The military has very talented photographers in the ranks, and they constantly attempt to capture what life as a service member is like during training and at war. Here is the best of what they shot this week: An Arizona Army Nat…
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The 101st Airborne Division—the "Screaming Eagles" is a U.S. Army modular light infantry division trained for air assault operations. During World War II, it was renowned for its role in Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, in Normandy, France, Operation Market Garden, the liberation of Holland and action during the Battle of the Bulge around the city of Bastogne, Belgium. During the Vietnam War, the 101st Airborne Division fought in several major campaigns and battles including the fight for Hamburger Hill in May 1969. Nickname - "Screaming Eagles" Motto - "Rendezvous With Destiny" Mascot - Bald Eagle a.k.a. "Old Abe" Engagements World War II / Vietnam War / War in Southwest Asia Afghanistan Campaign / Iraq Campaign No glorification, no heroism, just history. © All rights reserved. This Image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or trasmitted in any forms or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying & recording without My written permission.
When we talk about D-Day, most people picture the landing craft approaching the beaches, troops pouring off into the waves under a hail of German gunfire.
Paratroopers are a common part of modern warfare, it's hard to imagine a modern army without an airborne or air assault element. This form of combat was
My father was a member of the 82 Airborne during World War II. He fought the European war and in the Battle of the Bulge. Lately I hooked up with some guys, one at a local radio station and others on Facebook who are WWII buffs. They have educated me a lot on what my dad did there. The guy at the radio station recommended Band of Brothers for me to watch, which I did, and boy, what an amazing story that is to watch. I also found an old photo album of my dads that has his army pictures in it and his Airborne patch. I took the patch and drew it as well as a B-17 and a paratrooper and combined them into this piece. it is a simple piece, but it is also from the heart. A tribute to those brave men who lost their lives jumping into the heart of battle. God bless them all and their families.
Paratroopers are a common part of modern warfare, it's hard to imagine a modern army without an airborne or air assault element. This form of combat was
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We spoke to a group of female servicewomen currently stationed in Fort Campbell, K.Y. as they prepare for deployment to Afghanistan this spring. Here, five of them talk to us about past deployments, navigating expectations, and their changing roles in the Army
Note: This article was originally written in 2019, and has been recently updated to reflect current events and trends. Any updated information within the article was done by our fact-checker, Fawn. Jump To A Section Where is Airborne School? In the counties surrounding the Chattahoochee River, the natural border between Georgia and Alabama, lies Fort
This video is starting to spread among like-minded web logs, and I want to do my part to see that it receives as wide a distribution as possible. I cannot make anyone watch it, but I can at least make sure that they have the opportunity. Lieutenant General John Kelly, USMC Lieutenant General John Kelly, USMC (soon to receive his fourth star as Commander, US Southern Command) addressed the American Legion convention yesterday in Indianapolis, and it is a speech well worth the time and effort to hear in its entirety. Many of us these days find it difficult to do so because of increasingly competing priorities, but that’s the rub, isn’t it? We always have the same amount of time to do anything, it’s just the constant little decisions that we make that something simply isn’t worth the time, compared to doing something else. For those of you in that situation at the moment, the web site Ace of Spades (whose author is at the convention, though his posting is not at their bidding) has broken the speech into three segments of what he feels are the most germane. Consider them an introduction to hearing the full address. LtGen Kelly, though he does not say so in this speech, has purchased the right to be heard at a very dear price indeed. I posted earlier a transcript of another speech he made to Gold Star families (which deserves reading too), not necessarily because he was invited to speak there, but because he and his wife are unfortunately members of that group. Their son 1stLt Robert Kelly was killed in action in Afghanistan, after having served two tours in Iraq. He does not tell you this, but you can hear his voice catch when he speaks of the casualty officer knocking on his door. Here are some segments to acquaint you with his remarks: We didn’t start this fight. It came to us motivated by a visceral loathing of everything we are. It will not end until our adversaries and their allies around the world – state and non-state alike – understand that we will never lose our faith and our courage as a people. Our enemy is savage, offers absolutely no quarter, has a single focus: that is kill every one of us here at home or enslave us with a sick... extremism that serves no god and no purpose that any decent man or woman could ever understand. I don’t know why they hate us, and I don’t care. But we are America, and we must prevail because we remain mankind’s best hope for the future. Not them. . . . It’s about us and our freedoms as a people. About the way we worship our god. It’s about the value and dignity we place on human life, and our intense belief in the inherent value of every man, every woman and every child and their equality in the eyes of God and under the law. . . . We cherish what our ancestors worked for, fought for and sometimes died for to give us. (The enemy) loathes who we are. These are irreconcilable positions. There is no compromise. And as for our children, our siblings, our family, friends, and acquaintances who carry the fight to the enemy? They were as good, our service people, as any who came before them in our history – as good as what their fathers and grandfathers did in the wars they had to fight for America. But like those who came before them, they were not born killers. Rather, they are overwhelmingly good and decent kids without thought of self who perform remarkable and most often unsung acts of bravery to a cause they decided is bigger and more important than they are themselves. Any one of them could have done something more self-serving. But they didn’t. They chose to serve, knowing full well a vicious war was in their future. They welcome the most basic and esteemed responsibility of a citizen: the defense of country. Men and women of their spirit know no other way. They’re the best of the best of their generation. . . . The real strength of America does not come from making a religion of diversity or emphasizing the differences among us. On the contrary, they have come to a profound understanding of what our founders, our forefathers and foremothers, understood as they built a nation that was once proudly referred to as a melting pot. In our armed forces, the ultimate, most successful institution of American diversity, servicemembers have come to understand the simple fact that America’s strength was and should be again a people stitched together by a shared sense of history, values, customs, hopes and dreams that unite us. That there is great power in us as individuals, but even greater power in individuals who work together and support each other. They also know that the opposite is true, that we are weakened and can lose what we have if we continue down a path of identifying as hyphenated Americans or closed cultural groups focusing on what is in it for me. That in spite of the efforts of those who make their living and often fill their pockets by driving wedges between Americans based on race or religion or ethnicity, our servicemen and women discover early, and on their own, while looking at their comrades standing with them in the ranks, that it is not about the color on the outside, but about the character on the inside. That it’s not about where on earth you were born, but only why you came to America and what you did once you got here. That it’s not about the god you worship – if you worship any god at all – but you will respect the right of your neighbor to honor any god he or she damn well pleases. That it’s not about what you, as an individual, can achieve, but all about achieving together as a people, as friends and neighbors. . . . There is an exceptionalism about America, and we should treasure who we are and why we are extraordinary. We should not be embarrassed about who we are or give excuses about what we have. . . . I’ve seen them literally turn the intangibles of commitment, bravery and selfless devotion into real and meaningful action. In my three tours in this war, I never saw one hesitate or do anything other than lean into the fire and, with no apparent fear of death or injury, take the fight to those who would do you harm. . . . When no one would call them 'coward' for cowering behind a wall or shivering in panic in a bunker, slave to the most basic of all instincts – survival – none of them do. When the calls for the corpsman or medic are shouted from the mouths of young kids who know they will soon be with their God, when seconds seem like hours and it all becomes slow motion and fast-forward at the same time … and the only sensible act is to stop, get down, save yourself, they never did. . . . Yes, this is in many ways essentially the same speech as the one I cited above though with some additions, and it bears repeating, including the part toward the end when he speaks of the request of the young Marine in 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines in Sangin: "Sir, don't let them forget what we did here."
Paratroopers are a common part of modern warfare, it's hard to imagine a modern army without an airborne or air assault element. This form of combat was
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