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BSG 2023: a rare opportunity to visit the ruins of Connaught Battery
The remains of Connaught’s No 3 Gun emplacement Among the highlights of National Heritage Board’s (NHB) Battle for Singapore (BSG 2023) programme, which runs from 10 February to 5 March 2023 and will feature 30 unique programmes and offer 100 tour runs, will be the rare chance to visit one of the lesser known ruins of Sentosa’s coastal defence batteries, Connaught Battery (Fort Connaught…
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#Battle for Singapore#Battle for Singapore 2023#BSG 2023#Forgotten Places#Guided Tours#Military Heritage#Military History#Military SItes#Second World War#Singapore#World War II#World War Two#WWII Historical Sites
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#spain#spain's defense ministry#military sites#migrants#minor migrants#canary islands#migrant reception centers
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Israeli attack kills at least 14 people in central Syria, according to state media
Israeli attack kills at least 14 people in central Syria, according to state media #casualties #civilians #Hamas
#casualties#civilians#Hamas#Hezbollah#Iran#Israeli airstrikes#Masyaf#military sites#regional tensions#Syria
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Computer room at the Nevada Test Site.
(National Archives)
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Have you heard abt this? Millions of US military emails intended for the US military's ".mil" domain have, for 10 years, been sent to Mali which ends with the ".ml" suffix. Some of the emails reportedly contained sensitive information such as passwords, medical records and the itineraries of top officers. 😁
Yeah I saw that lmao. Most expensive military in world history for ya
#id imagine lots of msgs just woulda been non delivered#unless theres lots of english military relevant site names under the ml tld#even then the users at the enail server would prob b differently named too - so a risk if someone already is targeting ur soldiers#or if the cache is like#kept for rly long#once someone knows you do that tho then u gotta like block that tld from sending except a whitelist
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"More than 800 records of service members who were kicked out of the military under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy were recently upgraded to receive honorable discharges, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday.
“Just over a year ago, I announced that the Department would, for the first time, begin to proactively review the military records of former Service members discharged during ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ because of their sexual orientation who might have been eligible for upgrades to the characterization of their discharge or changes to their reason for separation but had not yet applied,” Austin said. “After a year of exceptional work, the Military Department Review Boards directed relief in 96.8% of the 851 cases that they proactively reviewed.”"
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#destiel meme news#destiel meme#news#united states#us news#us military#armed forces#military#us veterans#look i know we hate the us military on this site but this is a really good thing for queer people#gay rights#queer rights#don't ask don't tell#pentagon#and those soldiers deserve to reap the benefits of their time serving this country#a dishonorable discharge stripped them of their rank and benefits so by changing it these veterans become eligible for all sorts of things#like college grants and housing assistance and healthcare#finally some good fucking news
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Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian's Wall is an impressive masterpiece of military engineering built along steep ups and downs that cross space and history between England and Scotland.
The old wall, sculpted for almost 2000 years by wind and rain, climbs over hills, immerses itself in a moor to suddenly resurface among the blades of light of a wood, a karst presence that seems to absorb the energy of landscape to challenge its gravity and logic in a rollercoaster of harsh ups and downs that cross space and history.
Hadrian's Wall is no longer England but it is not yet Scotland, even if the land to the north seems wilder.
But perhaps it is just a state of mind of those who look at it, subtly altered by the emotion of treading the same stones on which the Roman legionaries walked.
In reality, unlike what many believe, the Wall is within English territory, even if it has helped define the borders of the two countries since the emperor from whom it takes its name ordered its construction in 122 AD to "separate the Romans from the barbarians," the hostile tribes of the Picts who populated today's Scotland, a tough nut to crack even for the Roman legions.
To build it in just six years, about fifteen thousand men were employed, three legions that faced the challenges of a terrain carefully chosen to exploit its advantages.
The result is an impressive masterpiece of military engineering, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, stretching from one coast of England to the other for eighty Roman miles, about one hundred and seventeen kilometers from Solway Firth to the west and Wallsend to the east.
