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On March 27, 2007,
based on the communication strengths of the internet, an estimated 30,000 patriotic Americans from around the nation, came
through an east coast snow and ice storm to stand together at the War Memorials for World War II, the Korea War and the Vietnam
War. These proud American flag-wavers stood, and still stand together in full support of America's men and women
in military uniforms around the world.
Read the American Legion Magazine's article about the
March 17, 2007 Gathering of Eagles. (See pictures.)
Why are the two teenage boys' in the below picture eyes
closed?
UNITED STATES
MARINES IN VIETNAM
"Support Your Troops By Supporting Their
Benefits"
"Cut Benefits for Vets."
Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission Set Up By Leaders of Congress
ALL AMERICANS
Better watch this inspiring reveille call. Are you awake?
Leo
God Bless America;
The Rights And and The Freedom,
We fought for,
So Help me God.
GySgt
Angelo Vitalone Sr.
Semper Fi
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TODAY'S BRAVE AND HONORABLE MILITARY
IS TOMORROW'S VETERANS
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United States Navy's BLUE
ANGELS
The current American Military Men & Women make me damn proud of
being called a vet, and an American.
Whether, it is in The War on Terror or
Katrina Relief, these brave men and women are excellent
examples of American humanitarians. I feel they are great ambassadors for all honorable, American veterans.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 11:42 AM
Subject: Military Response to Katrina Intensifies
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Military Response to Katrina IntensifiesBy Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
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The 60,000 U. S. military forces on the ground in the hurricane-decimated Gulf Coast region are carrying
out President Bush's priorities -- saving, then sustaining lives -- before getting to the tasks of recovery and reconstruction,
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sept. 6 during an interview on Fox News Channel.
Rumsfeld, who traveled to the region Sept. 4 to observe operations firsthand, addressed the "enormous effort going on down
there" as 1,800 members of the 82nd Airborne Division and more than 1,600 1st Cavalry Division troops were joining the Hurricane
Katrina relief operation.
This brings to 18,000 the number of active-duty forces committed to the mission, in addition to almost 43,000 National
Guardsmen, U. S. Northern Command officials reported today.
An additional 5,400 active troops and 1,400 National Guard members are expected to flow into the region within the next
24 to 48 hours, DoD officials said.
Together, these forces are conducting humanitarian, search-and-rescue, evacuation and security missions, officials reported.
Rumsfeld said the Defense Department provided assets to support the effort "as rapidly as humanly possible" after being
asked to do so and had taken steps to ensure it was prepared for a quick response.
"I would go so far as to say we were leaning so far forward that we were actually moving things and prepositioning things
well before we were ever asked for them," he said.
In another new development, USS Tortuga was positioned pierside in New Orleans, where its crew is now conducting evacuations,
distributing food and water, and transporting support troops, NORTHCOM officials said.
Tortuga is among 27 ships -- 20 Navy and seven Coast Guard -- now on station in the affected region. USS Whidbey Island
delivered six floating bridges to replace those destroyed in New Orleans. In addition, USS Grapple is on station to support
salvage and clearing operations in cooperation with the Coast Guard, DoD officials said.
The hospital ship USNS Comfort, capable of treating 250 patients, is scheduled to arrive Sept. 9, DoD homeland defense
officials reported today.
In addition, 360 helicopters, half active duty and half National Guard; and 93 airplanes, 70 active duty and 23 National
Guard, are also supporting the operation.
Joint Task Force Katrina (Forward), currently at Camp Shelby, Miss. , is slated to relocate to the USS Iwo Jima within
24 hours, officials reported.
DoD officials reported these additional operational highlights today:
- DoD has provided extensive search-and-rescue, evacuation, and medical support, flying more than 5,200 sorties to date,
evacuating 75,000 people, rescuing more than 14,000 people, evacuating 7,500 patients by ground and more than 2,500 by air,
and treating more than 5,500 patients.
- The Army Corps of Engineers closed the 17th Street Canal levee breach in New Orleans and began pumping operations Sept.
6. Corps staffers are now working to open the city's pump station number seven.
- Mortuary affairs specialists are expected to arrive today at Camp Shelby to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency
process the deceased.
- The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here is providing a specialized DNA team to
help identify fatalities.
- An Army element arrived at Camp Shelby equipped with airborne and ground loud speakers to assist with evacuation operations.
- DoD provided 1,500 mobile radios and technical support to be used by officials in Mississippi and Louisiana.
- Six installations are providing support as transportation staging areas for ice, water and medical supplies. Little Rock
Air Force Base, Ark. , is serving as DoD's central collection point for supplies donated by foreign countries.
- Military Sealift Command contracted for one passenger ship to provide lodging for disaster victims and response personnel.
- FEMA has ordered 21 million individually packaged military rations.
