Maher making sense, warns Dems against gun control platform By Dave Workman Late night comedian Bill Maher warned Democrats against making gun control a cornerstone issue in the 2020 election cycle, according to Fox News, and in the process, he may have cracked a code that anti-gun liberals seem unable or unwilling to accept. “I …
Rescue in Bay of Biscay | HMS Argyll Royal Navy The crew of HMS Argyll spent eight hours saving every soul aboard the Grande America in the Bay of Biscay after the ship’s cargo of containers and cars caught fire. HMS ARGYLL RESCUES 27 CREW FROM BLAZING SHIP 11 March 2019 The crew of HMS …
The competition is reminiscent of the guns run during the siege of Ladysmith during the Boer War. On a cloudy spring day the public poured in to HMS Collingwood, Fareham in their thousands to enjoy the annual Open Day featuring the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity Field Gun Competition, which this year saw 22 crews …
November, 2004 – Into the hot zone at the Second Battle of Fallujah By Pablo Villa Staff Sgt. David Bellavia was bleary eyed. He had been awake nearly 48 hours, denied sleep by a cacophony of sporadic gunfire aimed at him and his platoon as they made their way through the streets of Fallujah, Iraq. …
Soldier who battled in Fallujah to receive highest military honor By Joe Lacdan, Army News Service Former Staff Sgt. David Bellavia will be awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery during some of the deadliest fighting in Iraq, President Donald Trump announced today. A squad leader during the second battle of Fallujah, Bellavia, now …
More than 40,000 combatants from over 110 countries had joined terrorist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq. Meanwhile, some 5,600 fighters from 33 nations have returned home, many equipped to carry attacks out on their native soil, or drum up new recruits, according to the U.N.. So who are the U.S. Foreign Fighters in Syria, …
Alpha Company, the original Marine Raiders “When you’re part of a boat company, you’re one of a select few,” says Third Platoon Commander 1st Lt. Emeka Amaeze Jr., an infantry officer with the original Raiders of Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines. These small cohesive units of infantrymen, regularly operating aboard Combat …
“(That) comfortable old cluck,” he said, “would fly like hell, fight like a wasp upstairs, and land like a butterfly.” The P-38: When Lightning Strikes Lockheed The pilot in a new American fighter, the P-38 Lightning, peeled down from the skies over Iceland on August 14, 1942. True to its name, the P-38 was akin …
