They’ve sure earned their keep…Hooah Army!
Two hundred and thirty-three years ago, the United States Army was established to defend our Nation. From the Revolutionary War to the Global War on Terror, our Soldiers remain Army Strong with a deep commitment to our core values and beliefs. This 233rd birthday commemorates Americas Army Soldiers, Families and Civilians who are achieving a level of excellence that is truly Army Strong both here and abroad. Their willingness to sacrifice to build a better future for others and to preserve our way of life is without a doubt, the Strength of our Nation.
And a little history…
The June 14 date is when Congress adopted “the American continental army” after reaching a consensus position in The Committee of the Whole. This procedure and the desire for secrecy account for the sparseness of the official journal entries for the day. The record indicates only that Congress undertook to raise ten companies of riflemen, approved an enlistment form for them, and appointed a committee (including Washington and Schuyler) to draft rules and regulations for the government of the army. The delegates’ correspondence, diaries, and subsequent actions make it clear that they really did much more. They also accepted responsibility for the existing New England troops and forces requested for the defense of the various points in New York. The former were believed to total 10,000 men; the latter, both New Yorkers and Connecticut men, another 5,000.
At least some members of Congress assumed from the beginning that this force would be expanded. That expansion, in the form of increased troop ceilings at Boston, came very rapidly as better information arrived regarding the actual numbers of New England troops. By the third week in June delegates were referring to 15,000 at Boston. When on 19 June Congress requested the governments of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire to forward to Boston “such of the forces as are already embodied, towards their quotas of the troops agreed to be raised by the New England Colonies,” it gave a clear indication of its intent to adopt the regional army. Discussions the next day indicated that Congress was prepared to support a force at Boston twice the size of the British garrison, and that it was unwilling to order any existing units to be disbanded. By the first week in July delegates were referring to a total at Boston that was edging toward 20.000. Maximum strengths for the forces both in Massachusetts and New York were finally established on 21 and 22 July, when solid information was on hand. These were set, respectively, at 22,000 and 5,000 men, a total nearly double that envisioned on 14 June.
The “expert riflemen” authorized on 14 June were the first units raised directly as Continentals. Congress intended to have the ten companies serve as a light infantry force for the Boston siege. At the same time it symbolically extended military participation beyond New England by allocating 6 of the companies to Pennsylvania, 2 to Maryland, and 2 to Virginia. Each company would have a captain, 3 lieutenants, 4 sergeants, 4 corporals, a drummer (or horn player), and 68 privates. The enlistment period was set at one year, the norm for the earlier Provincials, a period that would expire on 1 July 1776.
– Christian
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Hey, Christian. The first of the FCS manned ground vehicles, the Non Line of Sight Cannon (NLOS-C, mini-crusader), is out in DC for the Army birthday this week. You planning any coverage on the new vehicle? Any thoughts?
F*CK OFF YOU FASCIST/NATIONALIST YANK BASTARDS -YOU WILL GET YOUR COME-UPPENCE!!! YOUR END IS NOW! YOU CANNOT CONTINUE WITH YOUR COLONIALISM OF THE WORLD!!
Oh, such sweet sentiments, AGK. There is no American colonialism, you silly gobshite. We do however have some lovely bits of wizardry to expedite terrorists and evildoers in facing their Creator. You’ll no doubt object to that as well.
Perhaps, if you have the courage, you’ll ask the people of Iraq and Afghanistan what they think of Uncle Sam having bothered to come over and throw off the yoke of Saddam or the Taliban?
How about the people of Indonesia whom we fed and tended their wounds after the tsunami? Or the decade we’ve spent protecting Bosnians and Kosovars?
Ask the South Koreans how they feel about the U.S. Army and the half-century we’ve stood with them cheek-by-jowl in facing down the Kim Il Sung and his pompadoured spawn?
How about the French, the British, the Belgians, the Dutch, and the rest of those who TRULY knew the color of fascism? How about those who suffered most under the hobnailed boot of the Nazis: the Jews? When the first Americans arrived at Buchenwald and Mauthausen, do you think they were as ingracious and insulting as you have been here?
My friend, I suspect you fancy yourself as a progressive filled with liberal ideas and hip notions about the world we live in. I pray you live long enough to see things in a brighter light. Santayana wrote, “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.
When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Cheers,
Chief B.
Monster: bandit archers in the mountain stronghold. Don’t go here til you are level 15, and even then go with someone else in the clan. Very deadly place at level 10. Reward: 9500xp (not worth it), 50 cheap Silkroad gold mp recovery herbs.
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while also distinguishing you as a “paying player” like Guild Wars Sword of the New World Vis is free to play but the premium content comes with a price tag. (I love this model by the way and kudos to K2 for supporting it).
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All things are the memories, before all things have been imprinted in my mind, the friends all have left the 2moons, sometimes before when the sleeping I often think of the previous screen, together with friends upgrade, earn the 2moons dil and together play with friends