Quote of the Day
Semper Fidelis (Always faithful)
-- US Marine Corps Motto
News of NoteOperation Iraqi FreedomAl Qaeda in Iraq Vows Revenge for 'Rape'-
Iraq 'Dirty Bomb' Factory Raided Iraqis eke out living in Baghdad rubbish dumpMilitary.com Blog:
An Update on Iraq's ProvincesOperation Enduring FreedomBritain to send extra troops to Afghanistan: report (So everybody just cut the Brits some slack, OK?)Father, Son Paratroopers Serve in Afghanistan -
StoryHomeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah HappeningsDoctors call Padilla unfit for terrorism trialSomali leader to hold reconciliation conferenceU.S. to exempt kids from passport rulesOther Military NewsArmy struggles to shorten Guard toursMilitary.com Podcast:
Inside Walter Reed HospitalReligion of Peace??Egyptian Court Sentences Blogger Charged With Insulting Islam to 4 Years in PrisonReport: Iran Plans Women-Only IslandWorldwide WackosIran Fails to Meet Deadline on Nukes (Is ANYONE surprised by this??)North Korea accuses United States of hostility, liesCheney raises concerns about China, NKorea deal -
VideoPolitics / GovernmentPelosi Calls Bush to Complain of Cheney's Comments on Democrats' Iraq Strategy (Oh, boo flippin' hoo, Nancy)Report: Dems Drafting Bill to Limit Iraq Effort (But you're not doing something Al Qaeda's going to be happy about...)Ind. Candidate in Hot Water Over CommentsCheney issues rallying call not to abandon IraqClinton's Iraq vote haunts her on campaign trail -
VideoProdi aims to stay on after winning allies' backing -
VideoBush touts energy plan in North CarolinaImmigration / Border Control
Credit for Illegals? Bank On It! (Bank of 'America,' my eye)In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and OrderScores Gets Stripped of Liquor License Over Prostitution ArrestsCops: Principal Bought Crack in School OfficeMan charged over string of British letter bombsU.N. NewsSouth Korean gets five years in oil-for-food caseMedia in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the WebSecond Iraq 'Mystery Weapon' More 'Nefarious' Than the FirstCouple's Nasty 'Breakup' a Hit on YouTubeScience / Medicine / TechnologyHypersonic Rocket Would Take You From London to New York in Less Than Two HoursExperts doubt Clovis people were first in AmericasMedieval Muslims made stunning math breakthroughU.S., Russian astronauts go on spacewalkStudies: Circumcision reduces HIV riskMother NatureKiller Chimps Make Spears, Hunt BushbabiesIndonesia eyes cement balls to stop mudOdditiesAsh Wednesday Mass Interrupted by Porno Recordings (What's with the porn stories lately??)Thief gets F in planning and drivingTwo clowns shot dead at circusN.Y. cops find stomach-churning squalorOther News of NoteDad Outraged Over 'Anti-Muslim' TextFox NewsRest in Peace -
Anna Nicole judge gives custody of body to babyVIDEO:
Key Players React to Anna Nicole RulingNo Dough, No 'Cotton Eye Joe'PHOTO ESSAY: Indonesia Ferry Blaze -
STORYFormer NBA Star Dennis Johnson Dead at 52Britney Spears Back in Rehab; Spears' Dad Talks to FOX (It's like the Rehab hokey pokey - you put the poptart in, you take the poptart out...)Rooting for the Underdog on 'American Idol'Google Takes On Microsoft With Subscription-Based Office SuiteReuters: Top NewsMicrosoft hit with $1.52 billion damagesU.S. airlines pledge to review service plansMassachusetts spurs health-care debateKids shovel down more calories watching TVChina praised by researchers for its AIDS effortsDeGeneres brings gentler tone to Oscars as host -
VideoAustralia extends record run, others pauseSanyo stock tumblesDow down as oil nears $61Oil jumps to $61 on drop in inventoriesChip stocks up on Analog DevicesPetrodollar flows into dollar to ebbStock bulls rage globallyAustralia's Coles up for sale, shares surgeSiemens deal for UGS gets U.S. antitrust approvalH&R Block posts Q3 loss on mortgage woesJudge refuses harsh sentence for ex-HealthSouth CFOChrysler: Sale decision may take monthsAP World NewsSabres, Senators touch off wild brawlTiger easily advances at Match Play'Grey's Anatomy' fans could see doubleToll Brothers 1Q profit falls 67 percentDow down 52, Nasdaq up 7 on Iran worriesRoger Clemens no closer to decisionJobless claims fall last week to 332,000Heat's Dwayne Wade dislocates shoulderSteroid investigators will go to campsMilitary.comFirst Step in GI Bill ReformDT:
Please . . . Like Us, Euro-peopleLearn to Use Your GI BillWeb's Best Military Equipment GuideWorld's Largest Veteran Job BoardCENTCOM: Press ReleasesIA AND CF DETAIN IRAQI POLICE OFFICIAL IN BAQUBAHIA CAPTURES SUSPECTED WEAPONS TRAFFICKER IN BAGHDADAIRPOWER SUMMARY FOR FEB. 21USJFCOMUSJFCOM partners with ACT to sponsor NATO urban workshop -
podcastUSJFCOM partners with ACT to sponsor NATO urban workshop -
podcastJPADS continues to improve the way it delivers aerial drops to the warfighter -
podcastDefenseLinkWar on TerrorSecurity Operations Continue -
StoryNo Serious Injuries in CrashOfficials ID Casualties from CrashSoldier, Marine Killed in IraqMissile Defenses Would Shield Against Iran -
StoryCheney Praises Troop Efforts in Guam -
StoryWalter Reed Puts ‘Full-Court Press’ on Repairs -
StoryArmy Upgrades Its Electronic Warfare Training -
StoryDiversity, Equality Programs Strengthen Military -
StoryMore Headline NewsDoD Salutes African-American ServicemembersCheney Thanks Japan for Support, Lauds TroopsChairman Answers Students' Tough QuestionsNation Safer Now Than Before 9/11 AttacksMilitary NewsComplex Iraq Situation Requires PatienceGeneral Discusses Use of Chlorine BombsBehavioral Health Specialists Ease Troops’ MindsGuard Soldier Earns Distinguished Service CrossAmerica Supports YouVets Get Chance to Make Dough -
