Showing posts with label Army. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Army. Show all posts
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Military Stats

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Many   posts  have  discussed   the US  military . Jenn Hatfield at Pew: As of the end of March, the U.S. military had 1.32 million active-d...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Juneteenth and the Army

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From the US Army: ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Juneteent h is known as America’s “second” Independence Day because it commemorates the en...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Eighty Years After D-Day

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From the US Army : Immediately after France fell to the Nazis in 1940, the Allies planned a cross-Channel assault on German occupying forces...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Military Demographics

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From the Department of Defense: The total number of military personnel is almost 3.5 million strong, including DoD Active Duty military pe...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Americans View the Military Services

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Gallup reports: Americans believe that the U.S. Army is the most important service branch to national defense, followed closely by the Ai...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

"Religious Extremism" List

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The Archdiocese for the Military Services (AMS) issued a statement on the inclusion of “ Catholicism ” as an example of “religious extremis...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

Army's Fast Track to Citizenship

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Many posts have discussed the connection between military service and citizenship .  The Associated Press reports: As debate swirls in...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Horses and the Military

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From  The John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center The Senior Mountaineering Course includes tactical mountain operations, field-craft train...

Bayonets

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ABC News reports: The most memorable line of Monday night’s debate was President Obama’s pointed “horses and bayonets” jab at Mitt Romney ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Celebrating Army Rangers

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A central theme of our book is that, while self-interest explains a lot about government, it does not explain everything.  Self-sacrifice is...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

The Buffalo Soldiers

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From the Library of Congress : T he term “buffalo soldiers” dates to post- Civil War conflicts with Indians who...