June is Pride Month, and in DVVC s desire to be more diverse in its topics, more equitable in the time we give to issues, and more inclusive of the broad community of veterans, we are delivering a Town Hall entitled LGBTQ Issues in the Veteran Space: A Discussion with Subject Matter Experts on Wednesday, June 2 from 3-415 PM.
Keynote: Kristin Beck, known to be the first female Navy SEAL, distinguished herself in 20 years of exceptionally meritorious service with Special Operations Forces in the SEAL teams (including Seal Team Six), as adviser to SOCOM’s Science Director, and as a special liaison to Department of Defense Rapid Reaction Technology Office where she led many classified projects. While in the military she received numerous awards including a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, and 27 other medals. She is the founder and President of Mindful Valor, a non-profit working with nontraditional methods to relieve trauma and is also a member of the Anti-Gun Violence Task Force amon
They’ll talk about change, about politics, about reform, about corruption, but they will never talk about war unless they mean something happening far away. Because to admit the existence of the war waged against us is to admit that we are combatants, and if we see that we are not fighting back, then we would have to admit that we have surrendered. That we have already been defeated. The Arctic Circle Collective
Hassan al Sabbah, a brilliant Iranian polymath and tactician, founded the Nizari Ismai’li state, a state that flourished from 1090 to 1256 AD in Iran and Syria. This small state relied on a cadre of fearless professional assassins to protect itself from conquests, and to protect co-religionists living elsewhere from massacres.
Where Are the Osama bin Laden Movies?
FILE - In this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004, Osama bin Laden is seen at a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File) The Associated Press
3 May 2021
Sept. 11, 2001, is a date that defines American history, maybe the most impactful day since the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor.
For some reason, storytellers have avoided telling the story of the man who led those attacks. There are only two movies about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden.”
President Biden noted his administration's move to bring troops home from Afghanistan on Sunday as he noted the 10th anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks.In a statement by the White House, the president said that al Qaeda's presence in Afghanistan was "greatly degraded" though Taliban forces that were accused of aiding the terror group at the time of the U.S. invasion still control much of.