It is one of the many place names linked to its existence and then extending southwards with ports and coastal fortifications.
For nearly three centuries, Hadrian's Wall was northernmost and most fortified boundary of the Roman limes, a gigantic defensive system that stretched for over five thousand kilometres — from the Atlantic coast of Great Britain to the Black Sea across Europe — then continuing through present-day Middle East to Red Sea and from there cutting across North Africa to the Atlantic.
The 117km long (80 Roman miles) Hadrian's Wall was punctuated by 14 main forts, 80 minor ones and 2 watchtowers every third of a mile.
In addition to the actual wall, mainly made of stone, about 5m high and up to 3m thick, becoming six metres thick in the earthen sections, the Wall was reinforced by a ditch bristling with pointed stakes, a military road that connected the forts and allowed any point to be reached quickly and by a deep embankment, the Vallum.
The forts, rectangular in plan, varied in size according to the importance of the garrison, a pattern repeated with slight differences along the entire limes that protected the borders of the empire.
A moat and a wall punctuated by towers protected the perimeter and each side had a gate protected by two massive towers.
Inside were the headquarters — the praetorium where the praefectus castrorum reside; barracks; a hospital; warehouses and latrines, generally under the walls, while the bathrooms were outside the fortifications.
In granary, food supplies were stored to face the harsh winters or possible sieges.
In the Vicus, the civilian settlement, lived the families of the soldiers, often auxiliaries who officially could not marry.
In these villages that grew spontaneously around the forts, merchants, artisans and prostitutes also lived, attracted by the soldiers' wages.
There were also temples dedicated to Roman, local and even oriental deities that reflected the different religions of soldiers from all over the empire because Romans were very tolerant as long as the social order and the emperor were not questioned.
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#Hadrian's Wall#England#Scotland#Emperor Hadrian#Britannia#defensive fortification #stonewall#UNESCO World Heritage Site #British cultural icon#military engineering
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Garrus "The rules at C-Sec annoyed me so I joined the first human Spectre on her mission to hunt down and murder my fellow Turian Saren" Vakarian. Garrus "if the dalatress had offered me the same genocidal deal for the safety of Palavan I probably would have taken it" Vakarian. Garrus "I'm gonna hunt this organ-stealer down and murder him in cold blood. You coming?" Vakarian. Garrus "calibrating weapons of mass destruction is my hobby" Vakarian. Garrus "I was so good at killing mercenaries I accidentally united them into a single, bigger mercenary group, then killed them too" Vakarian. Garrus "the Turians planting a secret bomb on Tuchanka was ingenious" Vakarian. Garrus "the collectors used this base to liquify hundreds of thousands of innocent people into a reaper, but waste not want not" Vakarian. Garrus "You've been hanging out with an anti-alien terrorist group after being dead for two years? Let me just sign up" Vakarian. Garrus "this guy is responsible for the death of my squad. Lure him into a crowded area so I can gun him down in the middle of the Citadel" Vakarian. Garrus -
#I see a lot of Garrus poor little meow meow Vakarian on this site#but let us not forget that this Turian is just as unhinged as Shepherd#if not more so#he went from rogue cop to right-hand turian of a spectre to literal mythical vigilante to military advisor on fighting ancient aliens#ride or die or die and come back and ride once again#mass effect#mass effect 1#mass effect 2#mass effect 3#mass effect legendary#garrus vakarian#mine#mass effect trilogy
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Summer of 1812 LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO
#war of 1812#living history#historical reenactment#historical reenactors#military history#river raisin battlefield national historic site#dressed to kill#summer of 1812
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These leftist revolutionary fetishists are having a field day, cherishing mob rule in the name of ‘revolution,’ ‘power back to the people,’ ‘dictator out,’ and ‘Second Liberation’ rhetoric due to Sheikh Hasina’s ousting from power in Bangladesh. In 1971, during the first liberation, Dhaka’s streets were plagued by lawlessness, and its soil was bloodied red with Hindu lives. Colloquially, this incident is known as the Bangladeshi Genocide, even though most of the victims of rape, brutality, and massacres were Hindu. Unfortunately, the current situation in 2024 doesn’t appear any different. A military coup has been staged in Bangladesh, and I hope that law and order prevail, shielding Bangladeshi Hindus from further tragedy.
