“HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD.” For 100 years, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has served as the heart of Arlington National Cemetery. As a sacred memorial site and the grave of three unknown American service members, the Tomb connects visitors with the …
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‘It Was Just Wild’: Guardsmen Fight Fires From the Sky ‘It Was Just Wild’: Guardsmen Fight Fires From the Sky | BY KATIE LANGE, DOD NEWS A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew chief uses a Bambi bucket to collect water for aerial firefighting. Several Idaho National Guard members battle wildfires in the …
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NOTE: More than 2,557,537 acres have burned in 104 large fires/complexes in 12 states. All large fires in CA were active August 20. The Dixie Fire burned 35,000 acres and is now 662,547 acres. The Caldor Fire made a run of nearly 40,000 acres. Dr. Gary Stephen Maynard, U.S. Attorney …
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by Alex QuadeDiyala Province, Iraq — Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (A-Team) 072 rolled into the village. It was dead quiet. Nothing moved. Suddenly, “squirters”—people running away from the village and cars leaving at a high rate of speed. Clearly, something of interest was in that village. A-Team Commander Captain …
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“I am deeply honored & grateful to join the ranks of men & women across this great nation who have committed to defend the United States against small & large threats, known and unknown. I promise to uphold that trust to the fullest extent of my abilities,” Dr Rachel Levine …
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city’s Fraternal Order of Police is attempting to “induce an insurrection” by opposing vaccine mandate. Chicago police are under threat of being fired, losing retirement benefits, time off if they don’t follow Mayor Lightfoot’s order to vaccinate. Most recently, officers have been stripped of …
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Here are a few more pictures of the 7:15am swearing-in with our local, state and federal law enforcement partners. 18 January, Approximately 400 to 450 people were inside the protest area today (excluding law enforcement). in the Insurrection II protest. “The comedy of today’s protest, billed by the media as …
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Although the majority of the uniformed OSS SO and SI officers had received commissions in the Army or the Army Air Corps, there were a few naval officers and a couple of dozen Marines. The most famous Marine in the OSS was Major Peter Julien Ortiz, who with two Navy Crosses …
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the Karada bombing that killed 250 and wounded 200 was the deadliest bombing since the beginning of the war. More than five years after the Karrada bombing, which broke the hearts of Iraqis, our heroic forces, after a complex intelligence pursuit outside Iraq, succeeded in arresting the terrorist Ghazwan al-Zawba’i, …
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Operation Desert Storm Caption: US and British military personnel converse in Bahrain on a pier beside the Royal Navy’s logistic landing ship RFA Sir Galahad (L-3005). Pictured, from left, are: Corporal Lemuel Maynor, USMC; Lieutenant Paul Dobson, Lieutenant D.P. Wolstenholme, and Diver Steven Fitzjohn of the Royal Navy; Lance Corporal …
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