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Experience Gives Perspective

McCaffrey commanded B Co 2-7th Cav in Vietnam during 1968-69. In this series of video interviews, veterans of the company share their perspective of the battlefield leadership of then Captain Barry McCaffrey.

Captain McCaffrey was on his third combat tour at age 25. He would be wounded for the third time while commanding this Air Assault Company of the 1st Cavalry Division.

1st Sergeant Emerson Trainer was an enormously experienced field combat leader. He had served in the same B Co 2-7th Cav in the Korean War. He also would be wounded for the third team leading these terrific soldiers. The soldiers loved and trusted him. At age 35 he was the “Old Man” of the company.

The soldiers were mostly teenagers or younger than 22. Almost all were draftees….. even though draftees comprised less than 25% of the total troop population in Vietnam. These troops were incredibly courageous, aggressive, quick to protect their buddies, smart and physically fit. Combat was relentless and violent. We lived like animals and dug like moles.

The company operated alone on the battlefield but was supported by incredibly effective US artillery, attack helicopters, and US Air Force fighter-bombers.

These soldiers have stayed together in association for 50 years. Every two years we gather at the Vietnam Memorial and remember those who were killed…. and all those who protected each other.

Download a PDF copy Military History Stories, a biographical summary and history of the life of General Barry McCaffrey.

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16 Jun

Agree.

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MOSSADIL COMMENTARY:
TRUMP IS WRONG ON THIS ONE.

President Trump said Israel does not need to “knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody.”

But that line ignores the reality of the war Israel is actually fighting.
Israel is not fighting a conventional

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AI? Doofus.

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Austrian president said all women should wear a hijab to show solidarity with Muslims:

“With increasing Islamophobia, we might have to ask ALL women to wear a headscarf to show solidarity with those who do so for religious reasons.”

This is mental illness.

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16 Jun

BREAKING: US officials have now confirmed in a briefing that Iran will get full access to a total of $100 billion in frozen funds and the $300 billion reconstruction fund, both included in the deal with implementation now underway, per WSJ.

More than $150 billion of the fund has

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16 Jun

NATO now will survive as a European military alliance. The US no longer a trusted partner.

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Holger Neumann, chief of the German air force: We are ready to fight Russia tonight if Moscow attacks any NATO ally.

We will go in with everything we have, in the air force and across NATO, to defend our country, our population, and our alliance — The Telegraph. 1/

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16 Jun

Un imán tunecino en Francia pronunció un sermón en el que calificó la bandera francesa de «satánica».

8 horas después, la policía se presentó en su casa y lo subió al primer avión con destino a Túnez.

¡Había vivido en Francia durante 40 años!

¿Está de acuerdo con la decisión?

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