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To seduce the enemy?s soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter. -- Flavius Vegetius Renatus |
450th Civil Affairs Battalion(171 total words in this text)(3134 Reads)  Activated 13 April 1951 at Fort Myer, Virginia (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 20 August 1956 as the 450th Civil Affairs and Military Government Company Redesignated 1 December 1959 as the 450th Civil Affairs Company Location changed 20 May 1964 to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland; changed 31 January 1968 to Riverdale, Maryland Detachment ordered into active military service 11 December 1990 at Riverdale, Maryland; remainder of company ordered into active military service 27 December 1990 at Riverdale, Maryland Company released from active military service 23 April 1991 and reverted to reserve status Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1992 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 450th Civil Affairs Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) 450th Civil Affairs Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit Southwest Asia: Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations None |
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1509:
At the Battle of Agnadello, the French defeat the Venitians in Northern Italy.
1864: Union and Confederate troops clash at Resaca, Georgia. This was one of the first engagements in a summer-long campaign by Union General William T. Sherman to capture the Confederate city of Atlanta. 1940: Holland surrenders to Germany. 1942: The British Army, in retreat from Burma, reach India. 1943: U.S. and Great Britain chiefs of staff, meeting in Washington, D.C., approve and plot out Operation Pointblank, a joint bombing offensive to be mounted from British airbases. 1955: The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. 1969: Three companies of the 101st Airborne Division fail to push North Vietnamese forces off Hill 937 in South Vietnam. 1969: In his first full-length report to the American people concerning the Vietnam War, President Nixon responds to the 10-point plan offered by the National Liberation Front at the 16th plenary session of the Paris talks on May 8. 1970: Allied military officials announce that 863 South Vietnamese were killed from May 3 to 9. This was the second highest weekly death toll of the war to date for the South Vietnamese forces. |
