The Army has identified two 1st Cavalry Division soldiers who died in an Apache helicopter crash earlier this week.
The pilots were identified as Chief Warrant Officer 2 Deontre T. Huey and Warrant Officer Seth L. Olmstead. The two soldiers were assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army officials said Friday.
The soldiers were flying a maintenance test flight when their AH-64E Apache helicopter from Fort Hood, Texas, crashed Wednesday, officials said.
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When Congress considered a resolution to make “The Star-Spangled Banner” the United States’ official national anthem in 1929, resistance soon followed.
One argument was that the melody came from an old English drinking song. Some felt that connection was too low-brow and should disqualify the song from becoming America’s anthem. Other concerns, according to the American Battlefield Trust, included claims that “The Star-Spangled Banner” was difficult to perform and wasn’t good for marching. Naysayers also asserted it was overly militaristic. (No kidding.
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The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) progressively refined its missile and drone operations during the the first five months of hostilities with the United States, allowing it to exploit weaknesses in American air defenses while simultaneously forcing Washington to expend increasingly scarce interceptor missiles. Sources cited by The New York Times reported that this involved using increasingly sophisticated combinations of missiles and drones to complicate the U.S.