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Walter Walsh: The Alpha Gunman

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The common denominator for the vast majority of us is that it is essentially make-believe. We practice in the sincere hope that we may someday expire of old age, never having had to unlimber a firearm for real. And then there was FBI Special Agent Walter Walsh.

Jason Everman: Warrior Poet

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Jason Everman is the archetypal Renaissance Man. Dissatisfied with the ordinary and mundane, he has tasted fame, enjoyed the fellowship of warriors, dispensed death, and ardently studied life. Along the way, he has discovered what it means truly to live.

The Gory Demise of the Ruggles Brothers: The Inimitable Power of Genetics

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Sydney Sweeney has good genes. Those five words have recently touched off a hurricane of controversy amidst the cerulean-haired gender fluids who stand ever ready to be cataclysmically offended by pretty much anything. Full disclosure

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Arthur Jackson: The Conflicted Hero

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In Arthur Jackson, we find an interesting dichotomy. An accomplished warrior rightfully venerated for exhibiting a level of personal valor unimaginable to most of us normal folk, he later found himself in an unexpected dark place.

SSG David Bellavia: It’s All Fun and Games Until Some Unwashed Lunatic Bites You in the Balls

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When things went a little nuts one November day back in 2004 in Fallujah, SSG David Bellavia briefly unlimbered his inner monster.

Joseph Drexel Biddle: Father of Marine Corps Close Quarters Combat

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Some people seam more inclined to scrap than others. One of those curious men who seemed born to fight was Joseph Drexel Biddle.

Benjamin Solomon: Rambo Dentist

Benjamin Salomon: Rambo Dentist

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While CPT Salomon was working to stabilize a patient, he looked up and saw a Japanese soldier slip into his tent and bayonet a wounded American.

D-Day & Joseph “Jumpin’ Joe” Beyrle: The American Paratrooper who Killed Germans for the Russians

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When “Jumpin’ Joe” Beyrle first walked into that Army recruiting office and volunteered there is no way he could have imagined the places that decision might take him.

Alejo Garza Tamez: Always Respect an Old Man with a Gun

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Alejo Garza Tamez’s last stand has been described in the Mexican media as having been fought with “dignity, honour, and courage.” Don Alejo showed the world that one determined man with a gun still can make a difference.

Lieutenant John Reginald Gorman: The British Tiger-Killing Kamikaze Spy

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On 18 July 1944, an officer in the Irish Guards named LT John Gorman commanded a section of three M4 Shermans out looking for trouble as part of Operation Goodwood.