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U. S. Marines in Urban Warfare

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U. S. Marines in Urban Warfare

Fix Bayonets! by Mustang

Urban areas (cities and large towns), are important centers of gravity —points of interest that involve a complex range of human activities.  Throughout history military commanders have acknowledged that urban areas are either places that require protection, or they are centers that demand firm control.  These are mankind’s centers of population, transportation and communications hubs, seats of government, the sources of national wealth, and concentrations of industry.  Over the past three-hundred years, humans living in agrarian areas ...

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Front Page, Korea, Marines, Viet Nam

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Tootsie Rolls and “The Chosin Few”

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Tootsie Rolls and “The Chosin Few”

From our friend Mike Collins and his pals:

(Note: My wife’s uncle Phillip was one of those Marines. Her father was oder and served on a tin can in the Phillipine Sea but saw no real action. He always looked up to his baby brother as the real combat hero of the family.)

The 68th Anniversary of the Korean War “Chosin Few”…..The Tootsie Roll Marines

On November 26, 1950, 10,000 men of the First Marine Division, along with elements of two ...

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Front Page, Korea, Marines, Readers' Tales

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Chess, Loaded .45’s and the Korean Women’s Business Association.

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Chess, Loaded .45’s and the Korean Women’s Business Association.

I’d been doing some background on our negotiations with North Korea, comparing South Korea from the Vietnam War era to today. I just started a series at my political blog.

I was part of a corps-level exercise near the DMZ. It was in October, ’74, beginning two days after my youngest son was born in Zama, Japan. I picked up my mother at Haneda in Tokyo, took her to our quarters, kissed my wife, new baby and older son, then grabbed my gear, and went to catch ...

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Army, Front Page, Korea, Readers' Tales

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Medal of Honor Monday: Army Lt. Col. John U.D. Page

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Medal of Honor Monday: Army Lt. Col. John U.D. Page

Department of Defense.gov by Katie Lange

Choosing to go to battle when you could stay in the safe zone — that’s something a valiant leader would do, and that’s exactly what Army Lt. Col. John U.D. Page did while serving in Korea.

Page was born in 1904 in the U.S.-governed Philippines, but he grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. His dream of attending West Point was thwarted by poor eyesight, so he went to Princeton instead, where ...

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Trump Awards Medal of Honor to Marine Veteran.

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Trump Awards Medal of Honor to Marine Veteran.

Meet Sergeant Major John L. Canley, a retired marine, America. Canley is the 300th recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

 

 

Remarks by President Trump at the Presentation of the Medal of Honor to Gunnery Sergeant John L. Canley

East Room
4:11 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you. And thank ...

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Current Events, Korea, Marines, Viet Nam

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DoD Agency Identifies Soldiers Lost in Korean War From Returned Remains

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DoD Agency Identifies Soldiers Lost in Korean War From Returned Remains

Last week, the Department of Defense released the first two photographs of two American soldiers who remains were repatriated  from North Korea, returned home in August.

Department of Defense by Jim Garamone (09/21/2018)

Two soldiers who died during the Korean War have been identified from the remains returned from North Korea, President Donald J. Trump announced last night.

Personnel at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified Army Master Sgt. Charles H. McDaniel and Army Pfc. William H. ...

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Army, Korea, Readers' Tales

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The Return of a Korean POW, a local story, 1954

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The Return of a Korean POW, a local story, 1954

The return of the remains of 50 soldiers’ remains from North Korea put me in mind of my first encounter with parades for military heroes. It was a parade in my town for a returning POW from Korea. His name was John Gallagher.

And I was 9.

I knew about the Korean War then, had two uncles who’d served, and came home alive…my mother was always praying them home. So that was the sort of thing a kid would know. But I didn’t really know the ...

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Army, Korea, Readers' Tales

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Wenching on the DMZ; the Owner’s Manual

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Wenching on the DMZ; the Owner’s Manual

 

Stormy Daniels brings to mind the ancient and universal definition of “wench”, a woman of low repute one would not like to be seen with in public.

Politics aside, she’s made public a side of life few Americans, unless born on the wrong side of the tracks know very little about. Still, it seems every American soldier, as far back as the Civil War, when the term “camp follower” became synonymous with off-duty recreation for soldiers, and were a fixture outside ...

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Korea, Readers' Tales, The Beer Tent, Viet Nam

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