To go up on that rooftop is to die. Right? That was a reality. As I was looking around in the middle of this firefight, it looked like a Star Wars movie. There were so many tracers going around the rooftops of these villages from Taliban fire that it...
I was absolutely terrified. I’m not kidding you, and it’s not something I take a lot of pride in saying as a career Green Beret but, four years ago, just down this river here when I retired at MacDill Air Force Base after almost 23 years in the Army, the...
This article originally appeared on Viewers to Volunteers U.S. Army Special Operations combat veteran Sua Tuimaleliifano was severely injured during a firefight in southern Afghanistan in 2007. He kept fighting in the war, unaware of a broken neck and...
Here’s a piece I wrote up for the Tampa Tribune about Afghanistan: It is unclear where things are heading in Afghanistan. Recently, hopes soared as Afghanistan and the United States reached an agreement on the language of the Bi-Lateral Security Agreement, and...
