Al Nofi's CIC
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Issue #113 May 5, 2003 |
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This Issue...
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Infinite Wisdom
"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier."
La Triviata
- The U.S. Armed Forces shipped over one million units of blood to Vietnam during 1964-1975, maintaining on hand at the peak of the war (1968-1969) a monthly average of about 30,000 units.
- In an effort to rid themselves of some predatory mercenaries to whom they had been forced to pay tribute, in 1354 the good people of Siena provided the �Great Company� with a �gift� of rations liberally seasoned with 35 pounds of poison, though unforutnately not a single one of the rowdy troops died as a result.
- Of 1,331 land engagements during the American Revolution, more took place in New Jersey than in any other state, 238 (17.8%), with New York a close second at 228 (17.0%).
- During the 1990-1919 Gulf War, about 95-percent of equipment and supplies for the Coalition forces arrived in the theater by sea.
- The first inkling the Carthaginian general Hannibal received that the Romans had defeated an army marching to his relief in 207 B.C. came in the form of his brother�s head, thrown into his camp.
- About a third of all Serbians who served in World War I perished, as did a quarter of all Romanians, Turks, and Bulgarians, some 15-percent of Frenchmen, and about 12-percent of Britons.
- The �bearskin� caps worn by the Grenadier Guards are in some instances a century or more old, due partially to careful maintainence and partially to budgetary parsimony.
- Brooke Astor, the centenarian who has for decades been the grand dame of New York society and a noted patron of the arts and philanthropist, is the daughter of John Henry Russell, the 16th Commandant of the Marine Corps.
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