Watch the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony on C-SPAN at http://www.c-span.org/video/?324142-1/congressional-gold-medal-ceremony
Posted on 02/03/2015 6:09:17 PM PST by Bender2
Congress awards First Special Service Force with gold medal
BY Matthew Daly, Associated Press
February 3, 2015 at 6:42 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — In 1942, they were lumberjacks, miners, hunters and farmers from the United States and Canada, who came together at a U.S. Army base in Montana.
Within a few months, they were well-trained warriors who went on to become one of deadliest commando units in World War II. Nicknamed the Devil’s Brigade for their fierce tactics and practice of wearing black boot polish on their faces, the unit excelled during nighttime raids that featured mountain climbing, amphibious landings and parachute jumps.
On Tuesday, Congress awarded surviving members of the Devil’s Brigade the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest civilian award. A crowd of about 700, including about 40 living members of the brigade, attended the hour-long ceremony at the Capitol Visitors Center.
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Watch the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony on C-SPAN at http://www.c-span.org/video/?324142-1/congressional-gold-medal-ceremony
We hold them in honor.
Attention to ORDERS!
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Military heroes ping.
Awesome!
Bravo Zulu!
BTTT
Kudos to these American heroes!
Just ordered the movie from my Library. (It’s the ONLY place I don’t b*tch about my tax dollars being spent!)
Looking forward to it!
God Bless these brave men! I seriously MISS men to look up to in this world.
The book was better than the movie. The plan originally was for them to do raids in Norway on skis. Hence the emphasis on physical training. They were never used for that. They ended up in Italy scaling mountains to attack places others could not get to.
Thanks
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