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Air Force - Together We Served

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Wednesday, December 20
View Article  The Fall of Lima Site 85
by Roland, the Gunslinger on Wed 20 Dec 2006 12:23 AM EST

Lima Site 85 and the secret Air Force radar facility sat atop one of the highest mountains in Laos, 15 miles away from the border with North Vietnam. The site was defended by a force of 1,000 Hmong irregulars in the valley below, but a key element in its security was the mountain itself.

The drop on three sides was nearly vertical, and US officials did not believe the enemy could climb the cliffs. The fourth side of the mountain was fortified.

The assumptions were wrong. On the night of March 10-11, 1968, under cover of a massive artillery and infantry assault on the mountain, a team of North Vietnamese sappers scaled the cliffs, overran the radar site, and killed more than half of the Americans they found there.

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Tuesday, December 19
View Article  One really big reason why muslims deny the Holocaust
by Roland, the Gunslinger on Tue 19 Dec 2006 05:22 PM EST

In order for me to be admitted to the university I wanted to attend, I needed to pass three courses: a language course, a civics course and a history course. It was in the preparatory history course that I, for the first time, heard of the Holocaust. I was 24 years old at that time, and my half-sister was 21.

As a child growing up in Saudi Arabia, I remember my teachers, my mom and our neighbors telling us practically on a daily basis that Jews are evil, the sworn enemies of Muslims, and that their only goal was to destroy Islam. We were never informed about the Holocaust.

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View Article  Romania exposes communist crimes
by Roland, the Gunslinger on Tue 19 Dec 2006 11:51 AM EST

 

In a report to Parliament, as many as two million people were killed or persecuted by the former communist authorities in Romania...

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Monday, December 18
View Article  Ike and the Air Force
by Roland, the Gunslinger on Mon 18 Dec 2006 07:34 PM EST

 

Without doubt, Gen. of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower is best remembered as the supreme commander of the huge Allied invasion force that on June 6, 1944 stormed the beaches of Normandy and as a popular, two-term American President in the 1950s. Even so, Eisenhower also should be recognized for another of his critical professional roles: as a major player in the post-World War II struggle to create an independent United States Air Force.

 

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Sunday, December 17
View Article  USAF restructuring its forces for the future
by Roland, the Gunslinger on Sun 17 Dec 2006 03:15 PM EST

 

The United States Air Force is embarked on a new and fundamentally different approach to shaping its force structure. For the first time in its nearly 60-year history, USAF has adopted a comprehensive roadmap that sets out the preferred size, number, and composition of all of its operational forces

 

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