NVA Hordes, Weather Close in By John Stryker Meyer Chapter.5.Tailwind from SOG Chronicles For three and a half days the Green Berets and their Montagnard counterparts of B Company Hatchet Force in MACV-SOG (SOG) had successfully accomplished their mission: Take pressure off of the CIA’s Operation Gauntlet in southern Laos on the Bolovens Plateau west …
Army Sniper school candidates discover the key to lethality is ‘a high tolerance for discomfort’ By Don Wagner, Army News Service For the candidates who made it to week two of the U.S. Army Sniper School at Fort Benning, Georgia, their greatest challenges where just beginning. Students in their ghillie suits were dispersed throughout the …
‘A difficult and dirty job’: Soldiers push their limits in training at Army Sniper School By Don Wagner, Army News Service Sniper candidate Spc. Logan Boling, camouflaged in a ghillie suit, had been hiding in the woods under leaves and branches for what seemed like hours. He was attempting to crawl undetected several hundred meters, …
‘Don’t come here unless you are prepared’: U.S. Army Sniper School sets high bar for candidates By Mr. Donald R Wagner (Army News Service)D At first glance, the U.S. Army Sniper School may seem like a reality TV elimination show akin to “Survivor.” Of the 46 candidates who entered the course in August, only four …
THE “RED LINE” The Syria intervention began with Obama’s State Department Secret Cable “We can’t definitely say 100 percent, but Syrian contacts made a compelling case that Agent 15 was used in Homs on Dec. 23,” an official was quoted in 2013. Missile attacks have been launched since 2012 under the Obama and Trump administration triggered …
Lethality Task Force Leaders: U.S. Ground Fighters Must ‘Overmatch’ Enemies By Jim Garamone, DoD American ground fighters must overmatch any potential adversary, now and in the future, the men in charge of the Close Combat Lethality Task Force said. Robert Willke, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, and retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert …
Lethality Task Force Leaders: U.S. Ground Fighters Must ‘Overmatch’ Enemies By Jim Garamone, DoD American ground fighters must overmatch any potential adversary, now and in the future, the men in charge of the Close Combat Lethality Task Force said. Robert Willke, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, and retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert …
Photo prints and story permission granted by the Benavidez family. RAUL (ROY) PEREZ BENAVIDEZ An American hero Raul “Roy” Benavidez was born in 1935 near Cuero, TX to impoverished sharecroppers of Mexican and Yaqui Indian ancestry. Both parents died of tuberculosis before his eighth birthday. He and his younger brother, Roger, along with 8 cousins, …
ABOVE The F-35 Patuxent River Integrated Test Force team brings the U.S. Marine Corps’ F-35B one step closer to initial operational test and evaluation as they wrap up testing of the F-35B STOVL envelope with sloped surface vertical landing tests January and February at Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field (MCALF) Bogue, N.C. Through a series …
