Military Shout-Out Blog

Fort San Pedro or in Spanish, Fuerza de San Pedro offers you 455 year of history to explore as it’s the oldest triangular shaped fort in the Philippines. If ...

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 More Military Stories: Nancy Pelosi and Her Democratic Allies Seek...

No one is more professional than I. I am a noncommissioned officer, a leader of Soldiers. As a noncommissioned officer, I realize that I am a member of a tim...

When we stand, we are standing for the men and women, in and out of uniform that have gave us so much to us, all of us, even that clown Kaepernick. Every gen...

More United Kingdom Stories: A Time for Heroes: The Battle of Rorke's Drift 1879 Bridge Over the River Kwai. A Sombering Adventure into the Heart of Thailand...

“Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces o...

Thirty-one words that helps all Americans everywhere to know that they are one people. Thirty-one words that that cements who Americans really are. No one or...

Veterans Day each November 11th is our nations way of celebrating and thanking those few among us who stand and have stood at the gates, even sometimes at th...

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato Here are 10 war quotes, some new and no so new that have stuck with me over the years. I hope you find them ...

Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. Starting about...

The Lord was proud and He said," You are no longer Infantry. You shall bear the name of the Cavalry's Scouts. Go forth now and battle the darkness. The very ...

Everyone has heard of Chivalry, but do you know where it came from? The origins of The Imperial Constantinian Military Order of Saint George. “By tradition, ...

While the Battle of Gonzales may not conjure up images of thousands of men standing toe-toe in a pitched battle, but with the “COME AND TAKE IT” flag, it has...

The rondeau poem “Flanders Fields” is still today a powerful poem when quoted or read aloud at any war memorial, ceremony or remembrance-day celebration toda...

The "Garryowen" this is the set of special lyrics that was written for the US 7th Cavalry Regiment. Garryowen [Verse 1] We are the pride of the Army and a re...

WWI Second Battle of the Marne July 14 – 15, 1918 Marne River, France. When flanking French units retreated, the then 3rd Division Commander, Major General J...

Following the Battle of Rorke’s Drift, the British awarded 11 Victoria Crosses (VC’s) to the defenders of Rorke’s Drift. 11 Victoria Crosses is still to this...

Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death. Rode the six hundred. I remember many a trying time a...

845 Australian POWs and over 200 civilian internees left Rabaul New Britain on 22 June 1942 on the “Montevideo Maru”. The"Montevideo Maru” was not marked as ...

First Battle of Manassas was the largest and bloodiest battle in United States history up to that point. Yankee casualties were 460 killed, 1,124 wounded, an...

1,000,000 casualties, and over 300,000 men were killed or declared missing. 103 years have passed since the battle of the Somme in France during the first wo...