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The 507th Maintenance Company was a United States Army unit which was ambushed during the Battle of Nasiriyah in the rapid advance towards Baghdad during 2003 invasion of Iraq on 23 March 2003. The most well known member of the unit was Private First Class Jessica Lynch whose rescue from an Iraqi hospital received worldwide media coverage.
On July 6, 1999, Barry Winchell, a 21-year-old infantry soldier in the United States Army, was murdered while he slept outside of his barracks by fellow soldier Calvin Glover for dating a transgender woman, Calpernia Addams, after a physical altercation between the two.
LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was a soldier in the United States Army who was found dead in a tent in Iraq. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led her family to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.
The United States Army Field Band of Washington, D.C. is a touring musical organization of the United States Army Military District of Washington. It performs more than 400 concerts per year and has performed in all 50 states of the United States and in 25 countries.
In 2011, he was chosen to star in the music video for "We Found Love" by Rihanna. [9] Since then his profile has risen in popularity. O'Shaughnessy has featured in some of the works by Oswald Boateng , Fred Perry and Stone Island (where he featured in a short film portraying his aspiration to be an Olympic boxer).
We Found Love" ' s use of vibrant colors and imagery is reminiscent of Oliver Stone's 1994 film Natural Born Killers, which depicts two murderers, Mickey and Mallory, on a killing spree in the southwest of the United States. The film incorporates "nightmarish-colors" and rear wall projected imagery, similar to that shown in "We Found Love". [36]
Shoshana Nyree Johnson (born January 18, 1973) is a Panamanian-born former United States soldier, and the first black female prisoner of war in the military history of the United States. [1] Johnson was a Specialist of the U.S. Army 507th Maintenance Company , 5/52 ADA BN , 11th ADA Brigade.
As the senior premier musical representative of the United States Army, the band has appeared at many historical events. It performed at the dedication of the Erie Canal ; at the Chicago and New York World's Fairs; and for the funerals of Ulysses S. Grant , Franklin D. Roosevelt , and Richard M. Nixon as well as the inaugurations of numerous ...