William Guarnere (“Wild Bill”) was a paratrooper of the storied Easy Company, 506th PIR – and a huge influence on one of our writers.
William Guarnere: Wild Bill Goes To Join His Brothers
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- Sailors as Infantry: the Naval Landing Party
- Indigenous Combat Infantry Badges
- Digging in at Khost
- Airfield seizure photo essay
- Yesterday vs Today’s Paratroopers
- Troops in Contact 1970
- Even God Hates Us
- SF vs MARSOC, Who Wins?
- Medal of Honor Recipient on Video
- Dangers of Confoy Diarrhea
- WTF is Up With Cheap Gear in the PX?
- Dropping a Deuce in the Field
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Sailors as Infantry: the Naval Landing Party
Most people associate the Marines with fighting on the beaches, but landing party sailors fought as naval infantry for many years.
Grunt Life – the Infantry at War
The infantry has been described as the “poor bloody infantry.” Ernie Pyle called them the “mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys.” These are some stories from the grunt life.
Indigenous CIBs | Red2Alpha73
Local-made Combat Infantry Badge patches. Like every Joe, Mike Durand wanted his. So they bought local and sewed ’em on by hand.
The Day They All Should Have Died | The Apache Blues
If you’re interested in the Vietnam War, you may have seen this footage. The images of this platoon in combat are what we picture when we think of Vietnam: a bare-armed M60 gunner on his knees spraying suppressive fire, a lieutenant calmly calling for support over the...
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Legends of the Old Corps: Gustav Hasford and the “Snuffies”
The Short Timers, a novel by Gustav Hasford, was the foundation for Stanley Kubrick’s war film “Full Metal Jacket”, but it was a close-knit group of Marines called “The Snuffies” that inspired all the characters.
6 Ways to Revolutionize the Infantry | #1 is a Top Gun for Grunts
The Close Combat Lethality Task Force is the mechanism by which the Warrior Monk SECDEF Mattis and Advisory Board Chairman Gen. Scales want to revolutionize the infantry, increasing lethality and survivability. Breach-Bang-Clear Time for Better Tech, Better...
The Great Scarecrow of War: Thoughts From Joseph Plumb Martin
Any number of OIF/OEF war bloggers and memoir writers have written about the misery and tedium of their service, the desolate mind-numbing hours of boredom, fatigue, and discomfort punctuated by short bursts of adrenaline, fear, and often exhilaration (or sometimes...
Grunts Digging in at Khost: the 9th Company
Russian grunts digging in at Khost: this scene will be familiar to many of you. It’s from a Russian movie called The 9th Company.
Airfield Seizure Exercise: A Photo Essay
Merrill, Hernandez, and Reeder had a meeting a couple days ago, discussing what sort of stories we wanted to do in the future, how best to open up the site to new contributors from our readership, etc. Everything was going great until time came to figure out who was...
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