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Gen. on Afghanistan: We need more troops

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan told lawmakers he needs several thousand additional troops to break “a stalemate� in the 15-year-old war against the Taliban and other terrorist organizations.

Army Gen. John Nicholson told the Senate Armed Services Committee that more troops could come from the United States or other NATO nations and would be tasked with training Afghanistan’s military and police forces to provide better offensive capabilities in the fight that the Afghans have led since the beginning of 2015. “I have adequate resources in my counterterrorism mission,� said Nicholson, who leads the NATO training mission and the U.S. counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan. “In my train, advise and assist mission, we have a shortfall of a few thousand.�

The general did not specify how many additional troops he needs. He told Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., he did not need 50,000 NATO troops in the country, but he did not rule out the potential for up to 30,000. “Sir, that’s a conversation I’d need to have with my chain of command,� Nichoolson told Graham during the hearing.

There are about 8,400 American troops in Afghanistan now supporting the NATO and counterterrorism missions. Thirty-eight additional NATO countries provide about 6,300 troops to the mission, according to NATO.

Missing drone found 600 miles away DENVER — An Army drone that disappeared on a training flight in southern Arizona has been found about 600 miles away in Colorado, and the military is trying to figure out how it got there.

Officials at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., say a hiker found the $1.5 million Shadow drone stuck in a tree in the mountains west of Denver on Feb. 9. It was missing a wing. Soldiers lost contact with the drone at Fort Huachuca nine days DEBRIEF, continued on Page 10

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A CASE FOR LENIENCY Lt. Clint Lorance should be free

By Sean Parnell The Hill

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onald Trump’s election victory was fueled in part by a boost from active military personnel and veterans, who supported him by a two-to-one margin over his opponent.

Those who have borne the heaviest burdens in our recent wars placed their trust in the Republican candidate. President Trump has gotten off to a good start in repaying that trust through such moves as appointing Gen. James Mattis, a proven Marine veteran and respected military leader, to head the Pentagon.

He could take a further step in that direction by using his presidential clemency powers to pardon U.S. Army Lt. Clint Lorance.

In July 2012, Lorance found himself newly installed as the leader of a combat platoon in Afghanistan. Just three days into his tenure, three Afghan men on a single motorcycle approached his platoon’s position. A rifleman called out the threat and fired, but missed. Based on the rifleman’s threat assessment, Lorance ra-

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dioed troops stationed in an nearby watch position to open fire. Two of the Afghan men were killed, while the third escaped.

Were they innocent civilians, or enemy combatants? Could they have been suicide bombers? Could they have been conducting surveillance of the position for a later attack? Such uncertainty is common in a combat zone. But Lorance’s story had an uncommon outcome.

Army officials claimed the killed men were civilians, accusing the lieutenant of violating the rules of engagement.

Lorance faced a court martial on charges of second-degree murder. He was found guilty in August 2013 and is now serving a 19-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. There are multiple ambiguities in Lorance’s case. His attorney suggests the prosecution withheld evidence showing the killed men were linked to the insurgency, since their fingerprints were found on explosive components. Had that information been admitted at the trial, he says, his client likely would have been exculpated.

Further complicating the story is that members of Lorance’s platoon testified

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against him. In their opinions, the new lieutenant was reckless, overly aggressive and showed poor judgment. While several of those who testified against Lorance were granted immunity from prosecution in the case, that by no means is to suggest they were misrepresenting how they understood the situation.

It’s this last point that troubles me in Lorance’s case: how everyone involved may have interpreted (or misinterpreted) what happened.

Those who have served in uniform — and I speak both from my own experience leading a platoon in Afghanistan and from talking to other veterans — will tell you that functioning in a combat zone requires rapid decision-making in situations with low or poor information. Making the wrong call can be dangerous for an officer and his men — or deadly.

