As the new XEHub Database comes on-line in October, we strongly recommend each chapter utilize a two-step process for registering your chapters planned initiation program while ensuring each of your prospective new members have their Keys and Certificates at the appropriate time.
Step 1 – use the XEHub Database to electronically document each initiation event and register the candidate's contact information.
Step 2 – continue to utilize the spreadsheet forms listed below as a backup. NOTE: rename all forms before sending to NHQ. Substitute your chapter number for "000". "MM-DD-YYYY" should reflect the planned initiation date. Note: Do not send these forms to the national office unless absolutely necessary.
While the Chapter Administration System remains down, the following forms are needed by the national office to ensure your chapters planned initiation program is properly registered and your prospective members have their Keys and Certificates at the appropriate time. NOTE: rename all forms before sending to NHQ. Substitute your chapter number for "000". "MM-DD-YYYY" should reflect the planned initiation date.
Shortly after the beginning of each semester or quarter, please submit this form to let the national office know when you plan to hold your next initiation, how you plan to pay for the initiation, when the term of office ends for the current officers, when you plan on installing your next set of officers and whether or not you have filed your financial report with the national office and the 990-series tax return with the IRS. Note: the national office may be filing the tax return on your behalf, but we still need to know if you've done this for yourself.
The forms have been revised. Please use the NEW form to communicate the names and contact information for each of your proposed new members. All columns must be filled out before forwarding this document to your Faculty Advisor for final review. The FA will forward this document to the National Office (xehq@chi-epsilon.org) when the review is completed. Sending this document to the National Office constitutes 'Final Chapter Approval'. Note: Columns with gray background are automatically populated as you enter data. Please do not insert data into these columns.
NOTE: please rename the final document using the following naming convention: 000 – NAME Initiate Data (MM-DD-YYYY).xlsx; where 000 is the chapter number, NAME is the chapter's name and MM-DD-YYYY is the confirmed date of initiation for your new members.
On receipt, we will prepare an invoice based on the information provided. This invoice will have a secure link which can be used to initiate a bank-to-bank transfer of funds. Please email a copy to the national office so we can begin processing your order. We will order Keys and Certificates for your initiation on confirmation of payment. Wallet cards will not be produced until we have verification the candidate attended the initiation ceremony.
The forms have been revised. Please use the NEW form to confirm which of your candidates were initiated as members in Chi Epsilon. This form should be sent to the national office within 10 days following the initiation ceremony.
Please use this file to register your new officers. This form should be sent to the national office within 10 days following installation of the new officers. NOTE: mm-dd-yyyy should be the end of term date for the new officers.


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The Block handed Nine a Tuesday night win after the reno show topped the time sheets last night as Tuesday's most watched show with 987,000 viewers.
Nine took home 31.3 per cent of last night's eyeballs, while rival Seven had to settle for 26.3 per cent. Ten snared third with 18.4 per cent, with the ABC hot on its heels with 16.5 per cent. The SBS had 7.5 per cent.
The Block aside, Nine's other standouts were its 6pm news bulletin that enjoyed 860,000, ACA with 781,000, True Story With Hamish And Andy pulled 640,000 and Hot Seat with 473,000.
Over at Seven, its 6pm news bulletin was its top-rater with 937,000. Home And Away pulled 642,000 and The Chase had 575,000. Sadly, dating show Take Me Out can't seem to find much of an audience, pulling 504,000.
Ten's best was Survivor with 664,000, The Project had a neat half-a-million, Pointless had 271,000 and Bull managed 257,000.
The ABC's evening ran thus: 6pm news (709,000), 7.30 (556,000), Foreign Correspondent (437,000), Catalyst (382,000) and David Attenborough's Conquest Of The Skies (232,000).
Over at the SBS, it was again trains doing the business, a repeat of Great Continental Railway Journeys pulling 294,000.


After the launch of the brand in 2012, Kelly Faetanini was named the "One to watch" by The Knot magazine as an up-and-coming emerging designer.
The company has set its own place in the industry by offering elegant and classic designs with a modern, innovative twist. Also, brides have the opportunity to personalize their gowns with customizable beading, detachable necklines and a special corsetry technology.
Kelly Faetanini has been featured over 450 times in print and digital publications including top name publications such as Brides Magazine, Martha Stewart Weddings, The Knot, WWD, Ritz Carlton Weddings, Inside Weddings, and many more.
The brand is already sold worldwide (US, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Ireland) and it is rapidly expanding to other countries.


