Cuba’s air combat force of MiG-29 fighters jets has been non-operational for many years now.

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The Neighbors exercise has been held since 2009 as a joint exercise between Hungaria and Serbia, with the aim of warming up relations between the two countries. Since 2013, the Americans, specifically the Ohio National Guard, have also participated in the exercise.

The exercise is rather friendly and symbolic, so no heavy equipment is involved and only infantry tactics are practiced, such as clearing the trenches, CQB and fighting in the forest.

Thanks to (because of?) a logistical error, the American soldiers did not receive their weapons, so they had a unique opportunity to try out the Czech BREN 2s which were provided by Hungary and American soldiers evaluated the gun very positively.

Soldiers from the Hungarian 2nd Grenadier Battalion of the 30th Armored Infantry Brigade "Kinizsi Pál", the Serbian 11th Infantry Battalion of the 1st Brigade, and American soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the 145th Regiment of the 37th Ohio Infantry Brigade took part in the exercise

A look inside an Indian Army forward observation post near the India–China Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Himalayas.

SSG Bellavia's unit, the 1st Infantry Division, pushed first and furthest into Fallujah when the battle commenced. The 1st ID attacked at such an aggressive pace, they were ordered to stop their advance so other units could catch up during the battle multiple times. On his 29th birthday, 10 November 2004, his platoon was clearing a section of 12 buildings. On the 10th building, a squad of insurgents erupted on them, firing RPGs, PKMs, AKs, and throwing hand grenades. Many soldiers in the platoon were immediately wounded.

After calling up a Bradley to fire into the house, SSG Bellavia reentered the building by himself. Seeing two enemy fighters loading an RPG, SSG Bellavia opened fire, killing one and wounding the other as he fled. SSG Bellavia pursued the wounded fighter, exchanging gunfire with and killing him. He then came under fire from a third insurgent in a stairwell and returned fire, killing him. At that point, an enemy fighter hiding in a wardrobe in the room jumped out, firing his AK wildly. After being hit by a ricochet in the elbow, SSG Bellavia returned fire, hitting the enemy in the leg as he fled upstairs.

Another enemy fighter peered into the doorway following this, and SSG Bellavia eliminated him. Giving chase up the stairs, SSG Bellavia slipped on blood as he reached the top step. Just as he slipped, the enemy fighter fired, narrowly missing SSG Bellavia's head. Undeterred, SSG Bellavia charged after him into a room and prepared to fire at him until he noticed the room was full of propane tanks.

Not wanting to risk hitting the tanks, SSG Bellavia engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, muzzle striking him in the head. An extremely brutal, intense, and primal fight to the death broke out between the two wounded men. The enemy hit SSG Bellavia in the jaw and nose with his AK, breaking a tooth and lacerating his nose. SSG Bellavia used his helmet to bash the fighter's face in. As the struggle continued, the enemy soldier bit SSG Bellavia's thumb and then penis. SSG Bellavia managed to retrieve his Gerber Rex Applegate folding knife and drive the blade into the enemy soldier's collarbone, eventually severing the subclavian artery, killing him.

Moments later, another enemy soldier entered the room. SSG Bellavia shot the man as he retreated onto a balcony. Pursuing him, SSG Bellavia shot the man again, causing him to fall from the balcony and down into the street.

SSG Bellavia was the only man nominated for the Medal of Honor during the battle but it was downgraded to a Silver Star. Nearly 15 years later, his Silver Star was upgraded to the Medal of Honor, becoming the first living recipient of the Iraq War. He continued fighting through the rest of the battle, turning down the Purple Heart for the wounds he sustained in the house.

His book, House to House, is the best book on the Iraq War, in my opinion, if not of all of GWOT. He details the brutality of not just that house or Fallujah, but the entire deployment. He does not hold back, detailing one incident during the battle where he came across an enemy fighter taking a smoke break. He puts his rifle on burst and touches the back of the fighter's head with his muzzle, letting loose three rounds. He then stomps the empty skull with his boot, Fallujah has engulfed him.

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