Al Nofi's CIC
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Issue #46, August 11, 2001 |
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This Issue...
- Infinite Wisdom
- la Triviata
- Short Rounds
- The War of the Dog
- Paying Uncle Sam's Nephews, 1833
- Briefing - The Battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815
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Infinite Wisdom
"Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by the falsehoods which interests dictate and credulity encourages."
--Samuel Johnson
La Triviata
- During the first 94 days of the Pacific War, until his departure from Corregidor for Australia, Gen. Douglas MacArthur issued 142 communiqu�s, of 109 mentioned only one name, his own.
- Approximately one in twelve living Americans has served in the armed forces, for a total veteran population of about 24 million.
- When the 32nd Infantry Regiment was formed, on Oahu in mid-1916, former Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii dubbed it "The Queen's Own Regiment."
- According to Chinese tradition, the dominoes was invented during the thirteenth century by General Hung Ming, as a means of keeping men on guard duty awake.
- The desertion rate for black troops on the frontier during the late 1800s was only about a third that for white troops.
- When he first led an army against the Saxons in 991, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III (r. 983-1002) was only 11 years old.
- After the Vietnam War Britain quietly issued 70 General Service Medals with a bar "South Vietnam 1962-64" to SAS men, though the names of the recipients were never published
- The only occasion on which the U.S. Army is known to have taken a "dive" occurred in 1953, when elements of the Arizona National Guard's 45th Infantry Division went down for the count during the filming of War of the Worlds.
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