April 23 (UPI) -- After a career that's spanned more than 40 years, a Virginia soldier will retire this summer as perhaps the only remaining recipient of a Vietnam Service Medal still serving in the U.S. military.
U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Victor T. Wright entered the military in 1974 at age 17 as a way to "see the world" and get an education. Now 61, he will retire Aug. 31 after a career that included stints in both the Army and Navy, five enlistments and six deployments. His final post, as a senior aviation maintenance instructor in the Army's 128th Aviation Brigade, is at Fort Eustis, Va.
Wright has served a role in virtually every major conflict of his lifetime -- Vietnam, Gulf Wars I and II and Kosovo -- and tours in the Pacific theater, Indian Ocean, Kenya and Korea.
In fact, he may be the sole remaining active duty Vietnam veteran, according to military officials.
In June 2015, the Marine Corps Times wrote a story about Michael Jarnevic, a Green Beret considered the last person in uniform whose service record includes a tour in Vietnam. He retired the following month.
After Wright read the story, he called editors of the magazine to let them know there's at least one more.
"We're not 100 percent sure, but it's very likely he is the last one," Capt. Jeremy Stoddard said. "We've been trying to figure this out for years. It's very unlikely anyone would have been in the service that long, for 40-plus years."
Video at link. See if you can spot any clues the vaunted NYPD might have missed. NYPD On The Hunt After Orthodox Jewish Man Attacked In Brooklyn
Victim Jumped On Way Home From Synagogue, Told 'You Don’t Need Help. I’m Going To Kill You Right Here'
There have been two recent attacks against Orthodox Jewish men in Brooklyn.
In the latest one, the victim was approached by a stranger and choked on the street, CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reported Sunday night.
Surveillance video shows the suspect running down the street and tackling another man. He then forces him against a fence, choking and punching him.
The victim, an Orthodox Jewish man, was left with a black eye, a broken rib and scratches on his neck and back. He didn’t want to give his name, but he said he was walking home from his synagogue on Saturday afternoon near Rutland Road and Schenectady Avenue when he said hi to a stranger who then got very angry.
"I turned around and I see that he’s right behind me and he jumped me. And then he said ’I hate Jews,'" the victim said. "I greeted him hello. Next thing I know he said ’I don’t like Jews. Who were you talking to?’ He put me in a headlock and I’m trying to maneuver out of him. In the meantime, I’m screaming ’Help! Help! Help! Help!’ He says, ’You don’t need help. I’m going to kill you right here.'"
Luckily, two people passing by minutes later pulled the suspect off and held him back, helping the victim escape.
The video shows the victim going into a neighbor’s yard to retrieve his hat and glasses. The suspect continues to stalk him as the two good Samaritans keep him back.
"Two nurses came. Medical, wearing white. Male and female," the victim said.
Since the assault police have been monitoring the neighborhood. The victim’s family said despite the increased security they’re now scared to go out on the street.
"There’s fear. There’s a lot of fear. The thing we know is that, unfortunately, there are people out there who want to kill us for one reason ‐ because we are a Jew," the victim’s wife said.
This is the second time this week a Jewish man has been targeted. An April 14, a 42-year-old man was assaulted on the 600 block of Eastern Parkway just after midnight, punched in the face repeatedly. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit is investigating both incidents. It has yet to determine if the attacks are connected.
The Anti-Defamation League is offering a $5,000 reward for any information leading to the arrests of the individuals responsible.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ‐ Penn State University says it has banned its near-century-old outdoor recreation club from going outside because it is too dangerous out in the wilderness.
The 98-year-old Penn State Outing Club announced last week that the university will no longer allow the club to organize outdoor, student-led trips starting next semester. The university's offices of Student Affairs and Risk Management made the determination that the hiking, camping and other outdoors-focused activities the student-led club has long engaged in are too risky.
The Outing Club's current president Richard Waltz tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the decision wasn't an open dialogue and they weren't briefed on the determination.
A Penn State spokeswoman says student safety is the school's primary focus. Two other outdoor recreation clubs also have been directed to end trip offerings.
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The university's offices of Student Affairs and Risk Management made the determination that the hiking, camping and other outdoors-focused activities the student-led club has long engaged in are too risky.
So, instead they'll bus them to Baltimore one night and release them in the hood. Empathy, training don't you know. (BTW, if Penn State has a ROTC detachment, better to just shut it down)
[All Africa] In the month that India donated US$1 million to help feed starving children in Swaziland, King Mswati III, the kingdom's absolute monarch, wore a suit of diamonds weighing 6 kg and received a cake with 52 layers at his birthday party attended by 700 guests.
A few days earlier he received his second private jet that after VIP upgrading might have cost US$30 million.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... seven in ten of his 1.1 million subjects live in abject poverty with incomes less than US$2 per day and 640,000 of them in need of food.
The Observer on Saturday, a newspaper in Swaziland in effect owned by the King, reported (21 April 2018) the cake was 'fit for a King'.
It reported, 'The cake comprised of 52 layers and it was white and gold and part of the decoration on it was the silver number 50.' It had been baked by a South African company.
The Observer also reported the King wore a blue suit that weighed 6 kg (13 lbs) and took eight months to make.
