HistoryOn 19 January 1966, The Adjutant General of the U.S. Army in Vietnam published the first issuance of the United States Army in Vietnam Circular 210- 2, INSTALLATIONS: Station List. From that date until 15 January 1973, more than 40 editions of this circular were issued. In simple...
The population-attributable risk proportion for units with a history of 5 or more SAs revealed that 4.1% of subsequent SAs could be eliminated if risk was reduced to that of units in which there were 4 SAs or fewer. We further examined the robustness of unit SAs by adding prior mental ...
Article History Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), elective military education program hosted by colleges and universities that prepares students to be commissioned as officers in the U.S. armed forces. ROTC programs are offered by the United States Army, Air Force, and Navy (including th...
Army veterans at the greatest risk of asbestos exposure served prior to the 1980s in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Still, asbestos-containing structures remained for decades to come. Some barracks, such as Fort Bragg, contain small amounts of asbestos even today. U....
Frontline units in Korea and Europe had suffered a decade of neglect because they also had been used as a reservoir of combat leaders, specialists, and equipment for operations in Vietnam. In addition to its ravaged force structure, the Army had deferred modernization of weapons and equipment ...
Combat at Close Quarters: An Illustrat-ed History of the US Navy in the Vietnam War Edward Marolda, a former senior historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command, has brought together four authors to detail the US Navy's major combat operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam conf...
The combination poncho/tent section would serve in Korea later. A new uniform, known asOG-107, was first introduced in 1952. By the beginning of theVietnam War, it had completely replaced the M-1943 Uniform as the standard in the Army. ...
Julian J. Ewell, who commanded the 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam and later II Field Force, which oversaw units in the Saigon area and Mekong Delta. Ewell may have been influenced by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara’s statistically minded bean counters in the Pentagon. The authors say...
Zdenek BarinkaIn the waning days of World War II, a battalion of Russian soldiers find themselves lost in enemy territory. Stumbling upon a village decimated by an unseen terror, they discover that a mad scientist (Hellboy's Karel Roden) conducts experiments to fuse flesh and steel, creating ...
The 1960s brought another set of challenges. The Cold War began that decade, and Cuba became the face of America's closest communist threat. Vietnam, a war that many protested, began with troops arriving in the country as early as 1965. From the 1970s to the 1980s, the U.S. struggle...