David A. Domina participated in the Department of Justice / Antitrust Enforcement public workshops. He addressed the markets for cattle, hogs, corn, soybeans and wheat in particular. Mr. Domina is a strong proponent of market fairness as well as transparency. In order for a market to work as it should, transactions must be transparent, information should be made readily available and there should be no undue compulsions for sellers or buyers. Unfortunately, current markets are not characterized many any of these factors, but rather their opposites. In his address, Mr. Domina gave examples from market history and made suggestions for a new market structure. If you would like to read about this workshop in more detail, you can read Mr. Domina's comments in detail by viewing: Market Transparency, Captive Supplies, and Leveling Compulsions of Buyers and Sellers.


Whether you are taking a business trip to the other side of the globe or jumping in the car for a camping trip with the kids, traveling and sleep can be uneasy bedfellows. Although the amount of sleep disruption you encounter when you travel is largely dependent on your individual sleep habits, there are some common causes. With a little thought and some pre-planning, you can easily manage the most common travel related sleep disturbances.
Here are ten tips to help ensure lack of sleep doesn't leave you stranded.
Plan Ahead: In order to manage potential sleep stealers, you need to know what they are before you leave home. If you are traveling across time zones, take steps to avoid or mitigate jet lag. If you sleep best with specific conditions, make sure you bring what you need from home to create an environment conducive to sleep.
Get the Jump on Jet Lag: If you are crossing more than two time zones, you are likely to experience some jet lag. The more time zones involved in your trip, the more significant the impact. Think of your biological clock like the watch on your wrist, it operates better when you are winding it forward rather than backward. Your biological rhythm adjusts to forward jumps easier than backward jumps, so plan accordingly whenever possible.
Support Sleeping in Transit: Depending on the type of trip you are taking, being able to sleep while you are in transit may be important. If this is the case, enlist the aid of sleep supports to help you fall asleep whenever and wherever your itinerary allows. Things like sleep masks, ear plugs, neck support pillows, and white noise machines can make sleeping possible even if it is the middle of the afternoon or if you are surrounded by chattering children.
Seek out the Sun: Sunlight is one of the most powerful tools you can use to sync your bio rhythms with a new time zone. Our bodies respond to sunlight by shifting hormones to get us going. Just as a sleep mask can help block out the light when we need our bodies to sleep, stepping out into the sun can help reset our schedule.
Make a Home Away from Home: One of things travelers struggle with the most is falling asleep in unfamiliar surroundings. Alleviate this problem by bringing a little bit of home with you wherever you go. This might be a favorite pillow, a special blanket, a few pictures, or a candle that gives off a familiar scent. These small touches can transform any temporary space and help you settle into a restful slumber.
Know Your Noise Needs: Whether you are used to sleeping in complete silence or to the song of a busy city, you may find it difficult to fall asleep when the sounds are different. Pay attention to what you can hear when you climb into bed. If you are used to silence, earplugs might be the difference between a restful trip and coming home without getting a single night of sleep. If you never sleep in silence, the ticking of a familiar clock or a white noise machine can make all the difference.
Seek a Supportive Sleep Surface: For some people, the hardest part of sleeping away from home is finding a bed that supports their specific sleep surface sensitivities. If you know you are very sensitive to the type of bed you sleep in, call ahead and ask your hotel or accommodation if there are any options that would support your needs.
Take Your Temperature: One thing that can impede almost anyone's sleep is a sleep environment that is the wrong temperature. While some people like it warmer and others prefer it chilly, most people won't get a good night sleep if it is warmer than 75 degrees or colder than 50. If you prefer to be on the warm side, you might bring extra blankets or request them from the hotel. If you like it on the cool side, crank up the A/C early in the day to ensure the temperature is right at bedtime.
Safety First: Even if your room conditions are perfect and your bed is just right, if you don't feel safe in your new location, you will struggle to get to sleep. Take steps to ease any anxiety about being in an unfamiliar place. Pay attention to where the fire exits are located and keep your room or cabin locked at all times. To protect yourself in the event you misplace your room key, don't store it in the hotel jacket that lists your room number.
Waking Up: The other type of anxiety that can impact your sleep is waking up on time. To alleviate your concern, request multiple wake-up calls from the hotel and bring your favorite alarm clock from home. The familiarity may make it easier to wake-up and with more than one option, you can sleep soundly with the knowledge that you will wake up when at the proper time.


