Former New South Wales detective sergeant Peter Moroney says the dramatic arrest involving members of the public in Sydney’s CBD on Tuesday shows “people have had enough”. SKY News Australia Above NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has said Tuesday’s dramatic knife rampage in Sydney’s CBD is “not currently classed as a terror incident”. The suspect …
THE RANGERS TAKE HADITHAH DAM by James Schroder as appeared in Veritas On1 April 2003, B Company, 3rd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, stormed the Al-Qadisiyah (Hadithah) Dam complex northwest of Baghdad. Their mission was to prevent Saddam Hussein and his forces from destroying the dam. If the dam was breached, the resulting flood would …
EL PARAISO AND THE WAR IN EL SALVADOR (1981–1983) by Charles H. Briscoe, PhD for SOC.mil From 1980–1993, the government of El Salvador, with U.S. assistance, waged a national counterinsurgency (COIN) campaign against guerrilla forces of the FMLN (Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberación Nacional). That COIN campaign was one of the few successful efforts in recent …
Arkansas Man Charged With Providing Material Support to Al Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula While Overseas Bilal Al-Rayanni, also known as Bilal Kassim Alawdi, 28, a Yemeni national and resident of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, was charged on August 8 in a two-count superseding indictment with providing and attempting to provide material support to Al-Qa’ida in …
The Air Force was in its infancy when the Korean War began, but many of its airmen were experienced war veterans, having fought in World War II in the Army Air Corps. One of those men was Maj. Louis Sebille, a pilot who became the first Air Force recipient of the Medal of Honor. By …
The Challenge Coin Tradition: Do You Know How It Started? Posted on August 13, 2019 by Katie Lange Challenge coins been an American military tradition for a century, meant to instill unit pride, improve esprit de corps and reward hard work and excellence. The coins represent anything from a small unit to the offices of top leaders, such …