That difficulty is even more acute in environments like Afghanistan or Iraq, where the enemy wears no uniform and can readily blend in with civilian populations. (If you’ve seen the film “American Sniper,� you’ve glimpsed the intense chalLORANCE, continued on Page 10

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Kyle Schmid says his role as Alex Caulder on History’s “SIX� allowed him to look at life from a different perspective. The program airs Thursdays.

PLAYING A SEAL CHANGED ACTOR’S LIFE

Schmid: ‘It’s a pretty good way to be living’

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hen actor Kyle Schmid landed a role playing one of America’s most elite commandos in the new History drama “SIX,� he knew critics would be looking for every flaw in his portrayal — no matter how small.

Seriously? It was the elite operators from SEAL Team 6 that executed the daring raid that killed terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. And a Canadian-born actor who’d never played a role like this was supposed to pull off a convincing performance of one of the world’s best warriors?

It was a daunting task, but one Schmid took very seriously. “The entire reason we did this show, and why we all wanted to do it so badly, is we

wanted to do something that had integrity at the end of the day,� Schmid said. “It’s incredibly important to get all those little things right.� “We’ll be under the microscope of anyone that’s been in the military who served and is going to pick out the little things that we do wrong — that’s just going to happen,� he added. “But we tried our damnedest to do everything right as we possibly could — we spent a lot of time and energy doing that.� “SIX� is a new drama series produced by the History cable channel that takes a deep look into what it’s like to be a member of one of the world’s most elite military units. The show goes well beyond a shootem-up (though there’s plenty of door kicking and explosive entries to satisfy any action junky) and explores the toll the high OPTEMPO job of a DevGru operator takes on personal relationships.

What’s more, “SIX� tackles some of the ethical issues these commandos face on

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each and every mission, and explores how the elite team members deal with lapses of judgment and tactics among themselves.

Schmid plays SEAL Team 6 operator Alex Caulder, a seemingly free-spirit sailor who’d rather be chasing skirts and riding tubes than jumping out of airplanes and shooting bad guys. But under the hedonistic exterior, the unit’s “point man� is warrior philosopher, acting as his team’s conscience when ops go bad. “I’ve always been a morally driven and ethical person as a human being,� Schmid said, adding he used the help of military consultants and his own personality to “get in Caulder’s head.� “It’s all about the choices you make in your life and whether you’re able to stand behind them with the integrity that you want to,� Schmid said. “There’s a joke the guys were saying on set: ‘You’re too Caulder for Caulder,’�

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Have the popcorn ready but can’t decide between that period piece depicting World War II heroics or a sci-fi thriller featuring zombie-induced mayhem?

Problem solved. Eventually.

Entertainment industry magazine Variety reports that the upcoming Paramount/Bad Robot-produced film “Overlord� will blend the genres, featuring paratroopers who expected to fight Nazis as they descended into occupied France during the D-Day invasion, only to find a new adversary that likely wasn’t covered during any training exercises.

The report doesn’t mention zombies specifically, labeling the foes as “supernatural forces.� A 2014 report on the project

by The Tracking Board, another industry news site, ties the undead to the project.

Also tied to the project, per Variety: Julius Avery, who directed Ewan McGregor in 2014’s “Son of a Gun,� and Billy Ray, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter whose credits include adapting “Captain Phillips� and “The Hunger Games� for the big screen.

Paramount acquired the project in 2007, Variety reports, with Bad Robot’s JJ Abrams, a force behind both the rebooted Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, part of the development process.

It may be the first big-ticket studio production featuring Nazi zombies, but it’s not a new concept: The Norwegianproduced “Dead Snow� debuted in 2009 and has since spawned a sequel. And fans of the Wolfenstein video-game series have experience slaying undead Third Reich members.

No casting announcements for “Overlord� have been made, and no release date has been set. Fans of more period-accurate cinema may find something more to their taste in “Atlantic Wall,� another film reportedly featuring a World War II paratrooper behind enemy lines — one played

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Fox News Anchor Bret Baier’s new book chronicles President Eisenhower’s advice to the nation and President-elect Kennedy during his last days in office.

