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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old



If disconnectedness is the real enemy, then the combatants we target in this war are those who promote it, enforce it and terrorize those who seek to overcome it by reaching out to the larger world.

Our strategic goals, therefore, are to extend connectivity in every way possible, but only in a manner which promotes justice as much as order.

- Thomas P.M. Barnett, "The Pentagon's New Map

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OJTS
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on-job training standard


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Today in Military History

September 27



1918:

CANAL DU NORD, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 1 Oct 18)


1918:

VC won by Lt George Fraser Kerr, 3rd Battalion, CEF, Bourlon Wood (near Cambrai), France


1918:

VC won by Lt Graham Thomson Lyall, 102nd Battalion, CEF, Bourlon Wood


1941:

First Liberty ship, the Patrick Henry launched in Baltimore




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