In the mid-1800s, the U.S. Army experimented with using camels to haul supplies across Texas and the American Southwest. The Camel Corps was a bold solution to harsh terrain and long distances, but despite initial success, the project was abandoned after just a decade.
Neither Fort Bliss or Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson were involved in using Basic Allowance for Subsistence, (BAS), money meant for soldiers meals on other things. Other bases around the country were allegedly sending over half of all the money collected from United States soldiers paychecks elsewhere.
Shreveport's Independence Bowl announced this morning a long-term agreement with one of the United States service academies, Army, to appear in future Independence Bowls.
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A small army of lab-coated, safety goggle-sporting geniuses are toiling day and night to make sure America's military can most certainly count technology an innovation in it's arsenal - and it seems they've done it again!