“The Fighting 69th” Infantry Regiment was first stood up in 1849 as an all Irish-American militia in the Lower east Side of New York City. Since 1851, the Fighting 69th and its veterans have led the parade without exception. That tradition will continue this year in spite of the Regiment having 1,000 of its Soldiers currently deployed to the Horn of Africa.
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Most Americans feel the US military is overly politicized according to a survey conducted by the Reagan National Defense Forum.
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Nine months after an investigation by the Associated Press determined that hundreds of veterans once stationed at California’s Fort Ord were poisoned by toxic chemicals found in their drinking water, Federal health officials are conducting a study of their own to determine scope and causation of the terminal blood cancer affecting service members.
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A highly deadly king cobra snake measuring seven feet (2.2 meters) long escaped from its terrarium in a Swedish zoo, only to return a week later, earning himself an appropriate moniker and alleviating the concern of its concerned caretakers who have been searching for him since his escape.
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The New Yorker was arrested and charged for attempting to cross the US-Canadian border while smuggling three Burmese pythons in his pants.
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This most recent set of metrics points to a quickly dwindling pool of recruits in the midst of the worst military recruiting crisis that the country has seen since the draft ended along with the war in Vietnam in 1973.
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An earthquake in Mexico earlier this week, roughly one hundred miles southeast of Guadalajara, measured a 7.6 on the Richter scale and caused waves and swells about four feet high in the Devil’s Hole in California’s Death Valley.
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An Army Specialist stationed close to Fort Carson, Colorado was found guilty of stealing a $70,000 recreational camper from their company’s First Sergeant.
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Marine veteran Lloyd Muldrow was thanked by police officers after stopping an armed robber in a Baltimore bar, and then arrested for violation of city ordinance.
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A Virginia country club in Stafford County is dodging criticism and hate after posting a 9/11 themed dinner menu online. The menu was posted for Patriots Day and featured plates and beverages named with 9/11 themes.
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Chicago’s Democratic Mayor, Lori Lightfoot responded to two bus loads of illegal aliens from Texas by saying that she’d be “happy to drain Texas of all its residents.” Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who sent the two busses to Chicago’s Union Station, says that Lightfoot is being an “absolute hypocrite.”
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The former top general in the United States’ Middle Eastern theater reported on Sunday that he had warned President Joe Biden of the catastrophic results from pulling out of Afghanistan in August of last year. According to the former CENTCOM commander, the Pentagon communicated to the White House in no uncertain terms that a total withdrawal from Afghanistan would all but guarantee the Taliban’s return to power and the dissolution of the Afghan government.
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