Appearing before a committee of MPs earlier this month, Lieutenant General Sharon Nesmith, deputy chief of the general staff, spoke about the army's plans to modernise, which were set out in 2021 as part of a body of work that was done in line with the government's inte...
US Army Surgeon General; Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Hood, British Army Surgeon; and Major General Paul R. Hawley, Surgeon ETOUSA. On 29 July, the organization was visited by 18 inspectors, including Generals Faith and Kennedy, IGD. Between July and August 1944 a total of 70 inspections ...
Halfway across the continent Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton surrendered his emaciated forces at Vicksburg to Major General Ulysses S Grant which cut the Confederacy in half. Of course Lee had a direct hand in that debacle as well by rejecting all attempts to send significant forc...
As Army officerPaul Yinglingfamously wrote (“A Failure in Generalship”), a private is severely punished for losing a rifle but generals get promoted for losing wars. I doubt this is going to change. Instead, under Trump it appears the firing of generals is another leg of his vengeance to...
GO 141* (AG 322 OpGC & AG 322.01 OpGC), signed by Lieutenant General W. B. Smith, Chief of Staff, announced the establishment of the Graves Registration Service Command, United States Forces, European Theater including the announcement of assignment of Brigadier General James W. Younger, US ...
United States of America (1944-1945) Flail Tank – 2 Built In 1944, the United States Army began testing British-built flail tanks such as the Crab and Scorpion. Mine flails like these consist of a rotating drum connected to a series of chains suspended from the front of the vehicle. ...
"In 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, in charge of the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system, saw that five missiles had been launched by the United States. The eyes of all his subordinates were upon him. Had he passed the information along to his superiors, it ...
Fivecoat, a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, which is focused on the Iraqi war. He states that he is fascinated by the comment related to the promotion of the officers who served in the war. In response to this analysis, Fivecoat replied that his article was an attempt to add ...
Diane Randon, assistant deputy chief of staff, G2; Lieutenant General Gary Brito, the Army G1; and Sergeant Major Julie Guerra, Army G2. I've also signed a new Missing Soldier Policy. The policy will assist in tracking and finding missing soldiers. It clarifies expectations and ...
John Robert Fox (May 18, 1915 – December 26, 1944) was a United States Army first lieutenant who was killed in action after calling in artillery fire on the enemy during World War II. In 1997, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration for valor, for...