CDCR Announces Additional Actions to Reduce Population and Maximize Space Systemwide to Address COVID-19 JULY 10, 2020 Estimates of 8,000 inmates could be eligible for release by end of August, in addition to the state’s reduction of about 10,000 persons since the start of the pandemic SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation …
Demonstrators went from Westlake Park to the Municipal Courthouse and then headed back north to the West Precinct…leaving behind a trail of property destruction. These are criminal acts, not peaceful protests Significant Property Damage, Officers Injured During Protest. Written byPublic Affairson July 19, 2020 9:33 pm The protesters broke out several windows of the East Precinct, then …
A U.S. M-113 armored personnel carrier finds shelter in a laundromat December 1989 during Operation Just Cause in Panama City. Heavy (armored) forces provided firepower, protection, and mobility during combat and were critical to the success of the operation in Panama’s urban terrain. (Photo courtesy of the Maxwell Thurman Photograph Collection at the U.S. Army …
An Airman assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing was found unresponsive in a dormitory room at approximately 8:50 a.m. July 20, 2020, at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. Emergency responders arrived on scene and pronounced the Airman deceased 20 minutes later. The name of the deceased will be withheld for 24 hours pending notification …
Pvt. Harry Fisher Private Harry Fisher’s True Identity Pvt. Harry Fisher was the first marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously “for distinguished conduct in the presence of the enemy at the Battle of Peking, China, June 20th to July 16, 1900.” Fisher was killed on July 16 while assisting to erect a …
U.S. Marines in the Boxer Rebellion By Trevor K. Plante DOD In 1900 a crisis erupted in China as the “Boxers” increased their resistance to foreign influence and presence. By the end of the nineteenth century, several countries had already established spheres of influence in China. In the fall of 1899, Secretary of State John …
U.S. Navy Amphibious Assault Ship USS Tripoli Joins the Fleet The U.S. Navy commissioned USS Tripoli (LHA 7), today, July 15, 2020. Although the Navy canceled the traditional public commissioning ceremony due to public health and safety restrictions on large public gatherings, the Navy commissioned the USS Tripoli administratively and the ship transitioned to normal …
Medal of Honor Monday: Marine Corps Sgt. John Mapes Adams JULY 20, 2020 | BY KATIE LANGE, DOD NEWS Not all Medal of Honor recipients participated in the major wars we’ve studied so closely in history classes. Marine Corps Sgt. John Mapes Adams is one of the few recipients who earned a grateful nation’s highest honor outside …
May 19th Communist Organization, was “a Marxist-Leninist organization which advocated the armed revolution and violent overthrow of the United States Government.” “President Bill Clinton’s pardon of Susan L. Rosenberg, a one-time member of the Weather Underground terrorist group who was charged in the notorious 1981 Brink’s robbery in Rockland County that left a guard and …