8,000 US troops storming a hilltop in Colorado

[JCSR]

I had never heard of this. Why do we have to get news like this from a English news source?

Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division carried out a brutal exercise on a hilltop in Fort Carson in Colorado. The storming of the hill commemorates the Battle of Dak To in Vietnam in 1967.

US troops storm Colorado hilltop to mark 55 years since Vietnam battle

Soldiers assigned to the 4th Infantry Division commemorated the 55th anniversary of the Battle of Dak To at Fort Carson in Colorado on Wednesday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Because US news sources are too busy telling you how woke the military is and how big a pussies young people are. Then conservatives eat it with a spoon and encourage people not to join. Something like this may run counter to the narrative, encourage people about our military, and have the opposite effect of destroying us from within and destroying our ability to project power.

 

[Creedmoor]

I just got a text from my #1 kid.
He said pops, tell them is missing Sugar Sand.

 

[oze]

I had never heard of this. Why do we have to get news like this from a English news source?

Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division carried out a brutal exercise on a hilltop in Fort Carson in Colorado. The storming of the hill commemorates the Battle of Dak To in Vietnam in 1967.

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US troops storm Colorado hilltop to mark 55 years since Vietnam battle

Soldiers assigned to the 4th Infantry Division commemorated the 55th anniversary of the Battle of Dak To at Fort Carson in Colorado on Wednesday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Goddammit! Another huge historical event that I was (am still) ignorant about. Thank you for posting this. Now I'm off to Amazon to try to find some reading about this battle, and hopefully remove one more grain of sand from my giant dune of ignorance.

 

[Twangbanger]

I'm guessing prolly because if you're reenacting a battle from a war we put 55k names on a wall losing...and the country involved ended up not much worse off than if we'd won...the media is probably not terribly interested in doing the military's recruiting for them?