‘THREE DAYS IN JANUARY’

New book explores Ike’s final mission

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public up in its wave,� Baier said. “People were persuaded that Eisenhower was nothing more than a historical artifact.�

The book also compares Eisenhower to America’s first president, George Washington. They shared the same qualities of being good listeners, reflective, confident, persuasive and understanding the larger picture.

They “were kindred spirits,� Baier said. “Both were generals who did not seek out the public limelight, but eventually chose to run for president. They wanted to empower people.

What Washington expressed in his farewell address resonated with Eisenhower, the need to protect the freedoms of Americans.�

He describes the similarities between past and present candidates: “Both are outsiders, non-politicians. In fact, Eisenhower was the last one before Trump. They are unconventional Republicans, despise labels, despise political ideology, and operated out of patriotic feelings.

The difference is in tone, tenor and how they communicate.�

Eisenhower favored practical tacticians, a matter of getting people who could get things done. Sound familiar? “I describe in the book how Eisenhower had picked a cabinet of eight millionaires and a plumber, the Secretary of Labor

hree Days In January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission� by Bret Baier is a very informative book. Readers learn about the time, not by being pounded over the head with facts and figures, but through the personalities themselves. The issues discussed in the book come right out of today’s headlines.

Mr. Baier is the chief political anchor for Fox News Channel and the anchor and executive editor of “Special Report with Bret Baier.� What is fascinating is how he takes readers on a journey of the time period between Eisenhower’s last days in office and John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. The book also reflects on the influences in his life from growing up in Kansas to the being supreme commander during World War II to the election of 1952.

The book opens with a meeting on Dec. 6, 1960, between outgoing President Eisenhower and the President-elect JFK. Thinking Kennedy too green, he dismissed the younger Kennedy as ineffective. JFK with his charm, young family and ready to implement the New Frontier was the direct opposite of the older and less flamboyant Dwight Eisenhower. “The media storm around Kennedy was THREE DAYS, continued on Page 10 so effective and biased it swept the general 'PS BEWFSUJTJOH JOGPSNBUJPO DBMM t BEWFSUJTJOH!NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN

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Rivers to Kerr: Get players to love you Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers offered Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr some help on how to handle his duties in charge of the Western Conference in Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game. “I made sure they loved me, the other ones,� Rivers said, alluding to players from other teams, per ESPN.com. “I knew my guys liked me. That was not my concern.�

Rivers’ comments come as Kerr will have to determine how to handle having Germaine de Randamie, right, defeated Holly Holm via unanimous decision to become the first women’s featherweight champion at UDC 208.

Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook on the same team.

The relationship between the two stars has deteObviously, Holm takes responsibility for riorated after DuWhen UFC 208 came to a close, Ger- do when I had her on the cage. But as far rant signed with maine de Randamie was crowned the first as controlling the pace and controlling the not defending herself in those moments the Warriors. women’s featherweight champion in pro- fight, so yeah the fight could have gone ei- but at the same time believes de Randamie should have been penalized for the infracWestbrook has motion history much to the chagrin of her ther way. “I felt like I had three rounds. I also had tion yet the referee did nothing more than thrown some opponent Holly Holm. passive-aggresThe two new 145-pounders battled back her rocked twice and didn’t capitalize on it warn her after the second offense. “A lot of times with the first one they sive jabs at his and forth over 25 minutes, but ultimately and that’s my own fault.�

Holm also had reason to complain after give a warning. That’s kind of normal. I former team- The Warriors’ Steve Kerr it was de Randamie who edged out a demate, including will coach the Western cision over Holm, who dropped her third de Randamie twice hit her after the horn wouldn’t expect them to take a point after the first one, even though it was intenposting a photo Conference in the NBA straight bout since beating Ronda Rousey sounded to signify the end of round.

