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Yearly Archives: 2021

The Manhunt, the Battle Journal of a Company Commander Dec. 2003

The Manhunt On 11 December 2003, troops of the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized) literally unearthed Saddam Hussein, who had been cowering in a hole about the size of a refrigerator not far from his ancestral home of Tikrit. Within hours stunned audiences around the world witnessed the pathetic remnant of …

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The “Plot” to kidnap Michigan Gov Whitmer thickens as FBI agents get the boot and an informant is a felonious fraud

The cast of characters in the supposed plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Whitmer include unsavory FBI agents and a more unsavory informant. STEPHEN J. ROBESON, a convicted felon and FBI informant has been charged 20 December with fraud. He conned a couple into donating a vehicle for his fake race …

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Paratroopers jump in, bearing gifts, earn foreign jump wings

Paratroopers jump into the holidays By Alexander Gago FORT BENNING, Ga.- Soldiers assigned to the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment donate toys to Columbus, and the Chattahoochee area, December 07, 2021. Soldiers are earning their Canadian and Australian Airborne wings by participating in this year s toy drop. (U.S. Army photos …

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Reporter wants to delink tradition of NORAD and military: Satellites, Fighter Pilots Help Track Santa

An MSNBC reporter may have never been noticed, but now his inappropriate over the Wokey Culture top has Americans wondering. He wants to delink Santa from NORAD tracking and from the military: “No, I’d prefer we end the tradition because it’s about time that we decoupled St. Nick from the …

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Released! 12 U.S. missionaries, including children, kidnapped by a gang in Haiti 16 Oct

Haiti Gang Releases All American Missionaries. VOA Twelve Christian Aid Ministries missionaries held captive by a Haitian gang since October 16 have been released.  Gary Desrosiers, spokesperson for Haiti’s National Police, PNH, confirmed the news in a conversation with VOA Creole. He declined to provide any details. A Christian Aid Ministries …

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Army Officer Alan Alda’s show was based on M*A*S*H’ units in Korean War

Cast of the TV series “M*A*S*H” pictured in a 1972 season premier photo. Alan Alda is left center. photos Courtesy CBS via DOD M*A*S*H’s Alan Alda Was an Army Officer in Korea and Played One on TV DEC. 15, 2021 | BY DAVID VERGUN, DOD NEWS Six-time Emmy Award-winning actor Alan Alda …

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Sports Heroes Who Served: Famous Race Car Driver Also Served in Vietnam

Harris “Hurley” Haywood Sports Heroes Who Served: Famous Race Car Driver Also Served in Vietnam DEC. 14, 2021 | BY DAVE VERGUN & T. ANTHONY BELL, ARMY Harris “Hurley” Haywood is a world-class race car driver and a Vietnam veteran. Haywood, born in 1948, said he got his ambition for automobiles when …

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Who Killed his father, Robert F. Kennedy Sr.

Governor Gavin Newsom will soon decide the fate of Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of killing my father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, in 1968. After more than 50 years in prison, the state’s own psychiatrists and the parole board deem that Sirhan poses no threat to society. ………… sirhan sirhan …

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A MAGNIFICENT FIGHT: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island

A MAGNIFICENT FIGHT: Marines in the Battle for Wake Islandby Robert J. Cressman NPS DOD‘A Difficult Thing To Do’Even as deliberations proceeded to determine the fate of the relief efforts, the men on Wake, ignorant of what was transpiring at Pearl Harbor and on the bridges of Task Force 14’s …

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Marine Corps Maj. Henry T. Elrod fought to the death On Wake Island as the Japanese attacked

Marine Corps Capt. Henry T. Elrod posed for a photo in Quantico, Va., Jan. 7, 1938. 1941:  December 11:   Attack on Wake Island The Japanese attacked Wake Island on December 11, 1941.   The Wake Island Garrison, under Commander Winfield Cunningham, USN, replused the Japanese invasion with shore battery fire, which sank …

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