All reporting, photos DOD The FY 2019 ASFF budget request supports this U.S. objective and provides the resources to fund an authorized end-strength of 352,000 comprised of 193,004 Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel, 116,714 Afghan National Police (ANP) personnel, 10,841 Afghan Air Force (AAF) personnel, and 31,441 Afghan Special Security Forces (ASSF) personnel. The request …
Soldiers see Afghan security forces taking lead with new capabilities By Sean Kimmons, Army News Service After an insider attack killed the police chief of Kandahar Province and wounded two U.S. Soldiers, the Afghan government had a defiant response, a senior Army officer said Wednesday. The Taliban had hoped the Oct. 18 attack would deter …
Trapped, Soldiers endure brutal firefight during siege of Hue By Gary Sheftick, Army News Service The ferocity of the Tet Offensive, which began 51 years ago this week, surprised most Americans, including service members manning the television station in Hue, Vietnam. Detachment 5 of the American Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) was located in a villa …
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced the United States will suspend its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty as of February 2, accusing Russia of “material breach of obligations,” RFE reported. “The United States will therefore suspend its obligations under the INF Treaty effective February 2. We will provide Russia and …
Afghan Commandos Free Dozens From Taliban Prison Afghan special forces freed dozens from Taliban captivity in southeastern Ghazni province earlier this week, Afghan officials told VOA on Wednesday. A member of the Afghan Special Operations Corps said civilians and Afghan service members were among those freed from a Taliban prison. VOA’s Mohammad Habibzada reports. Prison …
MAG-36 | Remembering Hue City Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, the first complete Marine air group to be transported by sea to a combat zone, launched from the USS Princeton to the shores of Vietnam, Sept. 1, 1965. Immediately, they began providing troop lifts, air strikes, medical evacuation, resupplies, and reconnaissance insertions …
The U-2 story and its legendary pilot Frances Gary Powers is on the radar again. His son Francis Gary Powers Jr. has written a book Spy Pilot, Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy: Letters From a Soviet Prison. May Day Over Moscow: The Francis Gary Powers Story CIA Fifty-nine …
U-2 Where did it come from? CIA Let’s follow this transport plane and find out. This is the desert of western Nevada; already well known for its nuclear tests by the Atomic Energy Commission here at Yucca Flats. Adjoining this AEC test site is inactive aerial gunnery range. Early in 1955, by presidential order, sixty …
