Cleaning out the garage Kiowa helicopters destined for a foreign partner arrive at Redstone Arsenal Airfield in Alabama in July 2015. Storing the aircraft in flight-ready condition saved the Army and the foreign partner money: The Army avoided the transportation and storage prep cost, and the foreign partner avoided the regeneration cost that would have …
At the World War II Memorial, September 18, 2019, Clarence Smoyer was awarded a bronze star for actions in World War II, on March 6, 1945. Smoyer and his tank crew destroyed a Nazi tank in the German city of Cologne that day. Smoyer was on hand to receive the Bronze Star. Family members representing …
1,903 Days as a POW COL James ‘Nick’ Rowe, POW Diary, 1963-1968 by Michael E. Krivdo, PhDsocom.mil Inthe early morning hours of 29 October 1963, at Tan Phu village in southernmost Vietnam, then-First Lieutenant (1LT) James N. ‘Nick’ Rowe, the Assistant Detachment Commander, Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 23, prepared for a ‘routine’ combat …
AMERICA’S FOREIGN LEGIONNAIRES The Lodge Act Soldiers, Part I by Charles H. Briscoe, PhD From Veritas, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2009 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. After World War II, some fourteen million refugees formed a huge stateless population in Western Europe. The Western Allies simply referred to them collectively as “displaced persons,” or “DPs.” Many …
America’s Foreign Legionnaires: The Lodge Act Soldiers –Part II America’s Foreign Legionnaires: The Lodge Act Soldiers – by Charles H. Briscoe Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Republican), who as a U.S. Sixth Army staff officer in WWII, had seen the British, Russians, and Germans use foreign military units, had promoted the formation of a …
