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The Army’s top leaders faced tough questions from lawmakers on Wednesday about media reports that the Pentagon is shifting $1 billion away from repairing Army barracks to instead fund military ...
It was almost a copycat manoeuvre, echoing July 26, 1953—the date Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba was attacked by a small group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro.
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He also took part, with Fidel and other young people, in the first and historic March of the Torches. With Jesús Montané Oropesa, the Mateu brothers and Gabriel Gil, he made the journey to Santiago de ...
July 26, 1953 – Castro and approximately 150 others attack the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Batista regime.
On July 26, 1953, Castro led around 160 men in a desperate assault on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba, hoping to cause a mass uprising. Most of his men were killed, and Castro was ...
On July 26, 1953, a ragtag band of 160 Cubans tried to trigger an uprising against Dictator Fulgencio Batista by attacking Santiago de Cuba’s Moncada Army barracks. The chancy venture was ...
The former Moncada military barracks downtown were the site of the revolution's first battle in 1953. Castro himself, who ruled the island for nearly five decades, once lived in a wooden home ...
The Army is planning to go big on barracks, TV ads for recruiting and more money for child care as part of its $185.9 billion budget request for Fiscal Year 2025.
The Army is hoping privatization can fix the myriad quality-of-life issues facing its barracks, at least partly because it has few other ideas. In December, key service leaders had a barracks ...
Senior leaders from across 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, check barracks facilities for mold and other maintenance concerns in September 2022 after soldiers ...