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The blue midnight sky was glistening with infinite stars that lay above my slanted head as I watched the twilight moon above me. Glancing down my hand, catching sight of the time gave me the realization that this was actually happening. Months of preparation, years of mental training and the day had come faster than ever. My mind and heart were trapped in the though and mission of protecting and defending my country, the country that gave me everything and was everything. I was 22, they call me…

as well as introducing powerful new weapons, culminating in the first use of nuclear weapons. There is a bunch of accessories with a World War II soldiers. It would be there guns. in the small arms category it would be, pistols, rifles, sub-machine guns, hand grenades, and even a…

Trenches made armies re-think their invasive strategies and made heavy artillery such as machine guns and shells very effective. Hand grenades, poison gas and bombs were extremely effective since all the numbers of enemies. In the early autumn of 1914, a line of opposing trenches were dug in Flanders that set a low bar for the lives of infantrymen for the better part of five years. The…

soldiers tired, sunken eyes. Their large combat boots crunched in the sandy grains of the Afghanistan desert. Their steps were in complete unison, and every step of their march led them closer to the violent turmoil that they would soon encounter. The rifle was hard and cold and struck against his shoulder with every moment. Father held back cries of pain, as it hit an infected wound from a previous conflict. The soldiers' stomachs ached with the pains of hunger, but they stormed on. They were…

seconds! God be with you lads!” After months of training and preparing, the day was finally here. Today was the start of a campaign that would throw the Nazis back to Germany. Today was D-Day. Suddenly, I came startlingly aware to the short cracks of rifles, pops of pistoles, and rattling of machine guns. I gulped and gripped my Thompson tighter. “Bing!” The guy in front of me, Todd, fell backwards, a hole in the center of his helmet and blood trickling down his face. His fall…

In this research paper, we will explore one of the most important and well known battles in World War II, which was the Battle of Normandy or also known as D-Day. Many people mistake the word D-Day, but it did not all happen in one day, but several days. D-day was given as a code name for the day that commenced Operation Overload. Many say that if it were not for the invasion of Normandy, Europe would have definitely fell under Hitler’s command. D-Day marked the beginning of the Allied…

techniques, but the technology to utilize these armies. The Civil War is the birth of modern warfare do to advances and developments in modern weapons, many of these are still on the battlefield today. These weapon systems ranged from the hand grenade to the submarine. The weapon systems killed at an efficient rate never seen for before. At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon took 25 percent casualties at Waterloo and this collapsed his army, but at many Civil War battles both sides took 30…

Gun fire rained down on the crowd. Everyone was running around trying to find safety. It was a war zone. People started dropping left and right. Blood was making pools in the field. Innocent civilians covered their loved ones. Screaming. People seeing their loved ones fall to the ground. All of this was happening during the Las Vegas Mass shooting. A gun man shot at innocent civilians for many minutes while no one knew where this guy was. Spending the most of his time getting these guns legally…

Did you know that the state of Virginia received just over 2000 weapons, consisting mostly of assault rifles? States like Tennessee have twice the amount and have roughly 900 vehicles, all from the military as well (LESO 1033 Program 2015). This may not seem like a lot; however, this information is part of a larger debate on whether the Federal government should continue militarizing American Law Enforcement by giving them this equipment. Many wonder how militarization started; however, before…

was fascinated by literature and writing. As a kid he “hated Boy Scouts and bugs and rifles”, instead he would go down to the library and read books like “Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” (NEA Big Read). Although he went to college and graduated with a political science degree and wanted to become a writer, he was drafted into the Vietnam war. He was a foot soldier and was stationed in My Lai, but during a grenade attack he was hit from a shrapnel and was sent home with a Purple Heart. He then…