March 1934. The Krook Gustal for Brick, Essen, Germany. A truck rolls out of the factory on six wheels. It is not large. It is not heavy. It carries no...
2004. The Patria vehicles factory, Hemliner, central Finland, 90 km north of Helsinki. Deep inside a country most people associate with sauners, forests, and silence. Not armored warfare. A vehicle...
June 28th, 2004. Basra, Southern Iraq. A British Army Land Rover turned off a dusty road at the end of a routine patrol. Inside sat Fusilier Gordon Gentle, 19 years...
Joan Bayz wrote about it in her memoir. The book was published in 1989, 20 years after Woodstock. She called it and A Voice to sing with. In the Woodstock...
This story has been told in many forms by many people across many years. It does not have one definitive version. The names change, the street changes, the year is...
Almost nobody talks about this night. April 7th, 1968, the Anderson Theater, New York City, 3 days after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot on the balcony of the Lraine...
Kris Kristofferson wrote Me and Bobby McGee while working as a janitor. He had been a Rhodes Scholar. He had flown helicopters for the Army. He had a literature degree...
Seven operators walked into a kill zone designed for 40. 18 seconds later, the ambush team was gone. Not retreating, not regrouping, but eliminated. Staff Sergeant Hullbrook had spent 11...
Four operators with equipment worth $16,000 Australian dollars executed a compound clearance that a 16-man Delta element with $3 million in support assets had failed to complete 72 hours earlier....
Seven operators moved through absolute darkness at a pace that should have been impossible. No moon, no night vision devices, no infrared markers, just human eyes adjusted to starlight and...