Story‘Quad-A’ Helps FamiliesBusinesses Aim to Hire VetsFoundation Helps WoundedTransformationIraqi Riverine Assault Company Brings New Strategy to River -
StoryTraining Becomes More RealisticPropane Plant Fuels AlternativesNew Program Encourages SavingsU.S., Peruvian Air Forces TrainFace of DefenseFather, Son Serve in Afghanistan -
StorySoldier Returns to Defend TitleVolunteer Leads With PassionSoldier Survives Sniper's BulletDefendAmericaNEWS UPDATESSecurity Operations Continue; Baqubah Police Official Detained -
StoryFor Top News Visit DefenseLinkON THE GROUNDU.S. Army Instructor Proud of Iraqi Trainees -
StoryTroops Employ Concrete Solution in Baghdad -
Story'Black Falcons' Put Boots on the Ground -
StoryIN DJIBOUTI U.S. Marines, Sailors Help Clean Up Local SchoolIN IRAQ'Ironhorse' Soldiers Learn to Airlift EquipmentParatroopers Seek to Build Ties with LeadersNew Pump Station Improves Quality of LifeIN KUWAIT Deployed Servicemembers Become U.S. CitizensIN AFGHANISTAN Desert Hawk Takes Command of Aviation OpsSix Villages in Kandahar Get New Water WellsBACKGROUNDIRAQRenewal In IraqIraq: Security, StabilityFact Sheet: Progress and Work AheadReport: Strategy for Victory in Iraq Iraq Daily UpdateThis Week in Iraq Multinational Force IraqState Dept. Weekly Iraq Report 'Boots on the Ground' Audio ArchiveWeekly Reconstruction Report (PDF) Iraq ReconstructionMapsAFGHANISTANAfghanistan UpdateMapsWAR ON TERRORISMFact Sheet: Budget RequestFact Sheet: Terror Plots DisruptedWaging and Winning the War on TerrorTerrorism TimelineTerrorism Knowledge BaseWeatherAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGermanyAnsbach Aschaffenburg Berlin Berlin-Tempelhof Berlin/Schonefeld BremerhavenDarmstadt Frankfurt Frankfurt/Main Freiburg/Breisgau GarmischGarmisch-Partenkirchen Geilenkirchen Gelnhausen Giessen KitzingenHanau Am Main Heidelberg Mainz Mannheim Nurnberg Stuttgart TrierWiesbaden WurzburgGitmoGuamAgana Agana Heights Agat Andersen AFB Asan BarrigadaIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al KutAn Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfJapanKadena Air Base Okinawa Tokyo YokohamaPhilippinesBaler Radar Site Catanduanes Radar Site ManilaSouth KoreaCheju Upper/Radar Chonju Chunchon Inch'on Kunsan Masan Mokp'oOsan Pusan Seoul Suwon Taegu Taejon Tonghae Radar Site Ulsan YosuToday in History
0303 - Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
1455 - Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, the Bible (estimated date)
1574 - France begins 5th Holy War against Huguenots
1660 - Charles XI becomes King of Sweden
1668 - Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued
1689 - Dutch prince William III proclaimed King of England
1778 - Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge
1792 - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
1813 - 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham MA
1820 - Cato Street conspiracy uncovered
1822 - Boston is incorporated as a city
1836 - Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
1846 - Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
1847 - Battle of Buena Vista, México - Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
1852 -
H.M.S. Birkenhead sinks off South Africa, killing 420 troops
1854 - Great Britain & Orange Free State sign Convention of Bloemfontein
1861 - By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US; Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns; President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, DC to take office
1869 - Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
1870 - Mississippi is re-admitted to US
1874 - Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
1883 - Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
1886 - Aluminum manufacturing process developed; "London Times" publishes world's 1st classified ad
1887 - Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco; French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
1895 - William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
1896 - Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
1898 - In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus
1900 - Steamer
Rio de Janeiro sinks in San Francisco Bay; Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1903 - Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
1904 - Control of Panamá Canal Zone acquired by US for $10 million
1905 - Rotary Club International established by 4 men in Chicago
1909 - Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
1915 - Germany sinks US ships
Carib &
Evelyn, torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin; Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
1916 - Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin; French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
1917 - February revolution begins in Russia
1919 - Benito Mussolini founds the Facist party of Italy
1921 - 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York NY from San Francisco CA
1923 - Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
1927 - President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC predecessor)
1934 - Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
1936 - 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake NY
1940 - Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
1943 - General-Major Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
1945 -
