Texas Strikes Back

“I never thought that we’d be in this paramilitary type of engagement. It’s a war on the border,” said Captain Stacy Holland with the Texas Department of Public Safety. Holland leads a fleet of 16 state-of-the-art helicopters that make up the aviation assets used by the Texas DPS to fight Mexican drug cartels. In recent…

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United States Casualties of War

Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) 50,000 War of 1812 (1812 – 1815) 25,000 Mexican-American War (1846-1848) 17,435 American Civil War (1861-1865) 1,147,954 Spanish-American War (1898) 4,068 Filipino Insurrection (1898-1913) 7,126 World War I (1917-1918) 320,518 World War II (1941-1945) 1,076,245 Korean War (1950-1953) 128,650 Vietnam War (1957-1973) 211,454 Gulf War (1990-1991) 1,231 War In Afganistan…

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