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[Moonman62]

I was a big Red Baron fan when I was a kid. I think it was because of Snoopy.

[Moonman62]

From Wiki:

Strategy vs Tactics

In military usage, a military tactic is used by a military unit of no larger than a division to implement a specific mission and achieve a specific objective, or to advance toward a specific target.

The terms tactic and strategy are often confused: tactics are the actual means used to gain an objective, while strategy is the overall campaign plan, which may involve complex operational patterns, activity, and decision-making that govern tactical execution. The United States Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms[2] defines the tactical level as “the level of war at which battles and engagements are planned and executed to accomplish military objectives assigned to tactical units or task forces. Activities at this level focus on the ordered arrangement and maneuver of combat elements in relation to each other and to the enemy to achieve combat objectives.”

If, for example, the overall goal is to win a war against another country, one strategy might be to undermine the other nation’s ability to wage war by preemptively annihilating their military forces. The tactics involved might describe specific actions taken in specific locations, like surprise attacks on military facilities, missile attacks on offensive weapon stockpiles, and the specific techniques involved in accomplishing such objectives.

[Moonman62]

Looking at that photo, Roddenberry was a big guy.

[ratzoe]

5th grade, was at Antietam for an re-enactment in 1962. I remember being able to buy a civil war bayonet and scabbard there for $15..not that any of us kids could afford that.

[jaydubya2]

The space shuttle “Enterprise” never flew in space.

[mass55th]

Thank you!! Visited Antietam battlefield quite a few times over the years. Both the 2nd and 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments fought at Antietam. Between the two units, Robert Gould Shaw, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, and Henry Sturgis Russell would go on to command the first black regiments raised in the north...the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments, and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (unmounted). One of Frederick Douglass's sons served in the 54th, and another in the 5th Mass. Cavalry. Towards the end of the war, the 5th Mass. Cav. was sent to guard Confederate POW's at Point Lookout in Maryland. George T. Garrison, son of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison also served as an officer in the 55th Massachusetts. He had never held a commission prior to his joining the unit.

One thing that I recently learned was that when Baron von Richtofen was shot down, the men of the RAF gave him a hero's funeral with Honor Guard and rifle salute.

[ro_dreaming]

George Takei (Mr. Sulu) and his family were interred at a camp for Japanese Americans in Arkansas. His cousin and aunt were among the dead in the atomic attack on Hiroshima.

And it’s made him a homosexual staunch liberal ever since!

(sarcasm? I don’t know anymore...)