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Who is Johnny Cash?
Kent State University were protesting what specific event of the Vietnam War on May 4, 1970.
What is the Invasion of Cambodia?
This operation conducted in 1983 exposed communication and coordination problems between the different branches of the U.S. military when operating together as a joint force and triggered sweeping changes in the Department of Defense command structure.
What is the Invasion of Grenada, Operation Urgent Fury?
This rifle replaced the M1 Garand as the standard issue U.S. military rifle in 1960.
What is the M14?
This old 19th century Western fort has been the "Home of Military Intelligence" since 1971.
What is Fort Huachuca?
This soldier was traveling from Seattle to Fort Ord in 1951, when his airplane ran out of fuel over the Pacific. He swam to shore with a life raft near San Francisco
Who is Clint Eastwood?
Senators Wayne Morse (D-OR) and Ernest Gruening (D-AK) were the only two members of the House or Senate to vote against this measure in August 1964.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This event on October 3-4, 1993, saw the largest number of US casualties since the Vietnam War.
What is the Battle of Mogadishu or Operation Gothic Serpent?
This bulbous-looking propeller plane fuel tanker was replaced by the KC-135 .
What is the Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter?
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center is located in this scenic setting.
What is the Presidio at Monterey, California?
During WWII, rumor had it he bribed his draft board to classify him as 4-F. The official reason was because of his perforated eardrum. Army files indicate, however, that the military deemed him "not acceptable material from a psychiatric viewpoint."
Who is Frank Sinatra?
The Parallel used to marked the division between North and South Vietnam in 1954.
What is the 17th Parallel?
Operation Power Pack in 1965 saw the US invade this country.
The Navy and Coast Guard attempted to re-introduce this obsolete rank in 1982, only to abolish it a year later and replace it with "Rear Admiral (Lower Half)."
What is a Commodore?
This tiny remote WWII Pacific island is now home to the Bucholz Army Airfield and the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site.
What is Kwajalein Atoll?
This celebrity learned martial arts while serving as an Air Policeman in South Korea.
Who is Chuck Norris?
Project Popeye and Operation Commando Lava were two imaginative attempts on the part of the US to do what during the Vietnam War?
Operation Praying Mantis on April 18, 1988 saw by U.S. Naval forces retaliate in this body of water against mine damage to the American guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts.
What is the Persian Gulf?
The Army Organization Act of 1815 abolished this junior officer rank. But the Navy kept it.
What is an Ensign?
This is the oldest continually operating military base in the United States.
What is the Carlisle Barracks Army Base?
Known by another name, Laurence Tureaud became a an Army Military Policeman after getting expelled from Prairie View A&M University for his grades. In 1975 in Basic Training, he became "Top Trainee of the Cycle" a squad leader.
Who is Mr. T?
Name of the U.S. surveillance ship that was attacked by North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin?
What is the USS Maddox?
The longest running humanitarian airlift in history occurred here between 1992-1996.
What is Bosnia and Herzegovina?
These two ships were the last of its kind to serve in combat and did so in 1991 in Operation Desert Storm.
What were battleships USS Wisconsin and USS Missouri?
The Coast Guard does basic enlisted training here and officer training here.
What are Cape May, NJ, and New London, CT?