Good morning everyone.
Posted on 01/21/2005 10:20:21 PM PST by snippy_about_it
One of the American company commanders at 73 Easting was CPT H.R. McMaster who gained a lot of attention when he wrote of the battle in Army professional magazines. He is now COL H.R. McMaster, comander of the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR) at Fort Carson, getting ready to deploy to Iraq next month. McMaster gained a lot of attention within the Army again a couple months ago when he said he was taking all his armored vehicles to Iraq with the regiment. The Department of the Army guidance was to take 1/3 of his armored vehicles and mount everyone else on wheeled vehicles--primarily HMMMWVs. McMaster found the Army bureaucrats were more tenacious than the Iraqis--they fought for months, but he just won that battle, too. The 3d ACR will be deploying with all its tanks & Brads.
Well, as I was taught decades ago during a class on calling for and adjusting fire: "when in doubt, REPEAT!"
On This Day In history
Birthdates which occurred on January 22:
1440 Ivan III the Great, Russian czar (1462-1505)/conquered Lithuania
1561 Francis Bacon England, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum)
1592 Pierre Gassendi Champtercier Provence, scientist/philosopher
1788 Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron England, romantic poet/ deadbeat (Don Juan)
1802 Richard Upjohn US, gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, New York)
1826 [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1858 Betrice Potter Webb England, economist
1875 DW Griffith movie producer/director (Birth of a Nation)
1890 Fred M Vinson Kentucky, 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53)
1899 Guido Kisch Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)
1906 Robert E[rvin] Howard US, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror)
1909 Ann Sothern [Harriette Lake], North Dakota, actress (Lady in a Cage, My Mother the Car)
1909 [Sithu] U Thant Burma, 3rd UN Secretary-General (1962-72)
1923 Diana Douglas Devonshire Bermuda, actress (The Cowboys)
1924 J J Johnson composer/jazz trombonist
1924 Margaret Whiting big band singer
1928 Birch Bayh (Senator-D-IN)
1929 Rita Gillespie TV director
1931 Sam Cooke Clarksdale MS, gospel & blues singer (You Send Me, Another Saturday Night, Twisting The Night Away)
1934 Bill Bixby San Francisco CA, actor (The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian)
1934 Graham Kerr chef (Galloping Gourmet)
1935 Pierre S Du Pont IV (Governor-DE)
1937 Joseph Wambaugh East Pittsburgh PA, police writer (Onion Fields)
1940 John Hurt England, actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express)
1949 Steve Perry Hanford CA, vocalist (Journey-Open Arms, Oh Sherry)
1955 Thomas David Jones Baltimore MD, PhD/Astronaut (STS 59, 68, 80, sk 98)
1957 Mike Bossy NHL forward (New York Islanders)
1959 Linda Blair St Louis MO, actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St)
1973 Deon Minor Paris Texas, 400m runner
1979 Melanie Winiger Miss Switzerland-Universe (1997)
1982 Kevin Sheridan actor (Soul Man)
2179 Hikaru Walter Sulu San Francisco CA.
Did you survive the raaaaaaaaaaging blizzard?
Read: 1 Peter 4:1-5
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. —Romans 12:2
Bible In One Year: Job 21-24
Two college students in Moorhead, Minnesota, painted a mural on the wall outside their dormitory room. According to USA Today, it showed a school of fish all swimming in the same direction except for a single fish heading the opposite way.
The one fish was intended to be the age-old symbol for Christ. Printed on the picture were the words, "Go against the flow." University officials, arguing that the mural might offend non-Christians, ordered the students to paint over it.
In obedience to our Master, we must be willing to go against the flow of society. As we follow Jesus, our motives, values, and habits are bound to be different from those who are not Christians. That's the way it was in the first century when the pagans were puzzled and convicted by the lifestyle of Christians. Peter wrote, "They think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you" (1 Peter 4:4).
When we are marching to the beat of a different drummer, of course we will be out of step with certain aspects of society. This takes conviction, courage, and courtesy. But by God's enabling grace we can be disturbingly different—and effectively different too. —Vernon Grounds
Morning Aeronaut
Morning E.G.C.
The day is starting out sunny. :-)
Morning GailA
Breakfast!!! and eggs and bacon to go with it. :-)
Morning alfa6.
Welcome back to the day people. ;-)
Thanks for sharing the info on Col. McMaster.
The 3d ACR will be deploying with all its tanks & Brads.
:-) As it should be.
LOL! Seems to be a lot of that going around the last few days.
Good Morning, Feather.
Morning Sam.
Snow storm happening here. Ugh.
Veeeeeeeeeeery interesting!
University officials, arguing that the mural might offend non-Christians, ordered the students to paint over it.
It's only PC to offend Christians.
Quit hogging all the snow. You have more than your "fair share"
and it is happening all over the place these days.
I love not being politically correct.. : )
Man you can have my share. We are getting dumped on.
Unnnngh!
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