- Field hospitals are providing 745 beds: 360 aboard USS Bataan, 260 aboard USS Iwo Jima, and 25 at Louis Armstrong New
Orleans International Airport.
- Ten Department of Health and Human Services Federal Medical Shelters, each with 250 beds, have been located at DoD installations.
Two shelters are at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. ; four at Fort Polk, La. ; and four at Meridian Naval Air Station, Miss.
- The Air Force established one of three tent cities to be constructed at the airport in New Orleans.
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Related Site:
Military Support in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
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Visit the Defense Department's Web site "America Supports You" at http://www.americasupportsyou.mil, that spotlights what Americans are doing in support of U.S. military men and women serving at home and abroad.
Visit the Defense Department's Web site for the latest news and information about America's
response to the war against terrorism: "Defend America" at http://www.DefendAmerica.mil.
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Subject:
USA! USA! USA!: Troops at play...
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THE BELOW PICTURES, STORIES & QUOTES;
YOU WILL NOT SEE OR HEAR THEM ON THE MAJOR AMERICAN
NEWS OUTLETS... ? WHY??
Amnesty International:
Insurgents are guilty
The Amnesty International report — "In Cold Blood: Abuses
by Armed Groups" — said (terrorist) insurgents were guilty of direct attacks intended to cause the greatest possible
loss of civilian life, indiscriminate attacks resulting in the deaths of civilians, targeting humanitarian organizations,
abductions and killing captured and defenseless police and military personnel.
"There is no honor nor heroism in blowing up people going to
pray or murdering a terrified hostage. Those carrying out such acts are criminals, nothing less, whose actions undermine
any claim they may have to be pursuing a legitimate cause," Amnesty said.
Sometimes in our everyday life we tend
to forget what's going on elsewhere in the world and that the brave men and women of the service are just like you and I.
They have family and friends back home who love them very much and are praying for their safe return.
Pictures you rarely see on the American news reports!!
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DID YOU SLEEP WELL LAST NIGHT...
HONORABLE VETERAN MOCKED
FOR HIS PTSD
   
HONORABLE VETERAN MOCKED
FOR HIS PTSD
The below story is about some terrorist attacks on my CAP Team, two years before I got there.
It's a great story that highlights terrorists and what they are capable of doing. Although the CAP Marines did their
best, American politicians won the village for the terrorists in the end. ( Pray the same thing does not happen in Iraq.
If it does happen, the terrorists will not stay in Iraq. They will be in America next. They have been here before.
[ 9-11 ])
At the time of the TET 1968 attacks, the CAP Team was called NOVEMBER 3. The team's name was
later changed to CAP 2-9-2 and was changed from a stationary CAP to a mobile CAP. A stationary CAP stayed in a
small compound, where the communists knew was located. A mobile CAP always moved around the village
and seldom stayed in the same area in the village for more than 12 hours at a time.
I served on the last team of Americans who lived and served in this same village.
Less than a year after the last Americans left the village, communists burned it down, killing and wounding hundreds of innocent
Vietnamese men, women and children.
Marine Corps Gazette article about a TET 1968 attack on a CAP Team just outside the
5th Marines Combat Base at An Hoa.
Why isn't the American News Media not covering these terrorist attacks on innocent Iraqis
for what they are. An evil that must be stopped.
Instead, the News Media covers these daily massacres as if somehow,
they would stop if America pulled out. This implies that America is the root cause of these innocent murders.
LIFE Magazine did a great article on this unit and the terrorists, these Americans faced everyday. Back during the Vietnam
War, we were labelled as the evil ones by the American News Media; and the Media is again trying to label today's
honorable, brave men and women in uniform.
Seven months after the last Americans were pulled out from my village of Duc Duc, terrorists massacred the village.
What do you think today's terrorists would do if America pulled out of Iraq?
(You can see pictures below of the Combined Action
Program (CAP) in Iraq today.)
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Civil Affairs Marine make a difference
in Iraqi community
Submitted by: 2nd Marine Division
Story Identification #: 20058273558
Story by Lance Cpl. Zachary W. Lester
CAMP KOREAN VILLAGE, Iraq (August 2, 2005) -- The Marine,
who plans to pursue an education degree, seems far from the classroom being deployed to Iraq, but he still gets the chance
to work with children.
Corporal Jeffrey H. Meighen, civil affairs non-commissioned officer, 5th Civil Affairs Group,
2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, goes out into the local communities and makes a difference in Iraqi children's
lives during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
"I love being around kids, these kids are good kids," said Meighen. "They smile
and seem comfortable with us."
Meighen sometimes participates in sporting events with the local children. He also hands
out toys and hygiene products while working to help rebuild their towns.
The Southern Senior High School graduate
conducts civil affairs missions to help people in the surrounding cities. As a part of CAG he helps restore critical infrastructure
such as water, health services, schools and other projects that help improve the Iraqi living conditions.
