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If there hadn't been mass resignations from the USMA of those leaving to go fight for the South his ranking might have been different. But it was what it was, and despite that he became the highest-ranking officer from his class. However, one thing I have never read about or heard is that...

Sounds like resurrecting the Young Pioneers from the old days. Graduates of the YP nowadays are rare, but I worked with two in the day. Both were championship pistol shooters.

Our aviators carried .38s in shoulder holsters through the Gulf War. Never heard any complaints.

I need to make a correction. It was issued in late 1977, and we got them in mid-1978 as the first unit in USAREUR.

Also, the MG was first fielded as the MAG 58 in 1976 as the coaxial mg in M60A1 RISE Passive Tanks. Our unit was the first to get them. The M1 Abrams was some years down the road.

Great story. I'm surprised the Army Sergeant only got five years at heard labor for espionage especially in the 50s.

Great. I expect deportations of illegals to skyrocket any day now, right? s/o

Even if it worked as intended, the CAS concept for combat aviation withered on the vine even without the USAF throwing fits. After VN, it became a maneuver arm with two functions as attack aviation and air cavalry. Hence, the Directorate of Armor Aviation developed doctrine while Rucker was a...

I'm with you. If I remember first flight was in 1964. I echo your thoughts that one can only imagine what they are testing now. Just color me skeptical about these first blush images.

Agree, just mentioned that certain activities have been moved to different locations.

1. Project Fear is a paranormal TV series and YouTube channel. IOW someone may have saw something or not. Then it's repeated ad nauseum. I don't accept their images at face value. Heck, a buddy of mine and I made a fake but damned good image of a flying saucer in sixth grade. Today, no...

Good article, but one quibble. Like common misunderstandings about the battle of Britain, there is a big misunderstanding about German ground operations. That is, there was no such thing as "blitzkrieg" in German doctrine. In its day it was simply known as a war of movement. The term...

I teach HS science and there are schools who go soft on the subject. We had a surge of transfer students come in the last six week cycle and said they had not covered topics we had completed in the first semester. All comments above are essentially correct concerning some schools but not all...

We've seen this before where the author misinterprets Newton's Third Law: action-reaction. The action-reaction pair does produce equal force, but Newton's Second Law: Force equals mass times acceleration, means the acceleration is inversely proportional to mass. A person holding a two pound...

And yet YouTube allows so-called "history" videos which are mostly AI crap and/or the most error prone, amateur produced junk I've seen. And commenters point this out, but they keep coming back. Seems like these 13 year olds in their mom's basement can monetize a lot of junk.

Working in the National Capital Region especially at the higher levels brings on high intensity stress exceeded only by combat in my experience. Some can deal with it, some thrive in it, while in others it can take a toll physically, mentally and spiritually. I'm not saying I know what the...

Your experiences make sense. Everything was going to VN at that time. Manpower, support were all reduced in Europe. I was told in some units Captains were commanding battalions, Majors regiments, etc.

What years were this? I was stationed in Germany mid to late 70s and war damage was rare. In one case, our barracks still showed the pock marks from shell fire externally but were fixed up inside. The pock marks were left by the Germans as a remembrance of what had happened. If one wanted to...

Believe it or not, our squadron was flying AH-1 production models (Prods) as late a the summer of 1990. Typical minigun and 40mm chunker turret, rockets and TOW missiles. Once we were ordered to deploy to Desert Storm we transitioned to fully modernized models (Fox models) with 20mm cannon up...

I watched the trailer the other day and I don't think this is a remake of the original, which JMO was a horrible war movie full of inaccuracies and pop history. This one seems to be a composite of the book, "Those Damned Engineers" and historical accounts of overrun units which formed ad hoc...