HomeBlogTulsa Gastro NewsAre At-Home Colon Cancer Screenings Reliable?
Should You Use At-Home Colon Cancer Screening Kits?
In the modern era, Americans are encouraged to be their own healthcare advocate, being conscious of signs and symptoms as well as managing preventive strategies. However, there are still many aspects of healthcare that are best left in the hands of the experts—and that includes colon cancer screenings.
If you've seen advertisements for at-home colon cancer screening kits, you may have been tempted to consider this option for assessing your colon health. After all, these kits claim to make colon cancer screenings as simple as going to the bathroom in the comfort of your own home.
These kits sound good in theory, but colon cancer is a serious disease and gastrointestinal conditions are often complex. Diagnosing colon cancer requires expertise. A positive result from your at-home kit will require a trip to the gastroenterologist and ultimately a diagnostic colonoscopy. While screening colonoscopies are covered by most insurance plans, a diagnostic colonoscopy is often not covered. If you choose an at-home colon cancer screening first, you will pay out of pocket for any diagnostic procedures that result from a positive test. In other words, you will spend more of your hard-earned money.
At-home screening kits have a much lower accuracy rate than a colonoscopy. Nearly 60 percent of at-home kits miss potentially cancerous polyps, and 13 percent of users get a false positive. It's a big gamble to take—it might cost you more money, and it could potentially cost your life by delaying much-needed medical care.
The ability to prevent If your gastroenterologist finds polyps (clumps of cells), they can often remove them during the procedure. Early removal of polyps before they can become cancerous is a vital colon cancer prevention strategy.
Don't leave your health to chance. Schedule a colonoscopy and be sure of an accurate, specific colon cancer screening by an expert gastroenterologist.


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The 2016–17 Drexel Dragons women's basketball team represented Drexel University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Dragons, led by fourteenth year head coach Denise Dillon, played their home games at the Daskalakis Athletic Center and were members of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). They finished the season 22–11, 11–7 in CAA play to finish in third place. They advanced to the semifinals of the CAA women's tournament where they lost to James Madison. They were invited to the Women's National Invitational Tournament where they defeated Duquesne in the first round before losing to Villanova in the second round.

Off season

2016 Recruiting Class

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See also
2016–17 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team

References

Drexel Dragons women's basketball seasons
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Kotobukiya?s Light Saber Chopsticks Saga continues will all new characters! Unique, Fun and Innovative! Fusion of Chopsticks, Japanese traditional eating utensil with worlds most popular and celebrated movie, Star Wars.You can collect them or use them. Great for family gifts and Star Wars Fans. This pack contains two identical chopsticks, each approx. 23 cm long.