"If those
vital things are not up and running we push them to get them up and running through government funding," Meighen said.
The
Harwood, Md. native and his CAG team go out two to three times a week to interact with the Iraqi-nationals. They recently
set up a soccer game for the kids of a local village where Marines put nets on empty goals
and handed out jerseys, shorts, socks and even shoes.
"Basically I think the foundation for any society is the kids.
If we show them now that we are not all bad, that we are not here to take away their freedom, but to liberate them, the kids
will grow up knowing that and 20 years from now they will be the ones running the country," he said.
Meighen found
his way into the Marine Corps and later to here after talking to a Marine recruiter on the way to the Air Force office.
"I
figured that I would take advantage of everything I could while I was still young so I joined the Marine Corps," he said.
The 22-year-old is on his second deployment. During his first deployment he spent time in South America teaching several
South American countries' soldiers non-lethal combat techniques and anti-terrorism awareness.
"I have seen a ton of
progress. We came out here with a full plate of stuff to do and our civil affairs team leader has pushed hard to get a lot
of those things done," Meighen said. "I just hope we make a difference here."
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The American
Military aims to remove the stigma from seeking therapy for post-combat stress.
(The story at the below
link.)
PTSD has the
real STIGMA. Sadly, many Americans still have the image of Rambo in their minds, when it comes
to PTSD Veterans...
This image must be replaced with
the Truth...
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U.S. Soldier Named Sheik by Iraqi Citizens
Horn Helped Arrange
for Aid for Certain Villages
By ANTONIO CASTANEDA, AP http://www.ap.org/
QAYYARAH, Iraq (July 31) - Sheik Horn floats around the room in white robe and headdress,
exchanging pleasantries with dozens of village leaders. But he's the only sheik with blonde streaks in his mustache - and
the only one who attended country music star Toby Keith's recent concert in Baghdad with fellow U.S. soldiers.
Officially, he's Army Staff Sgt. Dale L. Horn, but to residents of the 37 villages and towns
that he patrols he's known as the American sheik.
Sheiks, or village elders, are known as the real power in rural Iraq. And the 5-foot-6-inch
Floridian's ascension to the esteemed position came through dry humor and the military's need to clamp down on rocket attacks.
Late last year a full-blown battle between insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi forces had erupted,
and U.S. commanders assigned a unit to stop rocket and mortar attacks that regularly hit their base. Horn, who had been trained
to operate radars for a field artillery unit, was now thrust into a job that largely hinged on coaxing locals into divulging
information about insurgents.
Horn, 25, a native of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., acknowledges he had little interest in the
region before coming here. But a local sheik friendly to U.S. forces, Dr. Mohammed Ismail Ahmed, explained the inner workings
of rural Iraqi society on one of Horn's first Humvee patrols.
Horn says he was intrigued, and started making a point of stopping by all the villages,
all but one dominated by Sunni Arabs, to talk to people about their life and security problems.
Moreover, he pressed for development projects in the area: he now boasts that he helped
funnel $136,000 worth of aid into the area. Part of that paid for delivery of clean water to 30 villages during the broiling
summer months.
"They saw that we were interested in them, instead of just taking care of the bases," Horn
said.
Mohammed, Horn's mentor and known for his dry sense of humor, eventually suggested during
a meeting of village leaders that Horn be named a sheik. The sheiks approved by voice vote, Horn said.
Some sheiks later gave him five sheep and a postage stamp of land, fulfilling some of the
requirements for sheikdom. Others encouraged him to start looking for a second wife, which Horn's spouse back in Florida immediately
vetoed.
But what may have originally started as a joke among crusty village elders has sprouted
into something serious enough for 100 to 200 village leaders to meet with Horn each month to discuss security issues.
And Horn doesn't take his responsibilities lightly. He lately has been prodding the Iraqi
Education Ministry to pay local teachers, and he closely follows a water pipeline project that he hopes will ensure the steady
flow of clean water to his villages.
"Ninety percent of the people in my area are shepherds or simple townspeople," said Horn.
"They simply want to find a decent job to make enough money to provide food and a stable place for their people to live."
To Horn's commanders, his success justifies his unorthodox approach: no rockets have hit
their base in the last half year.
"He has developed a great relationship with local leaders," said Lt. Col. Bradley Becker,
who commands the 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment. "They love him. They're not going to let anyone shoot at Sheik
Horn."
He has even won occasional exemption from the military dress code - villagers provide a
changing room where he can change from desert camouflage to robes upon arrival.
There are downsides. In his small trailer on base, Horn keeps antibiotics to take after
unhygienic village meals.
"I still refuse to kiss him," joked Becker, referring to the cheek-kissing greetings exchanged
among sheiks. "He doesn't have any sheep - he can't be a sheik," said Becker, apparently unaware of the recent donation of
the small flock.
