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And so essentially what happened was he had this guy, Dmitry Utkin, who's a career soldier, a paratrooper, fought in Chechnya, and then became involved in private security first going to Syria with a prior private military company, Slavonic Corps, who is a neo-Nazi and a huge fan of th...
Up on the Jaxartes, Alexander fought fierce battles with the Scythians in their forts and on the steppe (in one of which he was wounded), while dispatching a 2,400-man force to deal with Spitamenes. Spitamenes’ warriors surrounded this force near Samarkand and nearly wiped it out, ...
American soldiers returning home from Vietnam often faced scorn as the war they had fought in became increasingly unpopular.
Eyesight or not, Alaric Valens would take some of the bastards with him before he was killed. "Haha, dis might actually work. Ere, keep 'im still." This command from a different ork came just before the strike to my jaw. The blow damn near took my head off. I heard something crack...
could see what others could not. No doubt this was due more to his acclimatization to that environment than his education in matters of the Bible or the Koran (assuming there’s anything in that book regarding the weather). In the desert, no one ever lives to see a hails...
How the world’s first stealth combat aircraft went on to change forever the way the U.S. fought wars.
Next is myth #2: the truth is that no US serviceman or woman has fought a war in defense of the USA since at least WWII (and even this one is very debatable considering that the US forced Japan to wage war and since the attack on Pearl Harbor was set-up as a pretext to then att...
It worked well for the lower levels, thwarting an attempt to save a cavalier's horse 'drowning' in a desert sinkhole. The only head she shaved was that of a rival mage's feline familiar! Thinking back, I may have been the only male I know of to ever actively play a female character...
The federal case was decided in PG&E's favor in part due to mistakes Renne made in the case in 1996 (see "Presidio Power Outage," 1/1/97). In addition PG&E successfully fought off the city's efforts to get the Presidio electricity contract, which would have brought in needed revenue an...