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4, when Durant After the fight was over, Holm felt like the second round saw de Randamie slug at that point they’d do something but I’m officially joined Golden State. He she did enough over at least three rounds Holm with one of the hardest shots she one of those people that feels I should not also wore a photographer’s vest prito earn the victory, although she was criti- landed all night as the former women’s have let her done it anyway. Yes, it’s afor to the Oklahoma City Thunder’s cal of her performance after not pulling the bantamweight champion was clearly stag- ter the bell, I heard the bell, I stopped. It wasn’t like the last punch of a combination first game against the Warriors in trigger at certain moment to take advan- gered afterwards.

The second set of punches came at the when the bell rang. Like it was intentional, November, which many thought to tage of de Randamie in a prone position. be a reference to Durant’s passion “I felt like she started a little strong tail end of the third round when Holm it was after the bell,� Holm said. “Those for photography. and I thought I had the better of her the had de Randamie hurt with a head kick, were some of her best shots of the whole The two renewed hostilities upon Dulast three rounds,� Holm said at the post but the former kickboxing champion night after the bell and I don’t know how rant’s return to Oklahoma City on Satfight press conference. “I had her dropped fired back with a combination of her own the judges saw that. “If they see that as points for her then urday night. twice. I know what my capabilities are, I that ended with a flurry after the horn what can you do? It’s like I should have Rivers said when he coached the didn’t do as much damage as I wanted to once again. kept fighting, too.�

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ALL ABOUT SPORTS: MARINE COACHES MIRAMAR’S YOUTH

By Pfc. Liah Kitchen 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing

A group of girls, ranging from 11- to 14-years-old, trickled into the Semper Fit gym aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California with their parents.

A young woman with short, curly, red hair and a smile on her face, greeted them as they arrived.

She introduced herself as their new volleyball coach.

Lance Cpl. Daphne Patterson, a meteorological analyst and forecaster with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron aboard MCAS Miramar, made time to volunteer despite the constraints of her job during the volleyball and soccer seasons.

Patterson works approximately 72 hours a week at MCAS Miramar’s Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) facility, which informs 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing pilots about current weather situations enabling them to successfully and safely complete flight missions. “Because we are a regional METOC center, we are responsible for the outlying air stations of 3rd MAW,� said Patterson. “Someone has to be on shift at all times, so we work 24 hours on shift, and then 48 hours off shift.�

Despite working long hours, Patterson volunteered her time at the Miramar Youth and Teen Center and coached vol-

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leyball and soccer for the Youth Sports Program. “She’s very dependable; the parents love her and the kids love her,� said Sharon Jones, Youth Sports Manager aboard MCAS Miramar. “She is very dedicated

to what she is doing and worked hard to teach the kids everything she knew.�

According to Jones, Patterson’s work with the Youth Sports program provided the children of military families with the development of physical, social, emotional

and cognitive skills. “When I coached volleyball, I coached 11 to 14-year-olds, and to me that’s the age where girls start to be affected by what’s in the media; they start to think they aren’t beautiful,� said Patterson. “That’s the age where school gets harder and life gets a lot more confusing. I just wanted to be a positive role model for those girls — to let them know they have someone on their side.�

Despite not playing sports much growing up, Patterson coached because she loves kids. “You can really tell she’s here for the kids,� said Jones. “She comes out because she has a lot of fun and she enjoys being here.�

In addition to coaching, Patterson also volunteered with other organizations such as MCAS Miramar’s Single Marine Program and Toys for Tots. Her love of volunteering started when she was in high school. “I think I have time to give rather than donating a bunch of money to a charity,� said Patterson. “If you show up as a group of Marines to volunteer, and you work hard to get the job done, that can improve the outside community’s view of the local Marines and Marines in general.�

According to Patterson, coaching has given her more confidence as a leader and she plans to continue coaching.

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t President Nixon makes an eight-day visit to the People’s Republic of China on Feb. 21 and meets with Mao Zedong. t The U.S. returns Okinawa to Japan after 27 years of occupation May 15. t A Red Army Faction bomb explodes at the U.S. Army Supreme European Command in Heidelberg, West Germany, on May 24, killing three U.S. soldiers. t President Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev sign the Salt I treaty May 26 in Moscow. t AP photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of 9-yearold Phan Thi Kim Phuc running after

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At the end of 2016, the Marine Corps had 1,065 aircraft on flight lines around the world, ranging from small attack helicopters to C-130 transport planes.

