Monday, January 6, 2020
The Left’s March Through Southern Institutions: We don’t need politics-as-usual—we need a revolution!
A photograph of the University of Mississippi Majorettes graced the cover of the September 24, 1962, issue of the popular national magazine, Sports Illustrated. This national magazine thought nothing of showing college majorettes wearing gray, quasi Confederate, uniforms while carrying numerous Confederate Battle flags.[1] In 1964 the Louisiana State Archives in conjunction with the State Superintendent of Public Education and WBRZ-TV published a book titled Heritage of Valor: The Picture Story of Louisiana in the Confederacy.
The book’s cover has two Confederate Battle flags plus a battle scene with Confederate soldiers defending their Battle Flag. The book’s dedication proudly declares the purpose to be, “That Louisianans May Be Worthy Of Their Heritage.” The term “War for Southern Independence” is used in the book’s preface. The book describes the Confederate Battle flag as being “…conceived on the field of battle, lived on the field of battle, and was borne on every field from Manassas to Appomattox.”
Local editors from several Louisiana newspapers and university professors assisted in the preparation of the book. Similar books were written in other Southern states during the celebration of the “Civil War” centennial. To honor her sons who wore the gray, Georgia, in 1958, added the Confederate St. Andrews Cross to their state flag. But things have changed! Recently, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, monopolistic newspaper refused to accept a paid advertisement defending the honor of the men who wore the gray in the War for Southern Independence and those who dare defend their Confederate ancestors.[2] Georgia removed the St. Andrews Cross from their state flag, and Ole Miss is no longer the “Rebels.” Why the change? Who is responsible for such a dramatic change? Did we the people of Dixie freely consent to this radical change?
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NYT: Trump’s Ground Game Against Iran
More than any other American military operation since the invasion of Iraq, the assassination yesterday of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the head of Iran’s Qods Force of its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, is a seismic event. The killings of Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leaders of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, were certainly meaningful, but they were also largely symbolic, because their organizations had been mostly destroyed. Taking out the architect of the Islamic Republic’s decades-long active campaign of violence against the United States and its allies, especially Israel, represents a tectonic shift in Middle Eastern politics.
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Sunday, January 5, 2020
Angels In Red Hats By General Barry R. McCaffrey
The battle record of the Vietnamese Airborne Division and the associated US Army Advisors and Air Force Forward Air Controllers is a tale of courage, self-sacrifice, and honor which stands out in the history of warfare. The ARVN Airborne was the most highly decorated of all the South Vietnamese Army units. Thousands of these brave Vietnamese paratroopers were killed, maimed. or became missing during their 25 years of nearly continuous combat service as an airborne force, from 1951 until 1975.
Eight of the nine Vietnamese parachute infantry battalions and all three brigade headquarters were awarded the United States President Unit Citation during their years of ferocious combat white fighting alongside the US 1st Cavalry, 1st. 4th, and 25th Infantry Divisions; and the 101st Airborne Division as well as the 173rd Airborne Brigade. The Vietnamese Paratroopers also fought valiantly in support of the heroic US and Vietnamese Marine counterattack which successfully recaptured the city of Hue during the Tet Offensive of 1968.
The Vietnamese Airborne was an elite force of all-volunteers. The airborne troopers went nine week of intensive combat training followed by a three week jump school modeled after the Ft. Benning parachute training system. These special volunteers received better pay, rations, quarters and family benefits than the common South Vietnamese soldiers. More was expected of them - and more was given.
Vietnamese airborne traditions came from the French Airborne. with whom they jump into Dien Bien Phu in 1953. These Vietnamese Red Beret epitomized the warrior ethic of the Spartans. Their discipline tolerated no surrender and never allowed the abandonment of friendly wounded or weapon. They did not fight for a government, a flag, nor the Americans. These Vietnamese paratroopers, whether officer, NCO, or soldiers, lived and died for the honor of the Airborne.
The Vietnamese Airborne forces served throughout the Vietnam Conflict as the National Strategic Reserve. By 1967, at peak strength, more than 13,000 paratroopers were formed into nine infantry battalions, three artillery battalions, and division troops. Battalion combat teams staged by parachute assault or helicopter insertion from Tan Son Nhut airbase in Saigon as reinforcements to the major battles of the war.Throughout the endless war, the parachute forces were constantly committed to fight wherever the action was most dangerous.
The long years of bloodshed took their steady toll on these brave soldiers. In the final desperate struggles of 1975, the Airborne Division was expended and bled to death in the horrific battle of Phuoc Tuy Province, in the Central Highland, and Xuan Loc. These courageous Vietnamese airborne soldiers fought to the very end. Their spirit and tradition lived on long after the war. For ten years after the downfall of Saigon government, refugees spoke of surviving groups of ARVN paratroopers fighting an unsupported guerilla war in the mountainous jungle of Central Highlands.
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Iranian Official Announces $80 Million Reward For Trump’s Head as MP Calls for Strike on White House
Via Billy
Immediately after Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a US drone strike early Friday
morning outside the Baghdad airport, regime leaders including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani, vowed they would retaliate.
Al Aribaya reports that the eulogist at Soleimani’s funeral procession offered an $80 million reward for President Trump’s head. The procession was broadcast live on Iranian state television from the Iranian city of Mashhad.
Immediately after Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a US drone strike early Friday
morning outside the Baghdad airport, regime leaders including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani, vowed they would retaliate.
Al Aribaya reports that the eulogist at Soleimani’s funeral procession offered an $80 million reward for President Trump’s head. The procession was broadcast live on Iranian state television from the Iranian city of Mashhad.
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The Savior Elite: Inside the Special Operations Force Tasked with Rescuing Navy SEALS
They are the military’s “guardian angels.” They are trained paramedics, paratroopers, and combat divers. This is the story of one such airman, and the mission of a lifetime.
RAMP DOOR!”
The
jumpmaster screams the command over the roaring engine, and the back
hatch of the HC-130 aircraft yawns open into night. A cold wind enters
the cabin. It brushes past the seven airmen seated in rows, sending
stray pieces of paper, fabric, and tape fluttering in the thin air. In
front, the team leader, Sergeant St. Clair** looks out past the ramp
door. He can see nothing. A low blanket of clouds blots out the moon and
stars and erases the distinction between the black sky and the black
Atlantic Ocean beneath. He turns back to his men, each strapped with
over a hundred-and-fifty pounds of gear. Their faces are lit only by the
lambent glow of chemlights.
“STAND UP!”
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