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Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally.

- Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's

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Today in Military History

June 28

1914:

The Archduke Ferdinand assassinated by "the Black Hand" at Sarajevo

1918:

Action of LA BEQUE

1919:

Treaty of Versailles signed

1948:

The Anglo-US airlift to Berlin begins

2005:

Operation Redwings. 4 US Navy Seals sent into mountains of Afghanistan to hunt Taliban warlord. The seals were discovered and were engaged in a fierce firefight with over 100 Taliban fighters. 50 of the Taliban were reduced and 3 of the Seals were killed. One Seal barely escaped with his life.

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