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Americans under Major Henry Lee take the British garrison at Paulus Hook, New Jersey.
1812: The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution defeats the British frigate Guerri?re in a furious engagement off the coast of Nova Scotia. Witnesses claimed that the British shot merely bounced off the Constitutions sides, as if the ship were made of iron rather than wood leading to her nickname of "Old Ironsides". 1914: The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) lands in France. 1942: A raid on Dieppe, France by British and Canadian commandos is repulsed by the German Army. 1944: In an effort to prevent a communist uprising in Paris, Charles de Gualle begins attacking German forces all around the city. 1950: The United Nations accepted offers of troops from Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, Thailand and the Philippines. 1950: South Korean forces recaptured Pohang and Kigye. 1953: The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the United States government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran. 1965: U.S. forces destroy a Viet Cong stronghold near Van Tuong, in South Vietnam. 1970: Cambodia and the U.S. sign a military aid agreement worth $40 million for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971. |
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Andy
Much has been said and asked about our 'exit strategy' from Iraq, when the question never arose concerning our exit strategy from either Germany or Japan after WWII. The economic benefits to host nations should be a major consideration in the establishment of our bases overseas, wherever they are.
Why should we continue to support countries that are constantly contrary to our official policies: and then not only refuse to support us with military help, but speak out and condemn us when we decide to go at it alone?
I recently had the pleasure of going to an Army post in southern Georgia, Fort Stewart and went into a "Barracks" while there. It was hard for me to believe that there was only two troops in the individual room in that barracks and the room was equiped with a fully operational kitchen, HDTV wiith Direct TV. Whatever happened to the barracks that we were in fifty years ago?
Close them? No.
Make a soldier be a soldier and not an executive with all of the benifits attached.
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