Quote of the Day
“Nothing can be more hurtful to the service,
than the neglect of discipline;
for that discipline, more than numbers,
gives one army the superiority over another.”
-- George Washington
News of Note
Operation Iraqi FreedomMayor of Baghdad Shi'ite bastion wounded by gunmenCongress votes on Iraq war deadlines -
VideoPetraeus Requests More Troops for IraqMilitary.com Poll:
Is Iraq a "Civil War"?Insurgents Target Strykers in IraqMayor of Baghdad Shi'ite bastion wounded by gunmenHomeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah HappeningsExperts: Mohammed's Arrest Slowed Al Qaeda Officials: Mohammed exaggerated claims (Doesn't surprise me...I mean, he's a scumbag, and he was no doubt involved in a lot of stuff, but sheesh! - I was waiting for the guy to claim he'd invented the question mark - or that he was the father of Anna Nicole's baby!)Nigerian Militants Free Last Foreign HostageIsrael army to investigate "human shield" chargesImpoverished Palestinians sell wedding goldIsrael rejects Palestinian unity gov'tBomb kills 7 on Mogadishu outskirts: policeExperts: Mohammed's Arrest Slowed Al Qaeda Nigerian Militants Free Last Foreign HostageIsrael rejects Palestinian unity gov'tTroops on TrialMarine:
Haditha was JustifiedSupporting Our HeroesMilitary.com Op-ed:
USO on Supporting TroopsOther Military NewsUK coroner says "friendly fire" death was unlawfulBrownback supports Pace's remark on gaysCruise ship passenger rescued after jumpReligion of Peace??Malaysia leader steps up drive for moderate IslamWorldwide WackosOfficial: Fidel Castro Fit to Run in '08 Ahmadinejad says Iran will stick to atomic work -
VideoIranian Prez Asks to Address Security CouncilNew sanctions said unlikely to hurt IranOfficial says Castro fit to run in 2008U.S. seeks to bury rift before North Korea talksEnvoy: Dispute over N. Korean funds overPolitics / GovernmentE-Mails Show Rove's Role in Firings Click Here to Read the E-Mails (FindLaw.com)Redirect: Senator Obama Says John Edwards Is 'Kind of Cute'Plame Set to Testify in CIA Leak HearingsSen. Clinton calls for subprime mortgage actionIn the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and OrderMinnesota Teen Horrified to Receive Her Dog's Head as Gift on Doorstep (This is just beyond reprehensible...)Florida Teen's Stomach Ache Turns Out to Be Gunshot WoundFormer Duke Lacrosse Coach Breaks His Silence About Player Rape AllegationsOhio 13-Year-Old Charged With 128 Felonies Colorado Granny Charged With Sexually Assaulting Kids While Man Watched Over InternetCops Charge Indiana Dad With Attempted Murder for Stabbing 11-Month-Old, Throwing Him Out WindowMan Convicted of Killing Cellmate Shown on Video Taunting Guards With EntrailsBody Found is Missing 6-Year-Old Georgia BoyHuge Reservoir of Frozen Water Found on MarsWitness Emerges in NYC Groom ShootingJailers Find Drug-Filled Bible in Inmate MailPolice seek motive in NYC shootoutFBI raids N.American HQ of Japan airlineAdventures in Political CorrectnessSchool Changes Name of Play to 'Three Little Puppies' to Avoid Offending MuslimsMedia and the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the WebComedian Sinbad Fights Back Over Internet Death RumorScience / Medicine / TechnologyKiss Mouth-to-Mouth GoodbyeHuge Ice Sheet Found on MarsDNA "glitches" tied to autism, researchers sayHigh blood sugar tied to increased cancer riskLaunch pad damage delays military spacecraftModern technology reveals mummy's pastMother NatureJetBlue Cancels 215 Flights Ahead of East Coast StormEast Coast Braces for Late Winter Blast2006-2007 Warmest Winter on RecordNew Species of Leopard Identified on BorneoOdditiesFinally, something good about being old.. -
VideoMeet the $1,000 pizza.. VideoOther News of NotePakistani panel orders restrictions lifted on judgeDefiant Tsvangirai leaves Zimbabwe hospital -
VideoIndonesia may close airlines after crashesIndia scours forests to "avenge" Maoist killingsFox NewsNYC Firefighters in St. Pat's Parade RowNCAA Tourney Means More Office Pools -
PICSPop Tarts: Britney Spears Finds Love in RehabNo Meeting for Helen Mirren and the Real QueenReuters: Top NewsAs subprime crisis deepens, some fight back -
VideoMortgage meltdown sinks more than those on edgeBoston's gritty Irish enclave goes upmarketNintendo Wii top-selling game consoleBlu-ray aims to oust DVDs within three years -
VideoCorruption runs deep in Nigerian politicsFearful homecoming as Sri Lanka resettles refugeesJolie hugged and played with adopted son -
VideoCourt: "Oscar" may be generic term in ItalianDollar pares losses after core CPI in lineStock futures trim declines on core CPIAccredited shares jumpGlobal stocks and dollar fall on U.S. economic concernsFremont General gets more financingNo-down payment loans evaporatingSubprime crisis could pack political punchCrucial summer for RV industryConsumer prices rise on energy cost bounceSubprime lender Accredited in deal to sell loansBristol-Myers pulls $25 bln assets out of IrelandNissan's Ghosn drops U.S. duties amid earnings slumpAirbus workers put down tools, march to fight job cutsRenault nurtures engineering center after suicidesAP World NewsConsumer inflation, industrial output upDow, Nasdaq move toward higher openingBurned rail trestle halts Amtrak serviceDuke is done after first game of NCAAsFormer baseball commissioner Kuhn diesDelp suicide note: 'I am a lonely soul'Martin named king of Puerto Rican paradeOne and done for Knight as BC winsCowell says he's bigger than SpringsteenMilitary.comDT:
Gucci Commando GearBlog:
SpouseBuzz on ExhaustionAdvisors:
Employers Getting Personal?Ace the ASVABKit Up! Wants You!Warfighters:
Tell us about your gear.USJFCOMUSJFCOM commander speaks before House Armed Services CommitteeNATO military committee visits USJFCOMMore about USJFCOM and Allied Command TransformationJIOC-X continues to improve intelligence support for joint warfighter -
podcastDefenseLinkReport Discusses Complexity of Iraqi Struggles -
StoryMeasuring Stability and Security in Iraq (pdf)New Movie Gives Eyewitness Accounts of War -
StoryJoint Forces Command Effects Transformation -
StoryProgram Targets Terrorism in North Africa -
StoryAcquisitions Chief Outlines Streamlined Processes -
StoryTranscript: Kreig Conducts Pentagon Press BriefingMore Headline NewsAl Qaeda Operative Admits to Role in 9/11 AttacksGeneral Notes Downturn in Violence in IraqTroops Reach Out to America via YouTubeAberdeen Test Center Focuses on WarfightersMilitary NewsSailors, Marines Honor Iwo Jima Veterans Military Leaders Discuss Readiness on Capitol HillArmy Guard Leader Visits Troops in AfghanistanWar on TerrorTroops Support Afghan Forces -
StoryCoalition Forces Kill TerroristsMarine, Soldier Killed in IraqProgram Focuses on TrainingAmerica Supports YouTop Enlisted Gets Care Package -
StoryPentagon Honors GroupsMom Continues 'Have a Heart'WWE Honors Wounded TroopsTransformationCommand Welcomes C-130J -
StoryIdea Encourages RecyclingAir Force Notes 50th LaunchFuture Bright for Space AssetsFace of DefenseFather, Son Reunite in Iraq -
StoryCouple Serves Together in IraqBrothers Reunite in KuwaitDefendAmericaNEWS UPDATES
Troops Support Afghan Forces -
StoryON THE GROUNDIraqi Transportation Unit Grows With Confidence -
StoryNew Aid Station Increases Quality Care -
StoryIraqi-bound Equipment a Strategic Mission -
StoryParatroopers Attend Cultural Awareness Class -
StoryIN IRAQIraqis Take the Lead in Joint Cordon, SearchMaintenance Rids Aircraft of 'Battle Damage'U.S., Iraqi Leaders Open Teachers' InstituteMan's Best Friends Search Iraq CountrysideIN ETHOPIA U.S. Army Engineers Visit Remote School ProjectBACKGROUNDIRAQRenewal 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 ReconstructionMapsAFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan 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 YokohamaToday in History1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 - Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
1345 - Holy spirit glides above fire; "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
1527 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
1621 - Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth, MA
1641 - General court declares Rhode Island a democracy & adopts new constitution
1660 - English Long Parliament disbands
1690 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 - Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
1792 - Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera
1802 -
Law signed to establish US Military Academy (West Point, NY);
US Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)1815 - Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1830 - London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) forms
1834 -
HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
1836 - Texas approves a constitution
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union; Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1862 - Battle at Pound Gap, KY: Confederates separate battles
1865 - Battle of Averasboro, NC (1,500 casualities)
1869 - Hiram R. Revels makes the 1st official speech by a Black in the Senate
1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
1900 - Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
1912 - Mrs. William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington, DC
1915 - British battle cruisers
Inflexible &
Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle; Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 - US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty
1922 - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1930 -
USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
1933 - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia; Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1941 - Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota, killing 60
1943 - Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed & sinks
1944 - Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
1945 - US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
1947 - Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
1955 - President Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1959 - Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket;
US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 1671966 - Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); Robert F. Kennedy announces Presidential campaign
1969 - Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
1972 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono are served with deportation papers
1975 - US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
1976 - British premier Harold Wilson resigns
1977 - US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
