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Military news…..

California veteran who volunteered in Ukraine, survived rocket attack: ‘I would do it again’It was just before midnight on a frigid February evening in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine when a 29-year-old Marine veteran from Garden Grove, Calif., was struck by an enemy Russian rocket while inside a Humvee on the front lines.

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Pentagon to spend up to $7.2 billion on combat-proven Javelin anti-tank missiles

The U.S. military plans to buy up to $7.2 billion worth of Javelin missiles for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and international customers over the next three years, under a contract announced Thursday.

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Ukraine to receive another $300M in weapons, ammunition and equipment in new US aid

The equipment and weapons are being given through the presidential drawdown authority, which means it will come directly from Pentagon stocks and sent quickly on an emergency basis.

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In a first, female soldier becomes top enlisted leader at Army Special Operations CommandCommand Sgt. Maj. JoAnn Naumann stepped into the job at a ceremony Monday at Fort Bragg, N.C.

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1,500 additional troops to deploy to border with Mexico as migrant surge expected next week

The troops will join about 2,400 National Guard members authorized to serve at the border with U.S. Customs and Border Protection as part of a support mission that began in 2018.

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I had some interesting times while in basic training. I will share two of them.

  1. During the time there we did different types of training. One was pretty frightening. We spent one day throwing live grenades. I was in a line of guys taking their turn of be coached to throw. I was next in line to do just that. I could hear the instructor say, “Pull the pin wait five seconds and then throw it.” He handed the guy the grenade and the guy pulled the pin. He pulled his arm back and was ready to throw. He tried to throw but the grenade slipped out of his hand and landed right next to him. The instructor grabbed the grenade and tossed sit. It blew up in mid air.

It was my turn, and I listened to the instructor very carefully. I pulled the pin and throw the grenade right on time and it didn’t explode until it hit the ground. It was the guys mistake in front of me that caused me to fine tuned my senses.

2. We had just finished our firing range time and it was time to march back to the barracks. our drill sergeant had to go to a meeting so he had a Warrant officer march us back. Well he had no idea how to give commands and of us noticed it right away.

The platoon decided to move only according to protocol. He said to form up. We accepted that, and then he said turn right, and we didn’t move. You could see that he was getting frustrated. He asked a nearby NCO what he was supposed to say, and then he said, “Right face!” We turned right.

He then tried to get us going. He said, “Start walking.” We didn’t move. he asked the same NCO what he should say, and then he said, “Forward march.”

We started marching, and we moved along pretty good for a while. The the officer saw that there was a boat ramp up ahead, and he said, “Let’s stop.” We kept marching. He shouted again, but we just kept marching.

The front to d platoon was starting go into the water. The officer yelled, “Stop!” We kept going. Now most the the platoon was in the water. An NCO saw what was going on and ran over to yell, “Platoon halt.” We stopped, but everyone was wet, and we laughing our heads off.

The next morning at our daily briefing, The Captain came and chewed us out for what we had done. BUT you could see him trying to hold back the laughter as he went back inside.

We were told the Capitan apologized to the officer.

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I met a marine yesterday while shopping at Cost Co. He was one hell of a guy. We quickly became friends, and I asked him if I could have his email to keep in touch. He agreed, and I told him I was writing a book on the military and could I interview him. He said yes.

Then he gave me a sneak peak of what happened to him. He was wounded three separate times. Two times by bayonets. One of the bayonet times the bayonet went through both legs. He was also wounded by shrapnel. He said there was a lot of close up fighting going on. He was in Vietnam from 1965-1969. A long haul.

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Medal of Honor Recipient was Wounded, but helped other wounded Soldiers, and Called in an Air Strike.

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Military news…

Navy blocks Iranian effort to capture unmanned drone in Persian Gulf
The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet says Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized and later let go of a U.S. sea drone in the Persian Gulf.

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One year later, Austin acknowledges lasting questions over Afghanistan war’s end 

One year after the last American troops left Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledged the questions some veterans still face about the chaotic evacuation and a failed war. 

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Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. The last Soviet leader was 91.

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Police: Heroic Safeway employee and Army veteran confronted gunman in store

A Safeway employee who previously served in the U.S. Army for two decades attacked a gunman in the produce section of the Bend, Oregon, supermarket, possibly preventing more casualties from a shooting that left the employee and one other person dead.

