Military April 30, 2018

The Angry Staff Officer: Warfighter: Battle of Endor
 
 
 
 
The Angry Staff Officer – Jay Kirell: “What About Second Breakfast?” How “The Lord of the Rings” Mirrors Army Culture
 
 
 
 
Military Police Soldiers Compete in Local Best Warrior Competition
 
 
 
 
Marines Sharpen Sniper Skills During Eager Lion
 
 
 
 

The Fall of Saigon[1][2] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (also known as the Việt Cộng) on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam under the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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By Martyn McLaughlin: Play to tell story of Tartan Pimpernel, Scotland’s war hero

The Rev. Dr. Donald Currie Caskie DD OBE OCF (22 May 1902 – 27 December 1983) was a minister in the Church of Scotland, best known for his exploits in France during World War II, during which he helped an estimated 2,000 Allied sailors, soldiers and airmen to escape from occupied France (mainly through Spain). The ‘Fasti’ – the record of all Church of Scotland ministers since the Reformation – simply mentions that he was “engaged in church and patriotic duties in France, 1939-1945”. In his autobiography The Tartan Pimpernel he states that ‘he had been called to Paris in 1935.’

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