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Mar 19

19 MARCH 2003 – OPN IRAQI FREEDOM AIR CAMPAIGN BEGINS -20th ANNIVERSARY
“My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.”
– Pres. G.W. Bush

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On 19 MAR 2003, Pres. Bush declared Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF), a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq with the goal of deposing Saddam Hussein’s decades-old despotic regime and eliminating its capacity to create or utilize weapons of mass destruction. #USArmy #TRADOC #IraqWar @USArmy

The U.S. Army’s involvement in OIF began on the night of 19 MAR, when the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) attacked enemy border observation stations in the country’s southwest.
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Mar 18

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM - 20TH ANNIVERSARY - STRATEGIC SETTING

Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, the military intervention to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein’s dictatorial regime, began on 19 MAR 2003 and was the culmination of months of planning and international negotiation. #IraqWar

A 46-strong coalition of the willing was assembled under U.S.-leadership. Four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and Poland) committed combat troops to the initial invasion. The U.S. Army contributed 50% of the deployed personnel utilized in the campaign.
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The most of the ~230,000 U.S. Army soldiers were deployed under V Corps, which organized itself in Kuwait and included the 3rd ID, the 4th ID, the 82nd ABD, and the 101st ABD. V Corps and the I MEF would thrust northwest from Kuwait into Iraq at the start of OIF.
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Mar 18

18 MARCH 1945 - CENTRAL VISAYAS CAMPAIGN BEGINS - #WWII

After attacking Palawan and Mindanao, General MacArthur directed the capture of the now-isolated Central Visayas, or Visayan islands, of Panay, Negros, Cebu, and Bohol.

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While Filipino guerrillas controlled much of the countryside, 30,000 Japanese troops held the vital coastal town. Beyond his immediate objective to liberate the Philippines, the two ports were to be important staging areas for the expected invasion of Japan.

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The four islands were in close geographical proximity, but the high mountain range that ran north-south down Negros divided the region into two areas of operations, code named VICTOR I and VICTOR II.

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Mar 17

17 MARCH 1862 - PENINSULA CAMPAIGN BEGINS - #CivilWar
The U.S. Army of the Potomac began sailing from Alexandria to Fort Monroe, VA. This marked the beginning the Peninsula Campaign in which as many as 155,000 U.S. Army and 95,500 rebel soldiers participated.

The commander of the U.S. Army of the Potomac, Maj Gen McClellan, planned the campaign with the objective of capturing the Confederate capital at Richmond. McClellan's army gathered strength and supplies before advancing up the Peninsula between the York toward Richmond in April.

In the meantime, many slaves escaped bondage and sought refuge at the U.S. Army's Fortress Monroe, then commanded by Major General Benjamin Butler. Under the Confiscation Act, anything of use to the enemy's war effort could be confiscated as "contraband of war."

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Mar 17

17 MARCH 1776 - BRITISH EVACUATION OF BOSTON - #RevolutionaryWar

After the Massachusetts militia surrounded the British occupied city of Boston in April 1775 the provincial government established the New England Army of Observation.

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The Continental Congress adopted that force and established the Continental Army, with Gen Washington appointed as commander in chief, in June. In the meantime, the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on 17 June, which proved to be the only major engagement of the prolonged siege.

Washington traveled to Cambridge where he took formal command of the besieging army on 3 July 1775 and devoted the next several months to building and organizing the American force, and solving its severe logistical difficulties.

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Mar 16

WOMEN IN THE ARMY HIGHLIGHTS - 1802-1882

Between 1802 and 1882 Congress authorized the Army to hire laundresses. The women, who were the wives of enlisted men, received official rations. Their pay, however, came from the soldiers for whom they worked.

During the Civil War the Army hired thousands of women as nurses, cooks, matrons, laundresses, seamstresses, and waitresses. Many of these were African Americans who either had escaped from slavery or been liberated by the Army.

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Some of the nurses served in field hospitals and came under enemy fire. As in the Revolutionary War, a few women disguised themselves as men and served in combat.

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