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All Stories published by War Is Boring on August 18, 2015

Aug 18, 2015

To Help Guide Artillery Rounds, Russia Deploys the Drones

Russia is practicing using small drones help guide artillery rounds. In July, the TASS news agency reported that the Russian army’s Western Military District began fielding Orlan-10 drones “to facilitate timely and accurate…

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Aug 18, 2015

Read Julian Bond’s Comic Book About the Vietnam War

History will remember Julian Bond as a hugely influential civil rights leader and activist. He died on Aug. 15, 2015, leaving behind a legacy as a Georgia politician, the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a chairman of the…

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Aug 18, 2015

The U.S. Marine Corps Just Sent Tanks to Bulgaria

The U.S. Marine Corps now has tanks — along with other armored vehicles and howitzers — at a base in Bulgaria. Take a leap and guess why. Yes, the new task force is all about staring down the Kremlin.

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Aug 18, 2015

First Two Women to Graduate From U.S. Army Ranger School

The first two women to graduate from one of the U.S. Army’s most rigorous training programs will do so on Aug. 21, 2015. They will be the first women to sport Ranger tabs on their uniforms, signifying their completion of the…

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Aug 18, 2015

Sergeant Who Murdered Afghans Was a Racist, Steroid Using ‘Angry Drunk’

In the early morning hours of March 11, 2012, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales walked off his base in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, approached two villages and murdered 16 people — many of them children…

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