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Staff Sergeant Reckless (c. 1948 – May 13, 1968), a decorated warhorse who held official rank in the United States military, [1] was a mare of Mongolian horse breeding. Out of a racehorse dam, [a] she was purchased in October 1952 for $250 (equivalent to $3,000 in 2024) [2] from a Korean stableboy at the Seoul racetrack who needed money to buy an artificial leg for his sister. [3]
Chief, the US Army's last living operational cavalry mount at the time of his death, Sergeant Reckless , a highly-decorated packhorse who served in the Korean War , and Comanche , one of the only survivors of the Battle of Little Bighorn .
The court-martial of 30-year-old Sgt. Adam Michael Holcomb of Youngstown, Ohio, one of the four charged in Chen's death, began in July 2012. He faced charges including negligent homicide, reckless endangerment, communicating a threat, assault, maltreatment of a subordinate, dereliction of duty, and violating a lawful general regulation, which ...
Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come, walking right into a deadly ambush. Here’s Nick, pausing in a lull.
The death of an inmate was met with outrage and conflicting stories from prison staff and local media after prison guards allegedly locked an inmate into a scalding hot shower and left him there ...
Sergeant Reckless served as an ammunition carrier horse for the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War and was given the Dickin Medal for "her bravery and devotion to duty", noting that she had been wounded in battle twice and in particular her service during the Battle for Outpost Vegas in 1953 when she made 51 trips in one day ...
For many other U.S. troops, exposure to killing and other traumas is common. In 2004, even before multiple combat deployments became routine, a study of 3,671 combat Marines returning from Iraq found that 65 percent had killed an enemy combatant, and 28 percent said they were responsible for the death of a civilian. Eighty-three percent had ...
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