Although the stated purpose of COMMANDO VAULT was to clear LZs, they were also used on enemy base camps and other targets.[citation needed] During the late 1960s, the U.S. was eager to get information on Chinese nuclear capabilities. After the failure of the Black Cat Squadron to plant...
Over the course of 2000 and 2001, Predators operated by the CIA spotted Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan many times, usually when he was driving in a convoy between his training camps. But the unmanned spy planes were toothless and could only watch as bin Laden disappeared. Proposals to arm ...
Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, AK Anchorage, Alaska Military Bases The Elmendorf AFB, Alaska is one of the two major camps that form the more important Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson camp. The installation is part of Anchorage, the largest human settlement in Alaska. The other fort in...
As the United States prepared to enter World War I in the spring of 1917, and as millions of young men gathered in dozens of military training camps across the country, federal officials were worried: these young men might get sick. They might contract pneumonia, tuberculosis,...
I know from reading your articles that your default belief will be that these are for American political prisoners and will be transported to FEMA detention camps of some sort. We have been told by Homeland that these trains are slated for transporting captured terrorists, non-domestic. We are...
I was piloting on the Mississippi when the news came that South Carolina had gone out of the Union on December 20, 1860. My pilot-mate was a New Yorker. He was strong for the Union; so was I. But he would not listen to me with any patience; my loyalty was smirched, to his eye...
In addition, 546 civilians who died in UN prisoner of war camps were turned over to the South Korean government.[207] After Operation Glory, 416 Korean War "unknowns" were buried in the Punchbowl Cemetery. According to a Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) white paper, ...
Villager Potion Batman Villains Damian Wayne (Prime Earth) Top Pages this Week Military ranks of the Philippines 1 Papadopoulos, Alexander.Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey before the European War: on the basis of official documents, New York: Oxford University Press, American branch, 1919. ...
Thousands of enslaved prisoners of war built the Wolf’s Lair and were sent to Nazi death camps within six months of their arrival so they couldn’t reveal the structure’s secrets. The most famous of Adolf Hitler’s many headquarters, Wolfsschanze was a massive complex consisting of 80 buil...
Other targets were the Taliban regime, as well as terrorist training camps and other insurgent and militant groups in Afghanistan. The War in AfghanistanOperation Enduring Freedom began on Oct. 7, 2001, with U.S. and British airstrikes on al-Qaida and the Taliban. Special operations forces ...