No Room for Error’: That’s How These PJs Remember the Thai Cave Rescue By Katie Lange DOD U.S. Air Force Special Operations pararescuemen – called PJs for short – are some of the most highly trained emergency trauma specialists in the U.S. military. They can do it all, including jumping out of planes and SCUBA …
Editor’s note: For years, it was reported we had 17 KIAs that night. However, the MI Sgt. found one who was killed outside FOB 4. His name is removed. Recon Team Leader 1st Lt. Travis Mills was asleep in a hootch in the southeast corner of Recon Company, with several other officers when …
Editor’s note: For years, it was reported we had 17 KIAs that night. However, the MI Sgt. found one who was killed outside FOB 4. His name is removed. The battle below photos 16 SF KIAs – Aug. 23rd by John Stryker Meyer President SFA 78 August 2018 Issue of the Sentinel [Editor’s Note: On Aug. …
The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks launched by the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong on January 30, 1968, throughout South Vietnam that targeted multiple prominent sites, including the Presidential Palace and the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. While the attacks initially took the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces by surprise, they …
That Time CIA Used Tiger Droppings as a Covert Tracking Device CIA There are approximately 3,900 wild tigers left in the world today. Found primarily in the rain forests, grasslands, and savannas of Asia, wild tiger populations have dropped 97% over the last hundred years, making tigers an endangered species. During the Vietnam War era, …
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THE RISE OF THE CHILD GANGSTER PHENOMENON Eben Barlow military and security blog A rising tide of violent crime, a lot of it perpetrated by children and teenagers—themselves often the victims of violence at home, or under peer pressure, or under the influence of alcohol and drugs—has resulted in many blaming the failure of law …
Former German Spy Chief Warns of Perils of Intel Sharing With Austria VOA Jamie Dettmer A former German intelligence chief says NATO secrets aren’t safe to share with Austria, adding his alarm to growing concern among Western intelligence agencies about close ties between senior Austrian ministers and Russia. Fears have mounted about the security trustworthiness …
Former German Spy Chief Warns of Perils of Intel Sharing With Austria VOA Jamie Dettmer A former German intelligence chief says NATO secrets aren’t safe to share with Austria, adding his alarm to growing concern among Western intelligence agencies about close ties between senior Austrian ministers and Russia. Fears have mounted about the security trustworthiness …
