War Stories

Mortar Horse: The Year in Baqubah Nobody Talked About
Mortar Horse: The Year in Baqubah Nobody Talked About
While the news was reporting the war was over, the 978th MP Company — the Punishers — were taking incoming every single day at FOB Warhorse. This is what that... Read more...
Howard's Hill: 18 Marines, One Night, and the Laugh That Broke a Battalion
Howard's Hill: 18 Marines, One Night, and the Laugh That Broke a Battalion
They were 18 men on a barren hilltop surrounded by hundreds. Out of grenades they threw rocks. Out of answers they laughed. And they held the hill until sunrise. Read more...
The Last Man on Hill 931: Herbert Pililaau and the Real Heartbreak Ridge
The Last Man on Hill 931: Herbert Pililaau and the Real Heartbreak Ridge
Most people know Heartbreak Ridge from a Clint Eastwood movie about Grenada. Almost nobody knows what actually happened there — or the Hawaiian kid who held the line alone so... Read more...