InHeartbreak Ridge, Clint Eastwood stars as Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway, a troubled drill sergeant tasked with whipping a reconnaissance platoon into shape. Like Highway, Eastwood was drafted into the military during the Korean War. (viaU.S. Department of Defense) He worked as a swimming ins...
Most young men 18 and older had to sign up for the draft.Elvis Presley had his number come inand was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1958. He reportedly had the option to fulfill his service a recruiting model and an entertainer for the troops, but Presley chose to become a common sold...
- Army strength: 482,343 people (0.14% of U.S. population) As the full breadth of the coronavirus pandemic took shape around the world, the Pentagon in March 2020 banned the majority of unofficial troop travel and family members. Gen. Gus Perna, who served as head of Army Materiel Comman...
Born in Rochester, N.Y. on June 2, 1980 the last of seven siblings. Wambach won two Olympic Gold Medals, in 2004 (Athens) and in London (2012). TIME Magazine has named her one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the World. Factoid: In 2016 Mattel Toy Company came out with ...
religion, gender and national origin. It's the result of a strong civil rights movement in the 1960s. The act added protections for the rights to vote, to use public facilities and to enjoying same education as white people. It also contained provisions guaranteeing equal employment opportunitie...
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) drafted the Declaration of Independence, which the Congress adopted on July 4, 1776. The Declaration presented a public defense of the American War of Independence, and most importantly, it explained the philosophy behind the war, that men have a natural right to ...
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