26Military Oath
The Oath taken by US Military Officers requires that they bear allegiance - not to any US President or other government official - but only to the Constitution of the United States, which they are sworn to support and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
27. Operation Paul Bunyan was launched in response to the Korean Axe Murder Incident where Americans trimming a tree in the DMZ were killed by North Koreans. The US went back to cut it down, bringing with them overwhelming firepower with hundreds of soldiers (some with suicide vests) and air support.
28. When the military wears the American flag on the shoulder, the starfield needs to always face forward. So on the right shoulder, the flag is backward.
29. The United States has military equipment stashed away in large caves in Norway so that if they need to defend them, the U.S. can just fly in troops and use the prepositioned equipment.
30. Castner's Cutthroats was a platoon of Army scouts who served in the Aleutian Islands Campaign of WW2. The group was composed of trappers, hunters, miners, and Native Alaskans. They seldom used ranks and never wore uniforms. In addition to recon missions, they fought in the bloody Battle of Attu.
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31Ghost Army
United States Army had a tactical deception unit called "Ghost Army" during World War. It consisted of 1100 soldiers, their job was to deceive the enemy by inflatable tanks, sound trucks, and fake radio transmissions.
32. There is a gag gift called "liquid a*s" that smells so badly the US military uses it for hyper-realistic combat training for medics to experience corpses or individuals with severe abdominal injuries.
33. The US military once considered building a "gay bomb," with an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behavior among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.
34. The "Lost Battalion" refers to the 211 Texas Guardsmen that were surrounded in the Vosges Mts. in 1944. They were saved by the Japanese-American 442nd Regiment, which suffered over 800 casualties while effecting the rescue. Veterans of the 442nd were later made "honorary Texans" in 1962.
35. The United States military pays professional sports teams to display patriotism. Between 2012-2014 the military spent $10.4 million on marketing contracts with teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS, while spending $88 million sponsoring a NASCAR racer's car.
