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Erik Kristensen led his Navy SEALs last time on a fateful rescue attempt
Erik Kristensen was a Navy SEAL commander who was killed in action (KIA) in the Extortion 17 incident.…
Lt. Col. Mark Foggy Phillips: The story of legendary SBS operator
Lt. Col. Mark Foggy Phillips was a Special Boat Service (SBS) operator who took part in hundreds of…
James N. Rowe: Green Beret survived 5 years as POW and escaped thanks to his beard
James N. Rowe was an U.S. Army Special Forces soldier and was one of the first prisoner of…
Charles Mawhinney killed 16 Viet Cong soldiers in 30 seconds … at night
The Vietnam war era and the special forces of that time have raised many heroes. One of them…
How did Larry Thorne (Lauri Törni) became a Special Forces legend?
Larry Thorne or Lauri Törni, was a war hero who fought under three different flags. Starting in his…
The story of Glen Doherty, a Navy SEAL killed in Benghazi
On September 11, 2012, the diplomatic mission in Benghazi come under attack, US Ambassador to Lybia John Christopher…
Clifford Wooldridge: Marine killed enemy combatant in hand-to-hand combat
In the world of Marines, the name of Clifford Wooldridge refers to the story and extraordinary things that…
The life and death of Erin Doyle
“He died pulling the trigger. He died screaming into the face of the enemy.” The Canadian army has a…