After an extended NATO air campaign that began 24 MAR 1999, a NATO-led international peacekeeping force called the Kosovo Force (KFOR) deployed to Kosovo on 11 JUN 1999 to maintain the tenuous peace between warring ethnic factions.
In 1998 Kosovo, an autonomous region of Serbia which was home an ethnic Albanian majority and a sizable ethnic Serbian minority, became the site of a civil war between Albanian separatists and the Serbian government of the war criminal Slobodan Milošević.
In early JUN, after the NATO bombing campaign, Serbia agreed to allow an international peacekeeping force into Kosovo oversee the return of refugees and maintain peace during the reconstruction process.
The 30,000-strong KFOR began fanning out across Kosovo on 12 JUN. They discovered much of the region had descended even further into lawlessness with the departure of Serbian government troops, with ethnic Albanians using the vacuum to exact revenge on ethnic Serbs. @TRADOC
KFOR peacekeepers, including elements of the Army’s 1st ID, 82d ABD, and 1st AD, quelled the unrest and facilitated the flood of returning refugees. The Kosovo Defense Campaign officially ended on 31 DEC 2013 and a small KFOR peacekeeping group remains in the region. @USArmy
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SOLDIER PROFILE – LIEUTENANT COLONEL CHARITY ADAMS
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Charity Adams set the blueprint for Black women in the U.S. Army as the commander of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, becoming the highest-ranking Black female soldier in the Army during WWII.
@USArmy @TRADOC @TRADOCCSM @TradocDCG @TradocCG @FortGreggAdams Adams’ service with the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) began in 1942 when the Army commissioned her to serve as a staff training officer, station control officer, and company commander.
@USArmy @TRADOC @TRADOCCSM @TradocDCG @TradocCG @FortGreggAdams In 1943, she received a promotion to MAJ, making her the highest-ranking woman at the training center. By 1944, she was commanding the 6888th, the first unit of Black WACs to serve abroad. Their mission was to route soldiers’ mail, handling ~65,000 pieces of mail a day.
SOLDIER PROFILE – SERGEANT WILLIAM CARNEY, MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
One of 18 Black Civil War soldiers to earn the Medal of Honor, Sergeant William Carney fought for the cause of liberty as part of the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Inf. Regt.
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Carney earned his Medal of Honor at the tragic Second Battle of Fort Wagner, when the men of the 54th heroically assaulted Confederate fortifications against overwhelming odds.
One of the most dangerous battlefield roles during the Civil War was that of color bearer; soldiers carrying the regimental and national flags were easy targets for enemy fire, and the enemy often attempted to capture the colors to reduce unit morale.
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The 1st Armored Division is the U.S. Army’s oldest tank formation, and throughout its history “Old Ironsides” (an homage to the USS Constitution) has meted out armored hammer-blows against America’s foes.
Founded in 1940, the 1st AD was the Army’s answer to the Nazi blitzkrieg juggernaut scything through Europe. After extensive training, the 1st AD saw its first action in North Africa, landing as part of the Operation TORCH invasion on 8 NOV 1942.
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After a hard-fought campaign against Rommel’s vaunted Afrika Korps, Old Ironsides was sent to Italy, landing at Naples on 28 OCT 1943 to reinforce the Allied push up the peninsula, where it fought the Germans until the final surrender of Axis forces in Italy on 2 MAY 1945.
On 25 AUG 2023, the U.S. Army’s Fort A.P. Hill will be renamed Fort Walker. The post will now honor Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, a Union Army physician and the only woman ever decorated with the Medal of Honor.
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Dr. Walker was a trailblazing figure in American history, becoming a doctor during a time when women were not widely accepted in the physician’s profession and serving her country as the Union Army’s only female surgeon during the Civil War.
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When the Civil War began, Walker offered her services as a surgeon to the Union Army, although they initially rejected her because of her gender and offered her a place as a nurse.
General Ulysses S. Grant, the man who would save the Union and become the greatest general of his time, started his ascent to the pinnacle of American greatness from humble beginnings.
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Born the son of a tanner, Grant’s military career began at West Point in 1839. When the War with Mexico broke out in 1846, then-Lieutenant Grant earned a reputation as an excellent small-unit commander, earning multiple citations for bravery and merit.
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Grant left the Army in 1854, but when President Lincoln called for men to take up arms to suppress the Confederate rebellion in 1861, he answered the nation’s call and rejoined the force.
One of the few battles of the War of 1812 in which U.S. soldiers engaged British regulars on open ground in traditional early-19th century warfare, at Chippewa the young U.S. Army proved its mettle.
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After an American advance into British-controlled Canada led by MG James Wilkinson was checked just north of the border in MAR 1814, MG Jacob Brown led 3,500 American troops across the Niagara River on 3 JUL to seize Fort Erie.
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In subsequent troop maneuvers in the Niagara region on 5 JUL, BG Winfield Scott's brigade of 1,300 men (part of Brown's command), was unexpectedly confronted by a large British force while were preparing for drill.