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Camp Blaz under construction on Guam. Image taken in September, 2022. PHOTO © 2023 PLANET LABS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REPRINTED BY PERMISSION

The U.S. Marine Corps has activated a new base camp on the strategic island of Guam in the Pacific, and, at least according to the Marines, it will serve as the first newly constructed base for the service in 70 years. Named Camp Blaz, the installation’s location is not only steeped in Marine Corps history dating back decades but the activation also reflects the U.S.

“We hoped to succeed by sheer bravado,” William Colby wrote. “This was the kind of direct American action they’d heard about…”
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F-16Cs and an F-35A from the Nellis aggressors. Jamie Hunter

“I would say we are more valid now than ever before. With the Secretary of the Air Force and Secretary of Defense saying their focus is China, China, China, that’s what we are here for. We are here to embody and replicate our enemies to the best of our ability,” says Lt. Col. Christopher “Vön” Finkenstadt, F-16 pilot, and commander of the U.S. Air Force’s 64th Aggressor Squadron (AGRS), at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 
Finkenstadt cites the message from his boss, Maj.

A lot of large employers have private jets to ferry their top employees around the country. Some have fleets of multiple aircraft. So it kind of makes sense that the world’s largest employer (the U.S. Department of Defense) would have its own airline and secret private terminals at select airports for those special VIPs. For the select few that need to be carried to the DoD’s most sensitive installations the Department of the Air Force operates Janet: the airline by and for secret squirrel personnel around the United States.

February 1846 – Mob violence breaks out in Nauvoo, Illinois. The Mormons who settled the town are in big trouble. The Protestants in the region find Mormonism a little too . . . well . . . un-Protestant, and they viciously attack the Church of Latter-Day Saints. Brigham Young, the head honcho of the Mormons, needs to get his people out fast. Word on the street is that there’s refuge in Utah. That’s Young’s best bet for sure.

David Brown is most known for his producing of such films as Jaws, The Sting, The Verdict, Driving Miss Daisy, A Few Good Men, Cocoon, Jaws 2, The Eiger Sanction, Kiss the Girls, Deep Impact and Along Came a Spider, many of which have set box office records or won many Oscars. He also produced Broadway shows such as the Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Brown was an educated man who earned degrees from Stanford and Columbia. He partnered with Richard Zanuck of Hollywood royalty to produce films.

Coffee has fueled the U.S. military since long before it needed actual fuel for vehicles. It was one of the prized commodities that made life bearable for Union troops in the Civil War (and the scarcity of which made life worse for the Confederates), and troops’ love for brewed coffee led to a new mode of preparation in World War II, the Americano. 
It’s hard to imagine coming to work in the military every day and not seeing the large, strong flagon of hot coffee, waiting, just the way the Sergeant Major or Master Chief likes it.

It isn’t uncommon to find shotguns where the only implement for aiming is a single bead at the end of the barrel. Thankfully the modern firearms industry has given us many options to fix this issue, with the red dot sight being a top option in the shotgun arena. We are going to look at some options out there and find the best red dot sights for a given purpose.

A Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Camel contingent march at Kartvya Path during the Republic Day parade on January 26, 2023. (Twitter/@sneha_ddrwl).

The U.S. military had the Union Army Camel Corps in the 1860s. The British military launched an Imperial Camel Corps in World War I. Now, the Indian military is flaunting its own storied camel contingent — if you can see them, that is.

U.S. Army photo

April 4th, 2003, “Iraq went to hell and the insurgency began,” recalled Erik Albertson, a retired US Army senior non-commissioned officer who served as a tanker in all positions on the M1A1 and early versions of the M1A2 SEPv2 Abrams main battle tank.
As Moqtadr al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army launched attacks against U.S. forces in Baghdad, Kut, and An Najaf, 20 U.S. soldiers were trapped in Sadr City in northern Baghdad.