By now you probably have hundreds of thank you letters, I'd like to add another one to the growing list. Last year one of our troop's 2004 Eagle Scouts joined the US Marines. Last February he was sent to Iraq for a tour of duty. Prior to leaving the troop purchased him an Expediti...
Jim Jeffrey, Trump's envoy for Syria, admitted to deceiving the president in order to keep in place "a lot more than" the 200 U.S. troops that Trump had reluctantly agreed to. "We were always playing shell games to not make clear ...
A Chinese invasion would succeed or fail based on its ability to deliver large numbers of troops across the 121-mile wide Taiwan Strait. Sea mines, laid in the path of the invaders, would both sink troop transports and throw a monkey wrench in the People’s Liberation Army’s timetable, ...
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For example, a Navy petty officer can join his wife and share his baby's first moments. An Army private can watch her daughter's graduation. A family can share a holiday meal and open gifts with their Marine son. Family separation is one of the most negative aspects of troop deployment,...
and since nation-building is pretty much a liberal concept, I can envision Obama decreasing the troop levels by some amount at first to save face, and then recasting the whole enterprise in left-liberal terms. He might massively increase the immigration of Iraqis to the U.S., saying we owe...
Reconnaissance plays a key role in army plans. Drones help military commanders keep track of their own troops and also spot enemy troops that might be waiting to ambush U.S. soldiers. Flying robots like the Predator provide constant real-time data on troop movements, enemy locations, and weath...
The song was a mild success on the country charts when it was first released in 1984, but it really started to gain traction during the Gulf War of the early 1990s, when it was played during troop homecomings and parades. The song soared to new heights of patriotic popularity after the ...
Suddenly a troop appeared and things became even more raucous. An older woman managed to get into the middle of the circle and stop us temporarily, complaining that this is not what we should be doing, and we should stick to the older traditions, but the soldiers ignored her and continued...
They needed to build up troop numbers and equipment in Normandy faster than the Germans, allowing for a continued invasion into mainland Europe. The Allies used their air power to slow the German advance toward Normandy by blowing up bridges, railways and roads across t...