Podcast: The Spear – A Black Hawk in a Firefight
In this episode of The Spear, Joe Roland joins to share a story from 2004. A decorated helicopter...
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In this episode of The Spear, Joe Roland joins to share a story from 2004. A decorated helicopter...
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Many people look at a map of the Indo-Pacific region and assume that—characterized as it is by...
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Coming out of flight school as a lieutenant, Maj. Jordan Terry was assigned to a unit that was...
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When Iran launched more than a hundred ballistic missiles, dozens of cruise missiles, and at least...
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In August 2007, a US Army Special Forces team came under fire while passing through a valley in...
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