These American heroes have been hit, traumatized, and seen and experienced all of the worst that war has to offer, but now they tell their stories in a way very few people ever get to see or hear. They address the most difficult and absurd situations with a sense of irreverence and humor you can probably only get out of combat veterans.
Corporal (Ret.) Paul Gardner, USMC was left paralyzed from the waist down after a bullet severed his spinal cord during a firefight in Iraq. Gardner was wounded during the initial 2003 invasion of Iraq when his platoon was engaged in a firefight with more than 100 Fedayeen Fighters in the Baghdad...
Sergeant First Class Joseph James, Army, endured four combat pumps, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom once and Operation Iraqi Freedom three times. On April 8, 2008, SFC James was the gunner on a Humvee that was hit simultaneously by two IEDs: the first explosion hit the engine block and d...
W-2 Army Special Forces Operator Nathan Smith joined after 9/11 to kill some bad guys like the amazing patriot he is. In July 2018, during a mission to take the capital of ISIS in Afghanistan, Smith got into a grenade fight with the enemy trying to overrun his unit, and suffered a traumatic brain...
Navy HN Shane Edmaiston became a corpsman to avoid combat, but still got the best of it when he was blown up by an old Russian grenade thrown at his patrol by an Iraqi teenager. While on a foot patrol with 2nd Battalion 7th Marines to move vehicles away from voting sites for an election taking pl...
Army Staff Sergeant Vanessa Brown did two deployments, one to Iraq and one to Afghanistan. During her deployment in Afghanistan, Brown’s convoy hit an IED that flipped their vehicle. The driver fell on top of her and Brown suffered six broken vertebrae. She was flown to Landstuhl, Germany and her...
Staff Sergeant Robert Waples joined the Army in 1994 right out of high school as a stepping stone to becoming a police officer. In 1998 he transitioned to the National Guard and shortly before 9/11, SSG Waples applied for special forces duty, and his unit was activated after the towers fell. The ...
Marine Corps Lance Corporal Anson “NubGunner" Roberts was stationed in Iraq in 2007 on an EOD Security Team when they ran into a complex ambush. While his cohorts dismounted and cleared a house they were taking fire from, Nubgunner tried to maneuver his HMMWV for support when he struck a massive ...
Marine Corps Private First-Class Sean Dillion: A Marine Corps veteran from the Vietnam War, Dillion was wounded while walking point for the 2nd Platoon, India 3/5 when he came upon a Marine’s flak and camo utility blouse. He’d noticed a lot of 782 gear lying around, nothing special, but he suspec...
Donny O'Malley tells more about the incredible people and stories in Veterans Laughing Together.
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Reach out and text someone you served with, social connection saves lives.
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Donny O'Malley tells more about the incredible people and stories in Veterans Laughing Together.
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Reach out and text someone you served with, social connection saves lives.
VET Tv gear
https://shop.veterantv.com/
Donny O'Malley tells more about the incredible people and stories in Veterans Laughing Together.
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Reach out and text someone you served with, social connection saves lives.
VET Tv gear
https://shop.veterantv.com/
Donny O'Malley tells more about the incredible people and stories in Veterans Laughing Together.
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Reach out and text someone you served with, social connection saves lives.
VET Tv gear
https://shop.veterantv.com/
Donny O'Malley tells more about the incredible people and stories in Veterans Laughing Together.
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Reach out and text someone you served with, social connection saves lives.
VET Tv gear
https://shop.veterantv.com/
