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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. -- Otto Von Bismarck |
17th Psychological Operations Battalion(132 total words in this text)(3165 Reads)  Constituted 30 December 1954 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 306th Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet Battalion Activated 1 February 1955 at San Pedro, California Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 306th Psychological Warfare Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1965 as the 306th Psychological Operations Battalion Location changed 30 November 1982 to Los Alamitos, California Inactivated 17 September 1990 at Los Alamitos, California Redesignated 16 June 1996 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 17th Psychological Operations Battalion, and activated at Joliet, Illinois (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) 17th Psychological Operations Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit None Decorations None |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
