Christine Durkin wrote that in order to prevent the horrible violence of school shootings, school faculty should be trained, certified, and armed with tasers. While tasers are used as self-defense weapons in some states and commonly carried by law enforcement, even school assigned police officers are not generally allowed to carry tasers.
While the sentiment was amusing, it is a very sobering truth that bomb technicians risk their lives every day to keep others safe. At the Hazardous Devices School in Alabama, US Army Master Sergeant Paul Carter explains, “We take safety seriously. Everything was learned the hard way. Meaning someone was hurt or killed.” Not many other jobs in the world have as high a mortality rate or element of danger inherent to the profession.
Born: August 13, 1958 Lincoln, Nebraska War: Somalia Rank: Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army (Sniper Team Member) Location of action: Mogadishu, Somalia Date of action: October 3, 1993 Medal received from: President Bill Clinton, May 1994 (posthumously)
Time Magazine reports on the Afghan shepherd that rescued the lone surviving US Navy SEAL from Operation Redwing: A crackle in the brush. That’s the sound the Afghan herder recalls hearing as he walked alone through a pine forest last month. When he looked up, he saw an American commando, his legs and shoulder bloodied. [...]
On October 29, 1963, Capt. “Rocky” Versace, 1Lt. “Nick” Rowe, and Sgt. Daniel Pitzer were accompanying a Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) company on an operation along a canal. The team left the camp at Tan Phu for the village of Le Coeur to roust a small enemy unit that was establishing a command post [...]
Medal of Honor Winner: Corporal Tibor “Ted” Rubin Meet Tibor “Ted” Rubin, survivor of the Nazi death camps, and an American hero: Nazi guards made sure Rubin understood despair at the age of 13. A Hungarian Jew, he was forced into the Mauthausen Concentration Camp toward the end of World War II. But Rubin defied [...]
America’s First Sea, Air, Land Commando- Lieutenant Jack Taylor, USNR Citation for the Navy Cross: “For extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United States; as chief of the Maritime Unit, Office of Strategic Services Detachment, United States Armed Forces, in the Middle East, from September 1943 to March [...]
http://www.armytimes.com/ Medal of Honor winner struggles for medical benefits By Nicholas K. Geranios Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — Vernon Baker had to wait more than 50 years to receive his Medal of Honor because of racism. Now the World War II veteran is battling the U.S. government for medical care for a brain tumor. With [...]
In My Own Words Sgt. James E. Wright, Green Belt Instructor, Marine Martial Arts Center of Excellence http://www.navyleague.org/ I was an assistant team leader with Team 1, 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion. It was April 7, 2004, and we were on a movement in Al Anbar province, going through a neighborhood that we [...]
Sometimes NS comes in the form of an Adventurer’s spirit — a spirit nonetheless of a character that is all American even though its course of action follows a “special course of “Force.” Marines have always considered themselves elite and a special force. During World War II that no-surrender character was embodied well in a [...]