#I never thought that military coups could evoke relief out of me#Also why are they always targetting hindu religious sites?#hindublr#hindutva#hinduphobia#bangladeshi hindus#hindustan#maa kali#leftist hypocrisy#south Asian#desiblr
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C H Malan’s Tanglin Oval, a legacy ruined
The invasion of futsal cages across the so-called Tanglin Oval is quite a horrifying sight. Surely, the old Tanglin Barracks cricket ground deserves better, having had a place in history as Singapore’s very first dedicated military sporting ground. Set up by the soldiers of the barracks in 1870, the ground represents the commitment of their commander, Major Charles Hamilton Malan, to maintaining…
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#Another One Bites the Dust#Changing Landscapes#Dempsey Hill#Forgotten Places#Heritage Sites#Historical Sites#Military SItes#Old Places#Singapore#Sports Fields#Tanglin Barracks
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After posting earlier today about the THAAD Battery going to Israel, it’s surprising to me how many didn’t know about “Site 512” which is the only Permanent U.S. Military Installation in Israel.
Site 512, which is operated by the 1st Space Brigade of the U.S. Army and sits atop Mount Har Qeren in Southern Israel, was opened in the Early 2000s by the Bush Administration as a Top Secret Radar Facility featuring less than 100 Soldiers; but since then the Base has received several Expansions, including one in 2017 and one 2023 which constructed enough Barracks Space to house roughly 1,000 Personnel.
Currently around 300 American Service members are stationed at the Base, alongside a AN/TPY-2 Surveillance Transportable Radar and several Early-Warning Systems focused on Iran; in addition, there is believed to be a MIM-104 “Patriot” Surface-to-Air Missile Battery and at least some of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Battery located at the Site.
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▶️ Hezbollah resistance forces target the Israeli military site on the Lebanese-Palestinian border.
#▶️ Hezbollah resistance forces target the Israeli military site on the Lebanese-Palestinian border.#hezbollah#the resistance#resistance#israel is a terrorist state#israel is committing genocide#israeli war crimes#israel is an apartheid state#israeli terrorism#israeli#israel#israhell#lebanese#lebanon#palestine#palestinian genocide#palestinian lives matter#palestinian resistance#justice for palestinians#save palestinians#palestinians#free palestine#freepalastine🇵🇸#videos#video#gaza strip#gaza genocide#free gaza#gazaunderattack#gaza
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Camera bunker at Trinity Site, New Mexico, where the world's first nuclear weapon was detonated. (Library of Congress)
#history#trinity site#architecture#oppenheimer#bunker#military history#new mexico#desert#ruins#cinematography#manhattan project
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Friendly reminder that while this is a history blog we do not support historical values here :)) bigots can and will be blocked :))))
#I’ve realized running a history blog (esp a military history blog) is always kind of a risk#for this kind of stuff#but this is tumblr#the gay transgender site#I’m surprised any of these people end up following me considering I literally have ‘he/she/they’ in my bio#this is your captain speaking
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circassians who join the iof piss me off even MORE than settlers tbh. they literally had 97% of their population systematically genocided/expelled from their homeland and had been living peacefully as a minority community in the levant for almost a century until a bunch of violent racial supremacists come along and start doing the exact same thing that happened to them and they're like '"fuck you, i got mine". isr*elis see you guys as second class citizens and only keep you around to tokenize and use as an example of "good, NON ARAB m*zzies" and yet you serve them like DOGS!
#you're no better than the ones who join the r*ssian military and post Z Z Z all the time#i would quote malcolm x's thing abt black people who identify with the oppressor but it's REALLY not my place to say that!#starting niche discourse again letsgo#reblog this so that the 3 people on this site who know what im talking about will see it
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