacks Down Idea to Cut VA Disability Pay
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been under scrutiny in recent years for its budget and disability compensation system. Recently,...
Operation Market Garden: A Failure of Planning, Intel, and Coordination
Operation Market Garden was a World War II military operation that was conducted by the Allied forces in September 1944....
5 Reasons The 82nd Airborne Is Awesome
The 82nd Airborne Division is a highly trained and specialized division of the US Army that can be rapidly deployed...
The Army’s recruiting problem: Low Test Scores and A Childhood Obesity Crisis
Apparently fewer Americans want to become soldiers of the nation’s Army and for the first time in generations the U.S....
We are Fort Liberty: The renaming of Fort Bragg
It was unveiled on Tuesday 24th May 2022 how the name Fort Bragg and the North Carolina base’s memorial and...
Five Years Ago, we were “Lying to Ourselves.” Is the Army still doing it?
In February 2015, the Strategic Studies Institute and the U.S. Army War College Press published a report that sent shockwaves...
The Great GWOT Debate: Rip It vs. Wild Tiger
After 18 years of war, many in GWOT have grown accustomed to having as many cases of energy drinks as...
To the mothers who grieve while others are celebrating this Mother’s Day, know that when your sons and daughters made the ultimate sacrifice, we understand that you did too. They are not forgotten, and neither are you.
In late summer of 2012 when Charlie Company, 1-504th, came home from Muqor, Afghanistan, I met Christian Sannicolas’ mom, Deanna...
Civilians often obsess over why soldiers serve, but in combat, all the many reasons are meaningless. What matters is shooting, moving, and communicating, and that’s it.
In garrison, soldiers spend the majority of their time training for war. After one “mass-tactical” night jump onto Fort Bragg’s...
Soldiers who have tasted the brine of combat understand this, which is why they get so angry when someone disrespects the flag. This country is the value, what we value is the value, and often, that’s as specific as one can get.
On the eve of the seventh-year anniversary of the deaths of paratroopers PFC Michael Metcalf and 1LT Jonathan Walsh, whose...
When you are in line at manifest, no one cares what rank you are: You are a paratrooper.
General Matthew B. Ridgway on why he declined to talk to soldiers from stages or platforms: "I always disliked...
"We’re the 82nd Airborne and that’s the way we do it. We like it that way.”
“There’s a lot of things you’re going to see here that are a little messed up or a little...
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Wisdom from the Community: Top Five Pieces of Advice for New Paratroopers
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U.S. Soldiers and Marines Conduct Jump Ops in the Caucasus
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VA Secretary Smacks Down Idea to Cut VA Disability Pay
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Operation Market Garden: A Failure of Planning, Intel, and Coordination
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5 Reasons The 82nd Airborne Is Awesome
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The Army’s recruiting problem: Low Test Scores and A Childhood Obesity Crisis
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We are Fort Liberty: The renaming of Fort Bragg
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Five Years Ago, we were “Lying to Ourselves.” Is the Army still doing it?
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The Great GWOT Debate: Rip It vs. Wild Tiger
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To the mothers who grieve while others are celebrating this Mother’s Day, know that when your sons and daughters made the ultimate sacrifice, we understand that you did too. They are not forgotten, and neither are you.
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Civilians often obsess over why soldiers serve, but in combat, all the many reasons are meaningless. What matters is shooting, moving, and communicating, and that’s it.
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Soldiers who have tasted the brine of combat understand this, which is why they get so angry when someone disrespects the flag. This country is the value, what we value is the value, and often, that’s as specific as one can get.
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When you are in line at manifest, no one cares what rank you are: You are a paratrooper.
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"We’re the 82nd Airborne and that’s the way we do it. We like it that way.”