Of those, only 439 are considered ready to fly as is. The remaining aircraft, nearly 60 percent of the total, are considered temporarily non-mission capable, either awaiting maintenance, in-service repair or supply, meaning they are lacking the parts they need to be operational.

And as the Corps works to claw back readiness and increase pilot flight hours from postwar lows in 2014, it’s the spare parts issue that has the service’s top aviator most concerned.

Speaking to reporters, Lt. Gen. Jon “Dog� Davis, deputy commandant for aviation, said aircraft maintainers are still sometimes resorting to cannibalization, or borrowing parts from working aircraft to make other planes operational.

He made his concern clear in a wish list to Congress that each service recently submitted in anticipation of a forthcoming

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supplemental defense budget for this year. “On my unfunded priority list, one of the biggest things we’ve been banging the drum about is the need to refill our coffers on our supply parts,� he said. “It’s a big problem both for the new airplanes and the old ones.�

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fighters, rotorcraft and transports, the problem is universal. “The one thing that is holding the man down on every platform is not-missioncapable supply,� Davis said. “By every type/ model/series, it’s a contributor to why that airplane might not be available for flying.�

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of the number of ready basic aircraft it needs to allow all aviators to meet their flight hour goals, a key requirement for both proficiency and safety.

The Marine Corps Hornet community, which sustained seven crashes in the last fifteen months with three pilot fatalities, is about 20 aircraft shy of what it needs to make flight hour goals, with 72 ready basic aircraft out of the 171 in reporting, Davis said.

While the aircraft readiness crisis has had minimal impact on deployments and forward operations up until now, the Corps did recently pull half its MV-22 Ospreys back from its forward-deployed crisis response task force for Africa, reducing the presence in theater from 12 aircraft to six. “We couldn’t sustain them,� Assistant Commandant Gen. Glenn Walters told lawmakers in a hearing this week. “The requirement was still there, but we couldn’t sustain it.�

Davis said the Marine Corps is on track to make pilot flight hour goals by 2019.

It will be the first time the service has hit that marker since 2012. “If I’m a businessman, I’m underwater right now, because I don’t have enough power tools to make my flight hour goal,� he said.

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By Petty Officer 2nd Class Jerome Johnson Defense Media Activity Forward Center – Pacific

FORD ISLAND, Hawaii – Imagine going into war abroad coming under a hail of enemy fire to fight against fascism in Europe and returning home to battle for your own democratic freedoms. This was the reality for Col. Charles McGee and other minorities during World War II. In 1942 McGee joined the Army and signed up for a pilot slot in an experimental program located at Tuskegee Army Airfield, which allowed African-Americans to train to become airmen for the first time in U.S. history. “Well, at the time I hadn’t thought about it like oh we’ll go down Tuskegee and set the world on fire. It was just a matter of being able to participate and certainly, for me, it was a joy to be on the flying side of things,� said McGee. I enjoyed doing that and that’s what I’d like to pass on. I think it’s every citizen’s right and certainly a responsibility to serve the country in one way or another, and I think going forward that helps preserve the freedoms we so much enjoy.�

Prior to World War II minorities were only allowed to perform service type jobs. McGee recalls a 1925 Army War College Report titled “The Use of Negro Manpower in War�, which made assumptions about African Americans capacity to serve in the military.

