CAUTION: Watching these stories may cause feelings of intense admiration, sense of duty and a compulsion to be part of something bigger than yourself.
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Born into the Great Depression, Donald Van Cleve spent his childhood dodging poverty and delivering newspapers when Pearl Harbor was attacked. When the Korean War broke out he joined the United States Marine Corps and trained in a squad managing heavy automatic weapons. He landed in Korea in May of […]
He was only 18 years old when Earl Schroeder found a sense of place within the United States Air Force. Trained as a radar technician he was stationed around the States at various radar installations as part of the Air Defense Command – a security bubble providing early warning of […]
He opened a newspaper and saw a photo of an A-1 Skyraider and said, “I want to fly that.” Little did he know the legendary future that awaited him at the controls of that airplane. Jim Beggerly served 21 years in the US Air Force and was awarded 2 Silver […]
Following his fathers footsteps, Jason Galusha joined the Army as an MP in 1997. On the morning of Tuesday, sept 11, 2001, while he was training with his SWAT team, they heard the news and immediately received orders to secure the Pentagon. In his words, “We knew nothing would ever […]
Born on the “wrong side of the tracks”, Jerry Kaping was the youngest of 5 with a single mother. At age 16, a youth pastor fostered him into a relationship with Christ. That relationship helped carry him through his time in the United States Coast Guard where he endured harrowing […]
Dane Prevatt grew up in the small town of Grants Pass, Oregon but he found his place within the United States Marine Corps. At 18 years old he completed boot camp and in 1991 found himself on the shores of Kuwait wondering what would come next. He spent a couple […]
