Over three decades of long-term strategic partnerships, successfully delivering specialised security services to customers in high risk environments according to the official website of G4S. RFE Afghan officials say at least 10 people have been killed and 19 wounded in an attack that targeted a foreign security contractors’ compound in the capital, Kabul. Interior Ministry …
Bush’s Legacy Includes Decisive Military Action By Jim Garamone DOD His background was a little different than most who join the military at the age of eighteen, but his warmth, love of country and drive to serve made him a leader respected up and down his chains of command. President George H.W. Bush meets …
1944, a 20-year-old Naval Aviator named George Bush embarked on a mission which he would later describe as one of the most dramatic moments of his life — an experience which gave him a “sobering understanding of war and peace.” “There’s no question that it broadened my horizons,” Vice President Bush said. “And there’s no …
George Herbert Walker Bush 12 June 1924 − 30 November 2018 Upon hearing of the Pearl Harbor attack, while a student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, George Bush decided he wanted to join the Navy to become an aviator. Six months later, after graduation, he enlisted in the Navy on his 18th birthday and began …
Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service—to be, in his words, “a thousand points of light” illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world. President Bush always found a way to set the bar …
The CIA’s Covert Operations in Laos during the Vietnam War. Above Photograph: a landing strip (Lima Site) near Pakse in southern Laos, during the Vietnam War. (© Lee Gossett) Jack Jolis served as a case officer in the CIA, operating the Rascal program out of Lima Site-20 Alternate, or Long Tieng, for much of 1970. These are …
Today SOF friend and contributor, Susan Katz Keating posted a tribute to Col MacKenzie, killed in Sierra Leone. She forwarded comments from those who remembered Mac. Raise a memorial birthday glass to my former colleague MacKenzie, with whom I once plotted the invasion of Nicaragua (for Soldier of Fortune… it was an exercise… really). Thanks in …
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‘Bump Stock’ Ban Might Be Brief Victory for ‘Rights Deniers’ November 30, 2018 By Dave Workman News agencies are reporting that the Trump administration may ban “bump stocks.” (Screen capture, YouTube, Central Texas Survival) According to CNN and other news agencies, the Trump administration “plans to announce” a ban on “bump stocks “in the coming …
Note to university: Don’t take hockey pucks to gunfights By Dave Workman Self-defense experts and instructors often quip that you should “never take a knife to a gunfight,” and this classroom defense scheme seems to ratchet that up a notch or two. The late Don Rickles used to refer derisively to some people as “hockey …
