By CAPT Donald M. Taub, USCG, Retired On November 5, 1942, a U.S. Army Air Force [USAAF] Douglas C-53 Skytrooper with five men aboard returning from Iceland, reported that it had made a forced landing on the Ice Cap on the SE coast of Greenland somewhere south of the radio …
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VIDEO Capturing This Mountain Was Key During the Battle of Iwo Jima THE WARRIOR’S GRAPEVINE Excerpt from VETERANs by Pete Mecca I heard it through the Warrior’s Grapevine that a veteran of Iwo Jima lived just north of Monticello, GA. Scuttlebutt had it that he’d been on top of Mount Suribachi …
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III honored Medal of Honor recipients Army Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn C. Cashe, Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher A. Celiz, and Army Master Sgt. Earl D. Plumlee at a Hall of Heroes induction ceremony at Conmy Hall at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia. Photo …
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American journalist Brent Renaud reportedly shot and killed at a checkpoint outside Kyiv This is an interview with his partner who was in the car with him. Jack Poseobiec https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1503003793704820738 #UPDATE A US journalist was shot dead and another wounded on Sunday in Irpin, a frontline northwest suburb of Kyiv, …
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Four senior enlisted sailors and a junior officer have been charged for their alleged role in releasing government video footage from USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) Vinson’s Pilot’s Landing Aid Television (PLAT), showing the ramp strike of an F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter in January, 2022, USNI News The USS Stockdale steams in …
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January 13, 2022 9:21 AM VOA News The European Union’s drug regulator is warning that too many doses of COVID-19 vaccines could eventually weaken the body’s immune system, rendering the extra shots ineffective. Marco Cavaleri, the head of vaccine strategy for the European Medicines Agency, said earlier this week that …
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The five Sullivan brothers ‘missing in action’ off the Solomons. THEY did their part. Office of War Information poster shows the Sullivan brothers on board USS Juneau (CL-52) in early 1942. All were lost with Juneau on 13 November of that year. Donation of the Steamship Historical Society of America, …
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Suicide rates among active-duty military members are currently at an all-time highsince record-keeping began after 9/11 and have been increasing over the past five years at an alarmingly steady pace. In 2021, study found that 30,177 active duty personnel and veterans who served in the military after 9/11 have died by suicide – compared to …
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From the Author: Remembrance “Freedom is not Free ! This book includes the experiences of many friends of mine. Read it” Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, Tuskegee Airman, WWII, Ex-Pow, Purple Heart. “A wonderful story of a young son of a Korean veteran who came to respect and publicize the work …
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A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels Africa Unathorized With the collapse of colonialism and the European retreat from Africa the then colony of Southern Rhodesia refused to follow the political fashion of the time and succumb quietly. They decided to …
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