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NEAR DISASTER ON FLIGHT 253(0)
March 3, 2010
Christmas, 2009, nearly became a day of terror. How did a terrorist come within a technical glitch of bringing down an airplane? More frightening – how the Obama administration didn’t appear to take the attack seriously.
COBRA’S ANGER: MARINES ASSAULT INTO NOW ZAD
Now Zad had been a Taliban stronghold. That was before the United States Marine Corps decided to clean out the place by sending two companies of Marines from the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion and 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment.
MARINES BLAST THROUGH NOW ZAD WITH ASSAULT BREACHER VEHICLES
The fighting at Now Zad went very smoothly. One reason was the fact that a new vehicle in the inventory made its combat debut. Meet the Armored Breaching Vehicle.
THE VENEZUELAN VIPER
Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has been out to cause trouble for the United States. Often it has come in the form of hot air or pow-wows with other global bad guys like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. However, the threat he poses is worse than just hot air. Chavez is trying to make himself into a danger to America.
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