Wartime Stories

Camp Horno is a familiar training ground for many West Coast Marines — a place defined by steep terrain, coastal fog, and long nights in the field. But for some who’ve trained there, the experience le...

10 Apr 37min

Guam is often seen as a tropical paradise — a strategic stronghold in the Pacific with a long and violent history beneath its surface. But for those who have lived and served there, the island has a r...

3 Apr 47min

In remote training areas, far from anything resembling civilization, service members occasionally report encounters they struggle to explain. Most can be written off — stress, exhaustion, or misidenti...

27 Mar 42min

Some stories aren’t told until years later — passed quietly between friends, or remembered only after something brings them back to the surface. Within the Wartime Stories team, a handful of these exp...

21 Mar 49min

During a field exercise in the jungles of the Philippines, a unit of artillerymen responded to a nearby village reporting livestock thefts and the disappearance of a newborn child. What they encounter...

6 Mar 30min

Across every branch of the military, crews depend on their machines for survival — aircraft, ships, and vehicles that become lifelines in combat. But sometimes, certain machines develop reputations th...

20 Feb 45min

During combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, some soldiers reported encounters that didn’t fit any known threat, animal, or enemy tactic. Small humanoid figures seen at night. Unexplained moveme...

6 Feb 38min

In the skies over wartime Europe and the Pacific, Allied pilots began encountering something they couldn’t identify — glowing objects that followed their aircraft, evaded radar, and vanished without e...

2 Feb 54min