Some may say he's doing a tongue-in-cheek Lawrence of Arabia, but Horn says he doesn't know
much about the legendary British officer who led the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire in World War I.
He acknowledges some villagers are offended at seeing a foreign soldier in clothing usually
reserved for elders, but he says this has diminished over time.
The sheiks told Horn they will give him an official document deeming him a sheik before
he goes home in about two months. He plans to frame it.
And the robe? "Maybe I'll put it in the closet and wear it on occasion," Horn said.
By ANTONIO CASTANEDA, AP http://www.ap.org/
I copied the below pictures and
narratives directly from the official website of the United States Marine Corps.
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Caption:
Cpl. Timothy R. Perea, a patrol leader for Combined
Action Program, based in the outskirts of Al Kharma, gives orders to one of his Marines during a joint patrol with Company
D, 505th Battalion, Iraqi National Guard July 27. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/02/2004 by Sgt.
Jose E. Guillen
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Caption:
Civilians in a local store look on as Cpl. Timothy R.
Perea, a patrol leader for Combined Action Program, and his radio operator Pfc. Jason T. Gomez, lead a joint patrol with Company
D, 505th Battalion, Iraq National Guard in Al Kharma July 27.. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/02/2004
by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen
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Caption:
Cpl. Timothy R. Perea, a patrol leader for Combined
Action Program, and his radio operator Pfc. Jason T. Gomez, lead a joint patrol with Company D, 505th Battalion, Iraq National
Guard in Al Kharma July 27.. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/02/2004 by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen
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Caption:
A platoon sergeant with Company D, 505th Battalion,
Iraqi National Guard runs his platoon during physical training at Camp Delta. The camp is run by Marines and ING soldiers
as part of a Combined Action Program. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/01/2004 by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen
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Caption:
A Marine keeps his distance from the Iraqi soldier and
interperter ahead of him during a joint foot patrol in Al Kharma, Iraq July 27. Marines of Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion,
1st Marine Regiment and soldiers with Company D, 505th Battalion, Iraq National Guard teamed together as part of Combined
Action Program in the outskirts of the city (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/02/2004 by Sgt. Jose
E. Guillen
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Caption:
Marines of Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine
Regiment, fall back to the rear of a formation for platoon physical training at Camp Delta. Marines and Iraqi soldiers revived
a Vietnam-era concept of working, training, living and fighting alonsgide one another through the Combined Action Program.
(USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/01/2004 by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen
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Caption:
Cpl. Scott T. Nelson, looks on at his Iraqi platoon
prior to kicking off physical training at Camp Delta. The camp is run by Marines of Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines
Regiment, and soldiers of Company D, 505th Battalion, Iraqi National Guard as part of a Combined Action Program. (USMC photo
by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/01/2004 by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen
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Caption:
Cpl. Kenneth L. Bryant, a squad leader with Weapons
Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, helps an Iraqi soldier during physical training at Camp Delta. The camp is run
by Marines and their Iraqi counterparts with Company D, 505th Battalion, Iraqi National Guard, as part of a Combined Action
Program. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/01/2004 by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen
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Caption:
Cpl. Scott T. Nelson, a forward observer for Weapons
Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, runs with soldiers with Company D, 505th Battalion, Iraqi National Guard. Marines
and Iraqi soldiers physically train together at Camp Delta. The camp is run by Marines and their Iraqi counterparts as part
of a Combined Action Program. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/01/2004 by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen
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Caption:
A soldier with Company D, 505th Battalion, Iraqi National
Guard takes his turn to assemble and disassemble an AK-47 rifle during weapons training classes at Camp Delta. The camp is
manned by Marines from Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment and Iraqi soldiers as part of a Combined Action
Program where both forces live and train together. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/01/2004 by Sgt.
Jose E. Guillen
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Caption:
An Iraqi civilian paints a new Iraqi National Guard
sign on the Camp Delta headquarters building. Marines and Iraqi soldiers are living, training and fighting together under
a Vietnam-era concept called the Combined Action Program. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/01/2004
by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen
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Caption:
Cpl. Kenneth L. Bryant, a squad leader with Weapons
Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, goes over a personnel roster with an Iraqi soldier during morning formation at
Camp Delta. The camp is run by Marines and their Iraqi counterparts with Company D, 505th Battalion, Iraqi National Guard,
as part of a Combined Action Program. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/01/2004 by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen
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Caption:
Lance Cpl. Jesus E. Martinez, a mortarman serving as
an armorer with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment retrieves a weapon during weapons check-in at Camp Delta,
in Al Kharma. Marine borrowed a tactic from the Vietnam War and re-employed the Combine Action Program, a concept where Marines
and Iraqis work, live, train and fight alongside one another. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)
Photo taken 08/01/2004
by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen
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I copied these pictures directly from the official
website of the United States Marine Corps.
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