NCC Harsh

With the decisive battles of 1950 through 1951 behind it, the Korean War simmered down to negotiations toward an armistice, in parallel with a seemingly endless series of minor melees over various strategic scraps of higher-altitude real estate. While United Nations and communist forces argued daily at Panmunjom — a village in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea — the soldie...[Read More]

The Villa Verde Trail, a 27-mile path in northern Luzon, Manila, was a narrow, densely vegetated mountain path. Deeply entrenched along this trail was elements of Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita’s Shobu fighting force — 8,000 well-trained, disciplined and fanatical soldiers of within the Japanese army. The trail intersected Highway 5, a major Japanese highway and supply route. To eliminate the Japanese fr...[Read More]

On June 2, 1918, during Germany’s spring offensive offensive on the Western Front, the enemy encountered a newly arrived company of Marines — and they, unlike a French unit pulling back to more defensible ground, were marching straight toward the enemy. The outcome was a grim introduction to modern warfare and an act of extraordinary heroism from another segment of the Corps that has since found i...[Read More]

“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans,” Trump said in the post.

President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. military has carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month. Trump in a social media posting said the strike killed three and was carried out against a vessel “affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.” He did not provide more precise d...[Read More]

The Trump administration has told Congress it plans to sell nearly $6 billion in weapons to Israel, a fresh surge of support for the U.S. ally as it faces increasing isolation over its war in Gaza. It includes a $3.8 billion sale for 30 AH-64 Apache helicopters, nearly doubling Israel’s current stocks, and a $1.9 billion sale for 3,200 infantry assault vehicles for the Israeli army, according to a...[Read More]

Commissary officials have taken the first step toward the potential privatization of the military grocery stores, seeking input from the commercial grocery industry on whether they could take over the operation of 178 commissaries across the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The Defense Commissary Agency released an official Request for Information, or RFI, on sam.gov, the...[Read More]

SEATTLE — Four U.S. Army soldiers who were part of an elite team that does nighttime missions died when the MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter they were aboard crashed earlier this week near a military base in Washington state, Army officials said Friday. The helicopter was on a routine training mission west of Joint Base Lewis-McChord when it crashed at about 9 p.m. Wednesday, the U.S. Army Special Oper...[Read More]

The Virginia National Guard mobilized 40 soldiers and airmen this week to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with non-law enforcement duties, Virginia National Guard officials announced Friday. The troops were mobilized Monday and are serving at ICE field offices across Virginia, where they are performing clerical and logistical tasks such as answering phones, appointment scheduling, ...[Read More]