The Los Angeles Police Department received three flatbed trucks from the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Law Enforcement Support Office. The trucks are being used to support COVID-19 efforts allowing specialized teams to haul equipment and supplies. Law Enforcement Support Office, more commonly referred to as the 1033 program Is under attack by anti-police activist …
DOD: 2015 The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. POW Lang Vei Army Master Sgt. James W. Holt, 26, of Hope, Ark., will be buried …
Battle of Lang Vei, U.S. Army byJohn A. Cash Deep in the reinforced concrete bunker that served as a tactical operations center, Capt. Frank C. Willoughby, a young Green Beret detachment commander, studied the acetate-covered operations map on the wall before him while he held a telephone to his ear. Power generators and radio static …
The Department of Justice Files Statement of Interest in Support of Equal Treatment of Washington State Church Based on Recent Supreme Court Ruling The Department of Justice today filed a statement of interest in a Washington State federal court supporting the First Amendment religious freedom claims of a Pierce County church, explaining how a recent …
This UH-1B Iroquois ‘Huey’ assault ‘slick’ helicopter with 176th Assault Helicopter Company tail markings was based out of Chu Lai. Note that it has no nose art to identify the unit. MINUTEMEN TO THE RESCUE! by Charles H. Briscoe, PhD 7 February 1968, the 176th Assault Helicopter Company, was rotating two ‘slicks’ and two ‘guns’ …
THE BATTLE OF LANG VEI by Charles H. Briscoe, PhD According to Jane’s Armour and Artillery (1966), the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) had received fifty Soviet PT-76 tanks and fifty BTR-50 armored personnel carriers by 1965. During the Tet Offensive of 1968, a North Vietnamese Army (NVA) tank-led infantry task force overran the northernmost Special …
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war’s turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Meade’s Army of the …