Author: Michael

Marines often boast that their beloved Corps was “born in a bar,” specifically, that it was born at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, back when the very first would-be Marines decided to enlist on Nov. 10, 1775.
The original building that has long been celebrated as the birthplace of the United States Marine Corps was demolished in 1781, but soon a new Tun Tavern will open in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, just in time for the Corps’ 250th anniversary.

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Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump took a major trip to Asia, where he sought to make peace and trade deals. He started in Malaysia on Oct. 26, arriving for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. Next, he traveled to Japan to meet with the new prime minister. Trump wrapped up his visit in South Korea during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. In addition to meeting with South Korea’s president, he also met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

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Hermann Göring, onetime commander of the German Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, and Hitler’s designated successor, was the highest-ranking Nazi official to stand trial for the regime’s crimes. The postwar International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg was not only a monumental legal undertaking, it was a historical first. The Allied nations decided to prosecute the architects of the Nazi regime in an international court that would offer the defendants the justice they destroyed in their own country.

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The Army suspended a doctor from a Fort Hood, Texas, medical center last week, while a Texas law firm says it is representing over a dozen patients from the base who say the OB-GYN doctor took photos and videos of them during exams.
Fort Hood officials announced last week that a doctor at the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center was no longer seeing patients and that the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, CID, had begun an investigation “within hours” of a patient’s allegations.

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