5 MAY 1942 NAVAJO CODE TALKERS On the night of 26 October 1918 two WWI companies of the Army’s 142nd Infantry became trapped near Chufilly, France. To affect their withdrawal in the face of German radio code breaking prowess, the Army Read More
13-26 MARCH 1997 OPERATION “SILVER WAKE” Against the backdrop of Saddam Hussein’s continued recalcitrance in Iraq, and the discord in Bosnia-Herzagovinia, the Adriatic coastal nation of Albania experienced a financial collapse in early 1997 that brought anarchy to that nation. On Read More
20 MARCH 1779 “THE FEW, THE PROUD” “The Few, the Proud, the Marines” has been an iconic slogan of the US Marine Corps since it was introduced in 1976 by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency during a critical post-Vietnam recruiting Read More