as McGee described ‘The Negro is by “treated like secnature subservient ond-class citizens.� and believes him“Well, the chalself to be inferior to lenge pretty much the white man. He at the time was beis most susceptible ing accepted based to the influence of on our ability and crowd psychology,� so on rather than said McGee. ‘He the fact that there cannot control himwere those who felt self in the face of we didn’t have the danger to the extent brain power or the the white man can. fortitude to particiHe has not the inipate in a successful tiative and resourceway,� said McGee fulness of the white However, McGee man. He is mentally and his unit quickly inferior to the white gained notoriety man’, McGee said. through their suc“This report said cessful long-range because of physical bomber escort misqualification and of Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Charles McGee sits with his sions. Their flawcourse that meant son, Ronald McGee, during a Hangar Talk at the Pacific service you know dig Aviation Museum, Ford Island, Hawaii, Feb. 3. | Photo by less execution of their mission earned ditches, cook food, Petty Officer 2nd Class Aiyana S. Paschal them the respect drive trucks, but dofrom the white bomber crews and made ing anything technical impossible.�

McGee Graduated flight school on June them a formidable adversary to the German 30, 1943, and was assigned to an all-black Luftwaffe pilots. By the end of 1944, McGee squadron called 332nd Fighter Group had 137 combat missions under his belt. “Fortunately once given the opportunity in Naples, Italy. Although the men and women of the squadron landed their shot we were able to disprove that because it’s at serving as airmen, they were still seg- all about first, having an education and regated from their white counterparts and developing a talent and found out we

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McGee is committed to passing down the first-hand experience of history to future generations. “I enjoy talking to students and enjoy getting their questions and answers because I realize the value of the lessons that sustained us if you will through those periods that we don’t want to be repeated in many ways are still important for their growing up and taking part in the future of our country,� said McGee. So it’s always a pleasure to talk to students and hopefully get them to realize that they are the future of their country and so their attitudes are all very important.�

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Officials say the 450-pound drone has a 20-foot wingspan and can fly for eight or nine hours with a short-range of 134 miles.

Martin Durkin,� Baier said. “He also chose as his secretary of defense, Charlie Wilson, the former CEO of General Motors, and businessman George Humphrey as secretary of the treasury. The one contrast was that he did not have any other military people in the cabinet, other than himself.�

Baier explained that the reason for not having any other military people was that “he did not want it to look like a take over of the military or a war cabinet. He was a man who craved peace.�

It seems that the former president would agree that anyone who has been to war himself knows what it is like. They are probably the most reluctant to send troops into war.

This book shows how Eisenhower in his Farewell Address wanted to provide a blueprint on where America Bret Baier should be headed and a warning to President-elect Kennedy. “I wrote the dedication of the book to my sons, hoping they and their generation would allow history to inform their decisions in the future,â€? Baier said. “For example, the Cold War, when he attempted to soften the hard line with Russia. He wanted to reduce the inflammatory rhetoric constantly tempering his words about common values built from within rather than based on abhorrence of the other. “Yet, he was not naĂŻve, and felt we should have our eyes wide open. The advice he gave to Kennedy could apply to Donald Trump today. ‘Don’t go to any meeting with the Russians too early; get your sea legs first. Otherwise you will be eaten alive.’â€?

Baier summarizes the speech by describing Eisenhower as “a whistle-blower.� “He strove a balance between military strength and domestic needs,� the author said. “If America should get involved in a crisis, we should use overwhelming force, but there is no need to get involved everywhere in the world. Future presidents should have a balance, listening to dissenting views, and work in a bipartisan way to get things done.�

This is a masterful piece of history in the understanding of President Eisenhower. It is a gripping read with a lot of detailed facts that are both interesting and informative — but definitely not boring.

College for downrange troops to continue The Defense Department has awarded the University of Maryland University College a $16.2 million contract to continue delivering educational services to U.S. troops serving in the Middle East and Africa, the school said.

The 54-month contract calls for UMUC to provide instructional undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs for the Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard in the U.S. Central Command and in the U.S. Africa Command areas of responsibility, according to the DOD. The university will offer instruction at various downrange locations, including Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon said.

Students at those locations will have access to on-site and online courses, as well as testing services, UMUC said in a statement.

The contract extends through the 2020-21 academic year.

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But Caulder is more than a thinker — he’s one of the SEAL team’s best assaulters, flowing through rooms and popping up on tangos like he was born to it. And it’s no accident that the action looks so good on the screen.

