William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, one of the World War II veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries “Band of Brothers,” has died. He was 90. Read more
This series laid the foundation for media coverage of the later Iraq war. Profiles crews were the first in recent times embedded with U.S. forces in combat. They also were embedded with U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan and at other fronts of the war on terrorism.
Richard Mackenzie led the production in Afghanistan, working with Special Operations and with infantry units.
A U.S. Special Forces intelligence sergeant assigned to Special Operations Task Force – South climbs over the ruins of an abandoned compound during a security patrol Feb. 20, 2011 in Panjwai District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The SOTF-South Special Forces team in the area conducts regular patrols in order to secure known abandoned compounds from the possible storage of explosives making material. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Ben Watson)(Released). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama, is the leader of the exiled Tibetan government in India. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. Photographed during his visit in Cologno Monzese MI, Italy, on december 8th, 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
On this day in 1959, Tibetans band together in revolt, surrounding the summer palace of the Dalai Lama in defiance of Chinese occupation forces. Read more
WOW! Mind boggling amounts of a Taliban munitions cache are recovered from ONE small compound. It takes 20 “jingle trucks” (?) to transport it away from enemy hands.
Another episode of Profiles. See earlier episodes (1-3) for full description.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. – The cryptic note penned by Abraham Lincoln identifies its recipient only as “my dear Sir” and has a small section carefully clipped out.
Who was he writing to and why was a key piece of information later removed so meticulously? Read more
English: Generals Obregon, Villa and Pershing meet at Ft Bliss, TX (George S Patton behind Pershing and to the right ) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Angered over American support of his rivals for the control of Mexico, the peasant-born revolutionary leader Pancho Villa attacks the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. Read more
There the Continental Congress adopted my stars and stripes as the national flag.
My thirteen stripes alternating red and white, with a union of thirteen white stars in a field of blue, represented a new constellation, a new nation dedicated to the personal and religious liberty of mankind. Read more
In honor of International Women’s Day I’d like to give a shout out to all the ladies whom have or still are serving in the Military. Nice work ladies! Thank you for all you’ve done for our country.
Save the Children created this striking video depicting the life of a child in England if they lived in a country at war, like Syria, in an effort to raise funds for Syrian child refugees.
The video tells the story of a year in the life of a young English girl in a series of one-second “days.” The year starts out great; the little girl celebrates a birthday, but that’s where the happiness ends as her country goes to war. Read more
The United States government issues a public statement accusing the Soviet Union of using poison gas and chemical weapons in its war against rebel forces in Afghanistan. The accusation was part of the continuing U.S. criticism of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Read more
WASHINGTON –According to sources, that sputtering relic from Basement Level 2B in the Pentagon has been completely beside himself this week, ever since the crisis in Ukraine and the subsequent Russian occupation of Crimea reminded leaders that Russia has a military and that the United States apparently employs people to know about it. Read more
Special Operations Forces (Photo credit: The U.S. Army)
This series laid the foundation for media coverage of the later Iraq war. Profiles crews were the first in recent times embedded with U.S. forces in combat. They also were embedded with U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan and at other fronts of the war on terrorism.
Richard Mackenzie led the production in Afghanistan, working with Special Operations and with infantry units.
This series laid the foundation for media coverage of the later Iraq war. Profiles crews were the first in recent times embedded with U.S. forces in combat. They also were embedded with U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan and at other fronts of the war on terrorism.
Richard Mackenzie led the production in Afghanistan, working with Special Operations and with infantry units.
Though relatively little official data exists about female Vietnam War veterans, the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation estimates that approximately 11,000 military women were stationed in Vietnam during the conflict. Nearly all of them were volunteers, and 90 percent served as military nurses, though women also worked as physicians, air traffic controllers, intelligence officers, clerks and other positions in the U.S. Women’s Army Corps, U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marines and the Army Medical Specialist Corps. In addition to women in the armed forces, an unknown number of civilian women served in Vietnam on behalf of the Red Cross, United Service Organizations USO, Catholic Relief Services and other humanitarian organizations, or as foreign correspondents for various news organizations. Read more
In October of 2001 the US launched Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
This series laid the foundation for media coverage of the later Iraq war. Profiles crews were the first in recent times embedded with U.S. forces in combat. They also were embedded with U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan and at other fronts of the war on terrorism.
Richard Mackenzie led the production in Afghanistan, working with Special Operations and with infantry units.
Maiden on the Midway 
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