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If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.

- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War

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Military Word Of The Day
2IC
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Second in command


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Today in Military History

April 9



1869:

Le Regiment de la Chaudiere: Aere Prennius (Truer than steel)


1869:

Les Fusiliers du Saint-Laurant: J'y Suis En Garde (I am on guard)


1917:

ARRAS, 1917, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 4 May 17)


1917:

VC won by Capt Thain Wendell MacDowell, 38th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France


1917:

VC won by L/Sgt Ellis Wellwood Sifton, 18th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France (posthumous)


1917:

VC won by Pte William Johnstone Milne, 16th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France (posthumous)


1917:

VIMY, 1917, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 14 Apr 17)




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