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Taiwan fires warning shots at Chinese drone after vowing to defend its airspace

Taiwanese soldiers fired warning shots at a Chinese drone this week as Taiwan’s president announced the military would take “necessary and powerful countermeasures” to protect the island’s airspace.

Japan’s record-high defense budget request of $40.4 billion still lags its G-7 peers

Japan’s Defense Ministry unveiled a record-high spending request for the next fiscal year that is likely to increase further before it’s approved.

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Navy’s return to frigates begins with construction start of $1.3 billion Constellation
The Navy wants to add a total of 20 frigates, which are planned for use in blue water and along the coasts, and which have more armor and firepower than the much-maligned littoral combat ships.

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Here is a other Medal of Honor recipient. I will share one on every post until you have them all:

Kyle J. White

Born: March 27, 1987, Renton Washington Service Branch: U.S. Army

Medal of Honor action date and Place: Nov. 9, 2007, Nuristan province, Afghanistan

Citation:

Returning to their outpost, Spc. White and his comrades were ambushed by enemy forces. Despite having grenade embedded in his face, he moved into and exposed area to provide medical help to a wounded soldier, then moved to provide comfort and aid to a Marine as he succumbed to his wounds. He gave to the previous soldier. who had been wounded again., and provided directions for an airstrike via radio, allow the aircraft to rescue him and his fellow soldiers.

Presentation: May 13, 2014, the White House, by resident Barack Obama.

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Mariupol teeters as Ukrainians defy surrender-or-die demand

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Russian ship sinks after battling a fire that Ukrainian forces claim was caused by their missile attack
A Russian cruiser that Ukrainian forces claim they hit with two missiles has sunk, the Russian Defense Ministry reported Thursday.

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DOD identifies remains of WWII pilot and Medal of Honor recipient Addison Baker

On April 8, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of Lt. Col. Addison Baker, a posthumous Medal of Honor recipient from World War II.

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North Korea tests ‘tactical guided’ weapons, condemns US-South Korean drills
The initial estimates peg the projectiles as more limited in range than a launch March 24 of an intercontinental ballistic missile that was theoretically capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.  North Korea has conducted at least 11 other rounds of missile tests so far this year.

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Mariupol teeters as Ukrainians defy surrender-or-die demand

If Mariupol is captured, Russian forces there are expected to join an all-out offensive in the coming days for control of the Donbas, the eastern industrial region that the Kremlin is bent on taking after failing in its bid to seize Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.

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In Lviv, displaced artists create anti-war, anti-Russian work

Ukrainians feel a need to tell the world — and especially Russians — what has happened here. The country’s contemporary artists find themselves at the forefront of that storytelling mission.

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US troops to train Ukrainian forces on howitzers in coming days
The training, which will occur outside Ukraine, will teach Ukrainian forces to operate the 155mm howitzers. They will then return to the fight and train other Ukrainians to use the American cannons, the official said.

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Zelenskky: Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine has begun

Russia launched its long-feared, full-scale offensive to take control of Ukraine’s east on Monday, attacking along a broad front over 300 miles long, Ukrainian officials said in what marked the opening of a new and potentially climactic phase of the war.

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Two short stories about my own Uncles who fought in WWII. They are my heroes.

My Uncles in WWII

My Uncle Dwight Wood was a WWII veteran. He had a hard time sharing his time in the military, so I wasn’t able to interview him directly, but I did get some idea of what he went through to help defend our country.

Uncle Dwight was the driver of a tank during the war. One day he was in the tank with two other soldiers. A Japanese soldier climbed onto the top of the tank and threw a grenade down into the tank where they were. The grenade instantly killed one of the men right next to my uncle, and my uncle and the other men were wounded with fragments from the grenade. My uncle was given the Purple Heart, and to his death he would not talk too much about his time in the military. The event of seeing his buddy killed right before his eyes was too overwhelming, and it had haunted him until his death. They didn’t even know what PTSD was back in WWII. It was called, “Shell Shock,” back then.  This is a classic case that shows that thousands of WWII veterans surely lived with PTSD all of their lives. 

Another person who was a WWII veteran was my Uncle Claude.  He was a Seabee. The Seabees were an extremely important part of the military. They built bridges, forged roads through the brush. They built sleeping quarters for the troops. It hard to say how many lives were affected by their heroics, but they were very much admired by the rest of the troops.  I never got to ask him any question about his time.

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