Working with tactical trainer and former SEAL Mitch Hall of Trident Focus, the actors on “SIX� spent two weeks learning how to shoot and move like real-world operators.

Schmid recalled that in one of the fight scenes in the first episode, “as point man, I’m pieing these corners and I’ve got my feet wrong and I’m still trying to gauge the depth with my MP7 around the corner so I’m not sticking my head out and getting it blown off and I asked Mitch, ‘let’s do it again to get it right.’�

It was an intensive course that Schmid took seriously, even taking days off to work at the range and practice his tactics. And when the filming was done for History’s “SIX,â€? the actor emerged a changed man. “This (role) really allowed me to look at life from a different perspective. I learned to turn down my dial — to realize what was important and what was worth worrying about,â€? Schmid says. “On the other side ‌ I’m much more aware of my surroundings, constantly living in the ‘yellow’ — and I gotta tell you, it’s a pretty good way to be living.â€? “SIXâ€? runs for eight episodes and airs on Thursdays.

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lenge of making those distinctions under pressure, and the moral quandaries such decisions pose.)

We don’t know what went through Lorance’s mind at the time. He was new to the platoon, having arrived just a few days before. Is it possible his call was a mistake rooted in inexperience, or poor training, or trying too hard to appear “tough� in front of the men under his command?

Or was his call based upon fear?

There’s no shame in that. Most of us would find that being thrown into an unfamiliar leadership situation, particularly in a high-stakes combat environment in which the enemy is often invisible, means learning to overcome fear, anxiety and stress.

We do know Lorance’s command was in a hot zone where the Taliban insurgency was active. He was well aware the platoon had already sustained casualties — in fact, the man he replaced had been seriously wounded by an improvised explosive device. If he was overly aggressive, it may have been a natural, though miscalibrated, response to a dangerous environment.

I have no way of knowing for certain if Lorance made the right call. That uncertainty squares with my own experience in Afghanistan.

As a young officer, I was learning every day on the job. Luckily, I had a team of experienced non-commissioned officers under my command from whom I could learn, helping me develop into a more effective and judicious combat leader. But it’s easy to imagine a scenario in which I might have made a wrong

Finn (DDG 113) from Huntington Ingalls Industries in December 2016.

The destroyer honors Sgt. Rafael Peralta, one of the most heralded Marines from 2004’s Battle of Fallujah. In November 2010, Peralta pulled a grenade tossed by insurgents towards himself and absorbed most of the blast with his body, thus saving the lives of two fellow marines. He was mortally wounded from the grenade blast. Future USS Rafael Peralta will officially join the fleet during a commissioning ceremony in San Diego later this year. call in a situation similar to the one that Clint Lorance faced.

Another recent development further underscores the need for leniency in Lorance’s case. In January, outgoing President Obama commuted the sentence of U.S. Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, who had released classified military documents to WikiLeaks. Manning’s actions endangered U.S. military personnel, as well as Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who had worked with us.

If a soldier who’s committed a crime as consequential as Manning’s can walk free — and remember, there is no question at all about Manning’s guilt — then surely an officer who erred in combat, though tragically, is owed the benefit of a doubt. There’s enough murkiness surrounding Lorance’s case to suggest that benefit of a doubt is deserved.

Lorance may or may not be a hero in your eyes — but I do not believe he’s a murderer or war criminal. My strong sense is that he was a young officer who very well might have made a wrong call, and who’s now paid for that mistake with several years of his life in prison.

Two decades in prison is an unjust penalty for a mistake.

A standard of mercy and leniency should prevail. President Trump has the power to set this right by issuing a full pardon for Lt. Clint Lorance. It would be a positive step in cementing trust with service personnel and veterans — and it’s the right thing to do.

Parnell is a retired U.S. Army infantry captain who served in Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division. He is the author of the national bestseller “Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan.�

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With extraordinary strength, he leaped ways took her Bible along with her.

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