From the Stars and Stripes archives: A soldier outside the “Nui Ba Den Post Exchange and Mail Room” checks out an issue of the Pacific Stars and Stripes that was just delivered at Black Virgin Mountain, Vietnam, 1969.
From the Stars and Stripes archives: A soldier outside the “Nui Ba Den Post Exchange and Mail Room” checks out an issue of the Pacific Stars and Stripes that was just delivered at Black Virgin Mountain, Vietnam, 1969.
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From the Stars and Stripes archives: Sgt. Christopher Merkle (left) and Sgt. Jose Rodriguez ducked doctors, hitched rides, begged for gear and even thought about stealing a humvee to return from a shock trauma center in Iraq to their their unit after sustaining injuries in a truck accident.
Just over 80 years ago, U.S. troops entered Vicenza and defeated a ragged but determined German force to reclaim it for an alliance on the cusp of victory in Europe.
![Hed: Training and learning from Ukrainian forces, 2015
Yavoriv, Ukraine, July 9, 2015: A Ukrainian national guardsman, wearing camouflage, reacts to a simulated attack at a training facility in Yavoriv, Ukraine.
Some 300 members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team are in the Ukraine for a six-month deployment to train Ukrainian forces. But they admit that after more than a decade of counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have little experience fighting a professional and technologically advanced foe.
“A Ukrainian platoon sergeant mentioned a time where he came into a direct fight with a BMP [Soviet-era infantry fighting vehicle] from 15 meters away,” he said. “They’ve attacked armor with anti-armor weapons from only 10 to 15 meters away, something we would have taught our soldiers is an absolute impossibility,” Sgt. 1st Class Jacob Hurt said.
Read more about how the U.S. and Ukrainian forces learn from each other here.
https://www.stripes.com/news/2015-07-26/ukrainians-training-with-us-forces-have-their-own-lessons-to-share-1814654.html1
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