Stories

When I came back from Vietnam, I was the only living passenger on a C-130 cargo plane. I sat there, seat-belted in the back, with rows and rows of cof...

I was serving in the Middle East— as the commanding officer— and picked a bad place to conduct refueling ops. I didn’t recognize it as a bad location ...

It was a snow day in Alabama— the kind where they cancel school (and most jobs), the kind where people flood the grocery stores and buy all the milk &...

I was responsible for issuing the orders to “neutralize” a target (read: kill a person) while I was deployed in Afghanistan. It always bothered me tha...

One night a bunch of us— ten or so— went out drinking. I was in the Air Force. It was about 5 guys and about 5 of us gals.

We made our way back to a ...

I was a pilot in Vietnam, tasked to fly children out of South Vietnam. 

About ten minutes after takeoff, we heard an explosion as the rear fuselage o...

I was with a special ops team when the U.S. government betrayed us.

We were tasked with training the soldiers of a foreign government. As a result, t...

We were on base one night. I had just been promoted, so I was there celebrating with my Marines. We stayed up that night until about 2am and then went...

Looking back, I was a harsh leader. I should have carried myself differently and treated the people under my command with more dignity.

I had a woman...

I served in Vietnam. I was in interrogator.

The Geneva Convention outlines certain rules about what you can do and not do to prisoners of war, but it...

I was a drone pilot while serving in the Air Force. I was the only female in a small group of males.

We used to go into a dark room each day, sit in ...

I was a deputy working for the county— under the Sheriff.

We used to arrest guys, take them to the local jail, and then turn in all the correct paper...