US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima; 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London; Canadian troops occupy Kalkar; Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr
1947 - General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170 million in aid for European Jews
1954 - Syrian army drives out President Adib el-Shishakli
1955 - Edgar Faure forms French government
1956 - 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow; Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
1958 - 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
1958 - Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina
1966 - Aldo Moro forms Italian government; Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government
1966 - Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
1967 - 25th amendment (Presidential succession) declared ratified
1967 -
US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War1969 - Nayif Hawatimah forms Democratic People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
1970 - Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
1971 -
Lieutenant Calley confesses & implicates Captain Medina in the My Lai investigation1979 -
Frank Peterson, Jr., named 1st Black General in Marine Corps1980 - Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics; Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill; 13th Winter Olympics games close at Lake Placid, NY
1981 - Spanish coup under Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina fails
1985 - US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General
1987 - Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
1988 - 15th Winter Olympics games opens in Calgary, Alberta
1991 -
US insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST; Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested
1992 - 16th Winter Olympics games close in Albertville, France
1995 - Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi
1997 -
Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building killing 1; NBC TV shows "Schindler's List", completely uncensored, 65 million watch; Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
1998 - Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand; Tornadoes in Florida kill at least 31
Birthdays1417 - Paul II (Pietro Barbo), Pope (1464-71)
1614 - Jacob Colijn(s) Dutch coat of arms painter
1633 - Samuel Pepys, English navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs)
1776 - John Walter II, chief proprietor (The London Times, 1812-47)
1818 - Major General Jeremy F. Gilmer, General/Chief Engineer, Confederate War Department
1824 - Lewis Cass Hunt, Union Brigadier General
1834 - Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunisia
1838 - Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Confederate Brigadier General
1859 - Theodor Batthyányi, Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary
1869 - Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Social-Democrat)
1874 - Konstantin Päts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)
1875 - Jozef E. Stokvis journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP)
1883 - Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind)
1886 - Ventura García Calderón Peruvian diplomat/author
1908 - Sir William McMahon, PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)
1911 - G. Mennen Williams, Sup Court Justice/(Governor-MI)
1925 - Louis Stokes (Representative-OH)
1928 - Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A)
1942 - Beau Boulter (Representative-TX)
1944 - James Cousins, British MP
1949 - Marc Garneau, PhD/astronaut (STS 13, 77); Maureen Hicks, British MP
1960 - Gloria von Thurm un Taxis Munich, German Federal Republic, Princess
Passings 0155 - Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John, arrested & burned at stake
1447 - Eugene IV (Gabriele Condulmer), Italian Pope (1431-47)
1607 - Herman Herbertsz vicar, dies at about 60
1660 - Charles X Gustaaf, King of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37
1718 - François Fagel, Dutch field marshal/mayor of Nimegen, dies at 63
1766 - Stanislaw Leszcynski, Duke of Lutherans/king of Poland
1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th US President (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80
1915 - Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in South Carolina
1922 - Henri Landru executed for having 11 wives, in France
1924 - Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President (1913-21)
1945 - Aubrey Cousins, Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle
1969 - Abd al-Aziz Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud King Saudia, dies at 67
1990 - Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53;
James Gavin, Commandant US 82nd Airborn Division (Normandy), dies at 82; Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62
1995 - James Herriot Scot author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78; Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes dies at 79
1999 -
Carlos Hathcock, legendary MarineReported Missing in Action1968
Donald, Myron L.,
USAF (NY); F4D shot down (w/Gutterson), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Lt. Colonel - alive and well as of 1998
Gutterson, Laird,
USAF (CA); F4D shot down (w/Donald), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998
**Missions: Vietnam - 35 in C-130 prior to F-4D, WWII - Flight Officer B-25 qualified, Korea - 60 missions F-51, F-86 qualified**Hubler, George L.,
USMC (UT); F8E shot down
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