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Uutm Tammie Jo Shults on Fighting Stereotypes to Become a Pilot
Robert O Neill, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, speaks at the Best of Blount Chamber of Commerce awards ceremony at the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville, Tennessee, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 6.Luke Sharrett鈥擝loomberg/Getty ImagesBy Mark ThompsonNovember 9, 2014 10:09 PM ESTRobert O ;Neill may have fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden, but he was merely the stanley cup triggerman. The U.S. and members of its militarymdash;thousands of themmdash;killed the 9/11 mastermind. The fact is that O ;Neill and those telling his story seem to miss that point.There is no I in team, coaches and military commanders are fond of saying. But that rule apparently applies less and less if you ;re at the tip of the spear like the Navy SEALs who allegedly killed Osama bin Laden in his lair in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011.This week, O ;Neill, an ex-member of SEAL Team 6, is slated to discuss his kill shot to bin Laden forehead with Fox News. His tale comes nearly two years after a colleague, Matt Bissonnette, also a former member of SEAL Team 6, wrote a book, No Easy Day, about the raid under the pen name Mark Owen. Both violated non-disclosure agreements they signed as members of the Navy most elite special-operations force.These things have to be kept qu stanley cup iet for a number of reasons, stanley cup Don Mann, a former SEAL and author of Inside SEAL Team Six, said Sunday. Talking out like this goes Kiai Watch President Obama Read Mean Tweets About Himself on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Again
A masked separatist stands guard outside a g adidas samba overnment building in Slavyansk.Gleb Garanich / ReutersBy Mark T adidas samba hompsonApril 17, 2014 9:00 PM EDTThe reporter asked the masked pro-Russian separatist in the Ukrainian city of Slavyansk a simple question: why are you wearing a mask Irsquo;m sorry, he responded, but itrsquo a stupid questi af1 on.It sure is for anyone who pays attention to how Russia fights.The mask-wearing militants who have appeared in eastern Ukraine and taken over government buildings represent the latest face of Russiarsquo tradition of maskirovka mas-kir-OAF-ka . Itrsquo a word literally translated as disguise, but Russia has long used it in a broader sense, meaning any military tactic that incorporates camouflage, concealment, deception, disinformationmdash;or any combination thereof.It describes everything from manufacturing tanks in automobile factories to shielding them under tree branches near the battlefield. It can be used to hide soldiers with smoke screens, and to build warships under awnings. It includes sending soldiers in white uniforms to invade snowbound Finland during World War II and creating mock weapons and bridges in hopes of drawing enemy fire away from the real thing.The Soviets bought 100mm artillery pieces from Germany before the war. The Germans cranked the Russiansrsquo; use of those guns in their planning on how to invade Russian as part of Operation Barbarossa. But when the Germans invaded the Soviet |
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