1978 - Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 68.7 million gallons of oil off French coast; Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed; Soyuz 26 returns to Earth; US Senate accepts Panamá Canal treaty
1984 -
Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut; South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
1985 -
Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut 1988 -
Federal grand jury indicts Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North & Navy Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair; North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed; US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
1994 - Moravcik forms Slovakia government; Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 - Mississippi House of Representatives ratifies 13th Amendement-formally abolishes slavery
Birthdays
1739 - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence, Constitution)
1750 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, 1st modern woman astronomer
1751 - James Madison, 4th US President (1809-17)
1776 - Johan G. Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs
1787 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1802 - George Archibald McCall, Union Brigadier General
1812 - Henry Dwight Terry, Union Brigadier General
1822 - John Pope, Union Major General
1832 - Charles Camp Doolittle, Union Brevet Major General
1836 - Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
1839 - René François Armand Sully, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
1849 - Reverend James E. Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
1856 - E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
1878 - Clemens A. Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-Nazi; Reza Sjah Pahlawi [Reza Chan], Shah of Iran
1903 - Mike Mansfield (Senator-MT) majority whip
1910 - Martijn Lijnema, Boer/resistance fighter (WWII)
1912 - Patricia Nixon [Thelma Catherine], First Lady (1969-74)
1916 - Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers)
1926 - Jerry Lewis [Joseph Levitch], entertainer/fund raiser (MDA)
1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Senator-NY, 1977-2001); Vladimir M. Komarov, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)
1932 - Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Colonel USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, US Supreme Court Justice
1940 - Jan P. Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA); Jan Schaefer, Dutch Assistant Secretary of State (PvdA)
1942 - Chuck Woolery, TV game show host (Love Connection)
1959 - Michael J. Bloomfield, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 86)
1963 - Phung Vuong, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
Passings0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero, Emperor of Rome (14-37), dies at 77
1536 - Ibrahim Pasha, Grand-Visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about 45
1738 - Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72
1838 - Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer & navigation expert, dies at 64
1841 - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
1843 - Anton R. Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65
1914 - Sir John Murray, piloted
HMS Challenger to Christmas Island
1930 - Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at 60
1935 - John J.R. Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58
1937 - J. Austen Chamberlain English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
1946 - Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61
1959 - John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111
1971 - Thomas E. Dewey, US Presidential candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68
1978 - Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists
1985 - B.V.A. Röling Dutch lawyer (WWII Tokyo trials), dies at 78
1991 - 7 members of Reba McIntire's band killed in a plane crash; Jan H. van Roijen Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85
1992 - Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies
1993 - Djilalli Lyabès, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered; Mohammed Hussein Nagdi Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered
Reported Missing in Action1962 Nau, George,
Civilian - Flying Tigers Airline (CA); disappeared on a Lockheed Super Constellation with 93 US Army personnel and 3 ARVN Rangers beween Guam and the Philippines.
1966Underwood, Paul Gerard,
USAF (NY); F105D shot down - remains returned - ID'd February, 1998
1968
Erickson, David Wayne,
USMC (MN); presumed Killed (w/Krausman)
Krausman, Edward L.,
USMC (CA); presumed Killed (w/Erickson)
1969
The following US Army personnel reported MIA when their U21A disappeared on approach to a landing in Hue / Phu Bai:Barnes, Charles R. (PA); co-pilot
Batt, Michael L. (OH); passenger
Bobe, Raymond E. (AL); passenger
Foster, Marvin L. (TX); passenger
Smith, David R. (OH); pilot
1971Scrivener, Stephen Russell,
USAF (FL); O2A shot down (w/Seeley)
Seeley, Douglas Milton,
USAF (OH); O2A shot down (w/Scrivener)
Labels: Headlines, History
Gen. John P. Abizaid (right) inspects the troops for a final time during the Change of Command ceremony at MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Fla., as Col. Shawn Mateer, ceremony commander of troops, and incoming commander Adm. William J. Fallon look on. Photo by Spc. Patrick A Ziegler.
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