Veterans...Get the hell in here now!

Montuno

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This is only a joke by La Legión In Afganistan about their pet (a wild male goat):

 
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Montuno

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But all the next funny vídeos are real. Btw, one of my friends was a cavalier of the goat of La Legión In the Spanish Continental NorthAfrican's provincies: every day he gave to the goat some kiffi (Moroccan marihuana) for dessert cos it was the goat favourite food, je, je...:



 
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haight

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Olive Drab Green said:
Thank you so much for sharing, brother. School’s had me extremely distracted, but I was hoping you might share. I want you to know, I am humbled and appreciate you so much. I can’t understand the personal feelings these moments had for you, and the weight they cause you to bear, for you personally, and for your comrades. To commiserate, not to compare, but your experiences echo quite a few qualities and happenings in my experience in Afghanistan. The mortarmen and searching for a PoO site you never found. Bodies being evacuated quickly by the enemy. Vehicle organization as it might apply to land vehicles. A green LT set us up in a staggered column formation in a wide open field similar to your case, which led to us getting ambushed. Shit like that. And I want you to know, I can’t get it from your perspective, but I understand every word you wrote, down to how it feels. You’re definitely not alone if you need someone to bullshit with. Love you, bro. Thanks for your service, truly. I’ve mentioned this before, but my Pap was a GM1 in the Brown Water Navy, serving three tours in ‘Nam. He killed himself when I was maybe 2. I wish I had known him more than I did, and I wonder what he’d think of me. I hope you’re alright.
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The Army’s Ranger school at Fort Benning, Georgia, holds a graduation every few weeks throughout the year, but Friday’s marked an historic moment: One of the graduates was an enlisted woman, the first enlisted woman to earn the coveted Ranger tab.

Staff Sgt. Amanda Kelley, 29, is the first enlisted woman to earn her Ranger qualification, according to 1st Armored Division spokeswoman Lt. Col. Crystal Boring.

She was one of 127 students to graduate on Friday, according to Fort Benning spokesman Benjamin Garrett, out of 347 hopefuls who began the training in late July.

An enlisted woman earning a Ranger tab marks another milestone in the Army’s integration of women into ground combat units. While an elective qualification, the rigorous two-month program, which focuses on small unit combat skills and tactics, carries an indelible level of respect from soldiers of all ranks and backgrounds ― and is practically expected for officers and NCOs serving in infantry and other ground combat units
 
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In 2006, Gina Elise founded Pin-Ups for Vets as a way to honor her grandfather's World War II service and raise money for veterans.

She had seen news reports about underfunded veterans' healthcare programs, older veterans who were stuck in bed without visitors and severe injuries sustained by troops fighting in the Middle East, according to her website.

"I just felt so strongly that I wanted to do something to help and improve the lives of our troops and veterans," she said.

A fan of World War II nose art, the decorative painting or design on the fuselage of an aircraft, she took that concept and developed a fundraising pin-up calendar.

Now the nonprofit is releasing its 13th annual calendar for 2019 and it features 19 female veterans. Calendar sales raise money to support VA hospitals, ill and injured veterans, homeless veterans, deployed troops and military spouses.

Pin-Ups for Vets also schedules tours of VA and military hospitals.

The 2019 calendar can be purchased at: www.PinUpsForVets.com.
 
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Honor guard soldiers from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," carry a casket bearing the remains of two unknown Civil War Union soldiers during a burial ceremony held at Arlington National Cemetery on Sept. 6, 2018​

By NIKKI WENTLING | STARS AND STRIPES Published: September 6, 2018

ARLINGTON, Va. – With a reflective, quiet ceremony Thursday afternoon, Arlington National Cemetery officially completed its first expansion in nearly 40 years – a 27-acre swath that is expected to be filled with military dead and their families by the 2040s.

Undercurrent of enthusiasm ran through an otherwise serious event. The expansion will keep the cemetery – long viewed as a shrine to America’s fallen heroes – viable for about 10 years longer than expected. Plans for the new space, titled the Millennium Project, have been in the works since Bill Clinton was president in the 1990s.

“It’s a hugely important project for Arlington National Cemetery,” said David Fedroff, the cemetery’s deputy chief of engineering. “Any time we get to increase our burial capacity and have the opportunity to continue to serve veterans for the future is an extremely proud moment.”

About 100 people huddled in the shade of two large tents in the cemetery’s new Section 81 on Thursday.

The event started with cemetery officials unveiling signs for two new roads – one named for lighthouse keeper Ida Lewis and the other for Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan W. Gifford.

Ida Lewis is the first woman to be honored with a street name at Arlington. In the mid-1800s, Lewis rescued people near Lime Rock Island in Rhode Island, where her family tended the Lime Rock Lighthouse. The U.S. Lighthouse Service later was absorbed into the U.S. Coast Guard.

“In 1854, her first rescue saved the lives of four men. At the time, she was 12 years old,” said Karen Durham-Aguilera, executive director of Army National Military Cemeteries. “She conducted many rescues, becoming a living legend, known even in her lifetime as the bravest woman in America.”

Two new sections of Arlington National Cemetery will be put into use as the grounds of the cemetery have expanded to provide more than 27,000 new spaces for internments.

Gifford, now the first Marine to have a street named after him at Arlington, is buried in Section 60 of the cemetery. He was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2012, when he led a counterattack against a Taliban ambush. Gifford, who died at 34, was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously. On Thursday, his wife, Lesa, and five sons, Jonathan, Joseph, Patrick, Thomas and William, along with his parents, Diana and Thomas, and brother, Matthew, watched as a cemetery official pulled a black cover from the new street name, Gifford Drive.

The dedication ceremony ended with the first funeral in the new space. Two Union soldiers from the Civil War, discovered by archaeologists in June, were buried in a corner of Section 81, near the intersection of Gifford Drive and Lewis Drive.

The soldiers, whose identities are not known, were found alongside amputated limbs in a shallow grave at Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia. Experts with the Smithsonian Institution determined the soldiers fought for the North.

Workers with the National Park Service used part of a 90-year-old oak tree from the battlefield, which fell during a windstorm, to create historically accurate coffins for the remains.

Soldiers, eight to a coffin, set them into place Thursday, as a 20-piece military band played “America the Beautiful.”
 
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