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Layka, a Belgian Malinois, shot four times by an AK-47 at point-blank range while protecting her handler in Afghanistan. Despite her severe injuries, she attacked and subdued the shooter, saving the life of Staff Sgt. Julian McDonald and the rest of the team behind her.

The mission that night was direct action in the truest sense, a special operations raid where Layka went in ahead of the team to clear a building believed to be empty. It wasn't. In the dark, wearing night vision, she found a man lying still in a corner that everyone assumed was already dead. She engaged him. He wasn't dead at all, and he opened fire on her at point-blank range, six to eight rounds from an AK-47, four of them finding their mark, tearing through her tricep and completely destroying the ball and socket of her shoulder. She still took him down.

McDonald pulled her from the building and used his own training as a physician's assistant to render first aid on the spot, buying her the time she needed to reach a field hospital. Surgeons saved her life but couldn't save the leg, amputating it during the first of several operations that followed, one in theater, another in Germany. She was medically retired that August, and McDonald refused to let her live out her retirement anywhere but with him, fighting to adopt her despite warnings that a dog trained for war might not adjust to a house full of kids. She lay down in front of his one-year-old son the day she came home and let him climb all over her.

Layka went on to grace the cover of National Geographic in 2014, becoming one of the most recognized war dogs in American history, and lived out the rest of her life as a beloved family pet before passing at 13, honored one final time by the veterinarians and handlers who'd cared for her.

 

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In the Second World War, the U.S. Army used the Jeep in many different configurations and special roles.
Some of the most unique versions were made for cavalry and reconnaissance units. These lightly armored and armed Jeeps carried a range of weapons, from .30 caliber machine guns to twin bazookas.

The one pictured here sports a powerful .50 caliber machine gun, showing off the Jeep’s adaptability and importance in mobile warfare and forward scouting.

 

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On October 2, 2012, Second Lieutenant Nicholas Dockery's platoon and their Afghan partners were ambushed by an estimated 150 Taliban fighters in Kapisa Province, Afghanistan. Most men would have taken cover. Dockery led the assault instead.

He crossed 100 yards of open fire swept terrain to reach besieged American soldiers, then fought his way into a building held by the enemy, clearing six rooms room by room. When a grenade landed nearby, he shoved a teammate out of the blast radius, saving his life.

He kept going. Leading a four man team to clear a courtyard, an RPG explosion left two soldiers down and left Dockery himself dazed and wounded. He didn't stop. He killed two enemy fighters closing in on a wounded American, gave first aid under fire, and used his own body to shield that soldier from further harm.

Then he climbed onto an exposed rooftop, again and again, to mark his position for air support and cover the medevac of his men. He was the last man to leave the battlefield.

On June 18, 2026, nearly 14 years later, Nicholas Dockery received the Medal of Honor at the White House.

 

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