On August 16, 2013, Capt. Brandon Thomas was a troop commander deployed to Kandahar province, Afghanistan. That day, during an unplanned halt on a mission, Capt. Thomas and his soldiers were hit by a suicide bomber. In this powerful episode, he talks about that day, the wounds he suffered, and his recovery.
In August 2007, a US Army Special Forces team came under fire while passing through a valley in Afghanistan. The call for support went...
This episode of The Spear is the first in a two-part series featuring three guests who took part in the Battle of Mogadishu, made...
In this episode Maj. John A. Meyer shares a story from his first deployment, in 2007, to Afghanistan. On July 27, his platoon and...