by Jeanne McKinney | Jul 26, 2015 | All, Articles, Military, U.S. Army
“Success isn’t final, failure isn’t fatal; it’s courage that counts,” said five-time Olympic Gold medal swimmer Alicia Coutts. It was a different kind of courage that 1st Lt. Christopher Parks brandished when he powered himself through the water at the 2015 Army...
by Jeanne McKinney | Jul 4, 2015 | All, Articles, Military, U.S. Marine Corps
“Every military, whether it’s us or the terrorists, tries to be unpredictable,” said Maj. BJ Grass, a Marine Corps Intelligence officer, recently returned from the Anbar region in Iraq. As part of Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force — Crisis Response —...
by Jeanne McKinney | May 27, 2015 | All, Articles, Military, Veterans
The story of Chris and Taya Kyle is a testament to heroism on the battlefield and a tribute to love at its deepest level at home. Not that long ago in 2001, Taya and Navy SEAL Chris were making eyes at each other at Maloney’s in San Diego’s Gaslamp District. Chris...
by Jeanne McKinney | May 8, 2015 | All, Articles, Military, U.S. Marine Corps
In the spring of 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom was underway and 1st Marine Division troops were on the march. Keeping the enemy off-balance and retaining its tactical momentum, the division conducted an assault bridging operation on April 7 while under fire to cross...
by Jeanne McKinney | Apr 8, 2015 | All, Articles, Military, U.S. Army
Kajaki hydroelectric dam on the Helmand River. DoD photo by Musadeq Sadeq. (Public domain) via Wikimedia Commons In Kandahar City in 2010, insurgency was at increasingly high levels, and life-sustaining electrical power was in scarce supply. The U.S. Agency for...
by Jeanne McKinney | Mar 23, 2015 | All, Articles, Military, U.S. Navy
On Oct. 12, 2000, two suicide bombers navigated a small motorboat up alongside the USS Cole, which had stopped to refuel in Aden, Yemen, on its way to the Persian Gulf. The bombers exchanged greetings with sailors just before explosives in the motorboat detonated,...
