Most Decorated Flight in Military History By DOD’s Katie Lange History-making missions are often best told in photos, so it’s pretty cool to know that photos were the mission of one of the most highly decorated aircrews in U.S. military history. Capt. Jay Zeamer. US Air Force During World War II, there was a crew …
Spy Trial Of U.S. Consulate Staffer Opens In Istanbul RFE A Turkish employee of the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul has appeared in court to face charges of espionage and attempting to overthrow Turkey’s government in a case that has fueled tensions between the United States and its NATO ally. The trial against Metin Topuz, a …
Inmates End Own Lives to Protest Rebel Kurdish Leader’s Treatment in Turkey VOA Rikar Hussein Ezel Sahinkaya At least four Kurdish activists have died in prisons across Turkey since last week, in what lawyers and officials have called suicides over the poor prison conditions of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan. The series of …
KING OF BATTLE: U.S. ARMY’S FIeld Artillery in Vietnam By Boyd L. Dastrup Army.mil The Vietnam Years While the Army modernized its field artillery, a crisis in Southeast Asia attracted American attention. After eight years of fighting to preserve its colonial empire, France finally suffered defeat at the hands of Ho Chi Minh, an ardent …
Outside the Wire in Blue BY BABA TIMforthefreqmedia.com I was asked to review another book written by contractors who served in Afghanistan (and Iraq) titled Outside the Wire in Blue. The book is a series of first-person accounts written by various lawmen who worked the Law Enforcement Professionals (LEP) program in Afghanistan. Being an outside …
UPDATE Naval investigators are digging deeper into the case against Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher. Search warrant documents and email messages from Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents that were leaked to Navy Times reveal the seizure of cell phones and electronic communications beginning in early February, broadening the scope of the investigation. The hunt for documents is …
