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You may know something that someone else does not and/or we can attempt to highlight some military history and encourage learning at the same time.
RULE: Post a good military history question and 'Vote UP' the correct answer...if no one responds with a correct answer within 24-hours, post the answer.
RULE: Post a good military history question and 'Vote UP' the correct answer...if no one responds with a correct answer within 24-hours, post the answer.
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Posted 12 y ago
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While pertaining mostly to Ft. Sill, the answer is relevant to the Army as a whole. I was quite surprised when I first heard the significance of its design.
Snow Hall, a building on Ft. Sill, is designed to resemble a (what)? And what is its significance? The attached pic is what it looks like from google maps.
This isnt designed to really stump anyone, but to share some military history which I only fount out a few months ago...
Snow Hall, a building on Ft. Sill, is designed to resemble a (what)? And what is its significance? The attached pic is what it looks like from google maps.
This isnt designed to really stump anyone, but to share some military history which I only fount out a few months ago...
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SSG (Join to see)
Ft sill is the home of artillery but when air capabilities first came about their assets were used for artillery observation,
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SSG (Join to see)
SGM, respectfully, :https://www.facebook.com/FiresCenterofExcellence/posts/ [login to see] 734936 --> it is what is told said at Sill. While Ft. Sill IS currently both FA and ADA therefore the "Home of Artillery" it is said that Army Aviation started here... I wasnt there when it happened so, I could be wrong...
Keith Pannell pointed out that our Snow Hall was designed by Paul Harris, Oklahoma architect, to look like this shape that is sometimes a target and...
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SFC (Join to see)
Was once believed to have been shot down by Canadian CPT Brown, but a study showed it was actually Australian ground forces. Sergeant Popkin was manning a Vickers machine gun and, according to PBS' research, was in a good firing position to shoot down the Red Baron
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"Be All That You Can Be" became the Army's motto in what year, and what was the one before it?
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SPC Charles Brown
Did not mean to offend, I was offering my opinion on why co many changes to the Army's motto. Personally I like the new Army Strong. I don't understand why you voted me down when it was someone else questioned the motto changes. I take responsibility for offending you and am sorry. Thanks for the honesty.
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SSG (Join to see)
well, i took it as you were referring to me, but im a fair person, ill give you your thumbs up to make up for it.. but the way i read it was that you were saying i was the stupid one..
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SPC Charles Brown
No Staff Sergeant I was not referring to you. Sorry for the confusion. Have a great day.
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CSM Michael Poll
Private: comes from the Latin word privus or perhaps privo that meant an individual person and later an individual without (deprived of) an office. That certainly describes a Private in our Army or Marine Corps. The term as a military rank seems to come from the Sixteenth Century when individuals had the privilege of enlisting or making private contracts to serve as private soldiers in military units
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The Army used to have Infantry Divisions built on Regiments. Now they're formed by Brigades. Why and when did this happen?
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It was the Pentomic Division, a fantastically bad idea. It's wiki article appears to be quite accurate. The Pentomic Division failure should be taught at all PME courses to show that the good idea fairy is nothing new. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomic
Pentomic (cf.Greek pent(e)- and -tome, "of five parts") refers to a structure for infantry and Airborne divisions adopted by the U.S. Army in 1957 in response to the perceived threat posed by tactical...
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LTC Yinon Weiss
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Myth or Fact? "The 8th Calvary, of the 1st Calvary, lists it's colors to Chinese forces at the battle of Unsan in 1950."
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SSG Robert Blum
CSM you are correct. http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/loss.html
1. There is no official definition of the term "loss of colors." However, the term, in common usage, refers to the capture of a unit's
colors (flags) by the enemy in battle, or the taking away of a...
colors (flags) by the enemy in battle, or the taking away of a...
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what was the name of the only battle fought in Vermont in the revolutionary war?
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if the continental rear guard would have had more men, I think just from position alone the americans would have won that engagement. its a hell of a battlefield to see
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what was the real name of fort Ticonderoga? and what year was the fort taken by the british?
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SSgt (Join to see)
its Vermont where the green mtn boys are from. they were a militia formed in 1770 to protect property rights of local land owners.
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SSG James Doherty
I never said 1775. I said the British took it in 1759 from the French and in 1777 from the Americans.
"During the 1758 Battle of Carillon, 4,000 French defenders were able to repel an attack by 16,000 British troops near the fort. In 1759, the British returned and drove a token French garrison from the fort merely by occupying high ground that threatened the fort.... May 1775 when the Green Mountain Boys and other state militia under the command of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured it in a surprise attack. Cannons captured were transported to Boston where their deployment forced the British to abandon the city in March 1776. The Americans held it until June 1777, when British forces under General John Burgoyne again occupied high ground above the fort and threatened the Continental Army troops, leading them to withdraw from the fort and its surrounding defenses."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York in the United States. It was const...
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I actually was responding to another guys comment and mine posted after yours posted, so it looks like im calling you wrong, but im not
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