'It was hand made and beaded with diamonds,' it reported.
The King threw a garden party for 700 guests, including the President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen, and the Vice-President of Equatorial Guinea, Theodore Nguema Obiang Mangue, it added.
The King marked his birthday while more than one in three of his subjects were kept alive by international food aid. The World Food Program has reported 350,000 people are in need of emergency food assistance, with 640,000 potentially affected by some degree of food insecurity at the peak of the lean season.
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... It's good to be the King.
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Now that there's a Red Pope, TuTu's superfluous. Now that there's a Red Pope, the Catholic Church is going to go the way of the Episcopalians. Just watch. No offense to any old-school Catholics out there...
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I don't know... weren't some of the early popes much worse. Wasn't there one who like to dilly his own daughter? Now that's a pope the left would love wholeheartedly... Point is the church can sustain a 'bad' pope or two... And no, I'm not Catholic so this may be all heresay.
[Free Beacon] Executives at Mylan N.V., the pharmaceutical company that drew controversy for increasing the price of EpiPen devices nearly 400 percent, donated heavily to Democratic senator Joe Manchin's reelection campaign as the company planned to lay off more than 400 workers in his home state of West Virginia.
Mylan‐whose CEO, Heather Bresch, is Manchin's daughter‐announced Friday that it will lay off 15 percent of the workforce at its manufacturing plant in Morgantown, W.Va. The plant, one of about 50 that Mylan has around the world, employs upwards of 3,000 West Virginians and is one of the state's largest employers.
The majority of the layoffs will occur in the plant's operations division, which consists largely of hourly-waged workers. Mylan has confirmed that some of the employees will have recall rights, meaning they can potentially return to work after a specified amount of time if the company chooses to expand, while others will be offered buyout packages.
In a statement provided to the Washington Free Beacon, Mylan blamed the changing pharmaceutical industry and evolving "regulatory expectations" for forcing the company to downsize its Morgantown plant.
[DAWN] FAISALABAD: A teacher of Govt Boys Primary School, Chak 34-JB, was nabbed Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for torturing a seven-year-old child publicly and hitting a man with a hammer who tried to save the victim.
The Sandal Bar police took the suspect, identified as Zeeshan, into custody and sent the child, Shahzeb, and the man, Shoaib Mukhtar, to hospital for their medical examination.
Mukhtar told the police that he was passing by the school when he saw Zeeshan holding the student from his leg and hanging him upside down. The teacher got infuriated when he had asked him to refrain from torturing the boy, he said and added that Zeeshan went inside the classroom and turned up with a hammer. Zeeshan first attacked Shahzeb with the hammer and then he hit me with the same tool, he said and added that hearing the hue and cry more people gathered who intervened, rescued them and pacified Zeeshan.
Mukhtar has a wound on his back and the boy has some bruises on different body parts.
The arrested teacher started weeping at the cop shoppe when the news hounds asked him why he had subjected the boy to torture.
An education department official said Zeeshan was facing psychological issues and the incident would be reported to the higher authorities for further action.
The education officer said Zeeshan had been serving at the school for the last eight months and his medical examination had been conducted prior to his induction as a teacher. He said the department had received no earlier complaints against the teacher.
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[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: More women registered as voters than men during the registration campaign in the two National Assembly constituencies of Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... for the forthcoming general elections.
Eligible female voters from NA-45 (Bara) showed more keenness to exercise their democratic right of voting by registering themselves in a larger number than male voters in the same constituency.
According to official record obtained from the Election Commission of Pakistain, Khyber Agency offices, 52,585 new female voters were registered in the voter registration campaign which started in June 2016 compared to 32,087 newly-registered male voters in Bara.
The total number of women voters in Bara, NA-45 constituency, for 2013 general elections was 53,373 which had now soared to 105,958. The male voters increased from 108,354 in 2013 to 140,441 till the end of March this year.
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[DAWN] India’s cabinet on Saturday approved the death penalty for rapists of girls below the age of 12, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an emergency meeting in response to nationwide outrage in the wake of a series of cases.
The executive order, or ordinance, amends the criminal law to also include more drastic punishment for convicted rapists of girls below the age of 16, government officials said. The order will come into effect once it is signed by India’s president.
India launched fast-track courts and a tougher rape law that included the death penalty after a gruesome assault on a young woman shocked the country in 2012, but India’s rape epidemic has shown no sign of dying down. There were 40,000 rapes reported in 2016.
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Of all of the flavors of rape-rape,
The vilest ain't everyday state rape,
Not date rape or mate rape
Or gay rape or straight rape
Or early or late rape. It's hate rape!
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Would be unconstitutional here, not because it's in the Constitution, but because the lefthand side of the court has never met a monster they didn't like.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Free Beacon] Executives at Mylan N.V., the pharmaceutical company that drew controversy for increasing the price of EpiPen devices nearly 400 percent, donated heavily to Democratic senator Joe Manchin's reelection campaign as the company planned to lay off more than 400 workers in his home state of West Virginia.
[DAWN] FAISALABAD: A teacher of Govt Boys Primary School, Chak 34-JB, was 
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
