Top 2019 Soldiers’ stories range from saving lives to spotlighting fitness By Devon L. Suits, Army News Service This year three Soldiers were recognized with the Medal of Honor for their acts of heroism in Iraq and Afghanistan. A handful of Soldiers revealed their fitness potential, either by maxing the Army Combat Fitness Test or …
By Susan Katz Keating From the July 2015 Issue of SOF “Watson. Wake up. Woods. Everyone. Wake the hell up.” Hours earlier, the nine-man squad had been kicking back with Pepsi, listening to music and swapping stories under a full moon atop Outpost Nevada, some 12,000 feet above the Ganjigal Valley in Afghanistan’s deadly Kunar …
Travis Haley by Travis HaleyFrom the July 2014 issue of SOF I was back in Iraq, in-country with Blackwater, less than six months after my deployment there with 2nd Force Recon. I had been specifically recruited for the Paul Bremer detail, which was the most high threat principle in PSD history. My day-to-day was with …