“Mayday!” came the frantic call from inside the tiny U.S. military attack helicopter after a rocket-propelled grenade fired by an al Qaeda-linked Iraqi lopped off its tail rotor and forced it to crash land in the desert 20 miles northwest of Baghdad. A fierce firefight soon broke out as the insurgents headed toward their prize: the downed AH-6 Little Bird chopper, and about 20 U.S. soldiers, including members of the secret Delta Force, who’d landed to protect it. Read More...
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March 2, 1953 12:00 AM GMT-5
In Indiana last week, Marion County Superior Court Judge John Niblack ruled that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. must pay accidental-death benefits on a policy held by a serviceman killed in Korea, even though the policy specified that its double-indemnity clause would not hold good if the insured died while “a member of the military services in time of war.” “What you want,” said the judge to the insurance company, “is for the court to rule there is a state of war between the U. Read More...
While what goes into the curation of every TikTok user’s For You page remains a mystery, one thing has become clear—content from University of Alabama students vying for a spot at the school’s sororities has dominated the app over the last week. This trend, dubbed “RushTok” by TikTok netizens, started when sorority hopefuls began making videos of themselves and what they were wearing for “Bama Rush,” University of Alabama’s Greek recruitment week. Read More...