@TaroJ: #scriptchat the first pro feedback I got was nerve wracking. A rejection but really happy with the feedback, very constructive.
@chriskbernard: #scriptchat what's the biggest challenge for a consultant?
@TaroJ: #scriptchat hi @blerime , what would you say is the most common feedback you give to writers?
@barelysarcasm: Include a part for Rob Schneider. RT @TaroJ #scriptchat hi @blerime , what would you say is the most common feedback you give to writers?
@chriskbernard: @sweettweenie #scriptchat I've had 2. Both had exceedingly long turnaround times, and charged way too much for what I got in return.
@chriskbernard: @scriptguyphil #scriptchat what do you find the most challenge part of consulting?
@RolandMooreTV: @TaroJ #scriptchat "what about earlier feedback before a script has been sold?" > Yes, particularly useful in spotting when genre wanders.
@chriskbernard: #scriptchat huge advocate of script consultants. Keep in mind they're human with likes, dislikes & opinions looking for a good story!
@sweettweenie: RT @chriskbernard: #scriptchat huge advocate of script consultants. Keep in mind they're human with likes, dislikes & opinions looking for a good story!
@chriskbernard: #scriptchat Regrettably I must go, but it's been great! Looking forward to the next one. #scriptchat rocks!
@HateTheHate: #scriptchat if your peers don't "get" it then it probably needs work!
@RolandMooreTV: I love reading scripts - as I'm sure most people on #scriptchat do. So pro readers can be supplemented with the community here. Use both.
@Bang2write: #scriptchat that's why I set up The Feedback Exchange for peer review http://www.tinyurl.com/fdbkxchng Don't pay a reader if u don't have to!
@TaroJ: RT @Bang2write: #scriptchat that's why I set up The Feedback Exchange for peer review http://www.tinyurl.com/fdbkxchng Don't pay a reader if u don't have to!
@Bang2write: @sterussell @Sofluid #scriptchat yep - and some writers ADDICTED to notes, they don't know when the draft is finished!
@sweettweenie: RT @RolandMooreTV: I love reading scripts - as I'm sure most people on #scriptchat do. So pro readers can be supplemented with the community here. Use both.
@sweettweenie: RT @Bang2write: #scriptchat that's why I set up The Feedback Exchange for peer review http://www.tinyurl.com/fdbkxchng Don't pay a reader if u don't have to!
@RolandMooreTV: @alli_and_that "I adore reading scripts and am always happy to give feedback" #scriptchat > Exactly. It's entertaining and we learn too.
@TaroJ: #scriptchat great to have so many people with first hand experience from both sides of script consulting. 5 mins left any burning points?
@antonsays: #scriptchat hello. Am I late?
@Bang2write: @alli_and_that @HateTheHate @scriptguyphil #scriptchat as I've said multiple times on the blog, no one can copyright any idea.
@antonsays: Did someone mention #Scriptchat drinks next week?
@art1032: RT @Jamie_LD: Before we start tonight's #scriptchat I want to say, please keep @JMidnight in your thoughts and prayers, RIP @MarkWorthen We adored you.
@caramumfordfilm: Heads up to my non-scriptchat tweeps... you might want to ignore me for the next hour or so. It's #scriptchat o'clock!
@LifesizeLD: RT @caramumfordfilm: Heads up to my non-scriptchat tweeps... you might want to ignore me for the next hour or so. It's #scriptchat o'clock!
@DimitriDavis: It's been way too long. Happy to be back to #scriptchat.
@johnarusso: #scriptchat New here. Hi everyone! Looking to learn.
@LifesizeLD: I miss @MarkWorthen. RIP Mark. This #Scriptchat 's for you!
@RobyMB: @jeannevb #scriptchat I get it the best I can on my own. Three drafts at the earliest. Take notes in stride.
@Jamie_LD: Such a great guy. RT @LifesizeLD: I miss @MarkWorthen. RIP Mark. This #Scriptchat 's for you!
@kim_garland: Hear, hear. RT @LifesizeLD: I miss @MarkWorthen. RIP Mark. This #Scriptchat 's for you!
@VerbaVitae: I'm watching #scriptchat roll. Hi all.
@movielady: Scriptchat what is your favorite software?
@making_a_scene: Hello #scriptchat. I'm thinking about sending a script to The Screenplay Mechanic. Here to see if it's worth it.
@Jamersmom: @jeannevb I should be back home by the end of #scriptchat. Taxi run.
@SidKali: Looking at gold running down Twitter timeline. I have to tune in for #scriptchat next week. Real experience being shared by people rocks.
@Whyvoni: Learning SO MUCH. #amexcited Thank you #scriptchat and thank you @jeannevb!
@Silverwingscrpt: RT @Whyvoni: Learning SO MUCH. #amexcited Thank you #scriptchat and thank you @jeannevb!
@NYCanes: @elizabethkarr what time does #scriptchat start?
@NYCanes: what time does #scriptchat start?
@NYCanes: @Jamie_LD #scriptchat thank you !
@LifesizeLD: A HUGE #Scriptchat farewell toast to @MarkWorthen!
@DimitriDavis: RT @LifesizeLD: A HUGE #Scriptchat farewell toast to @MarkWorthen!
@Jamie_LD: A toast *raises glass* RT @LifesizeLD: A HUGE #Scriptchat farewell toast to @MarkWorthen!
@Justin_Pleau: #scriptchat i find using a pen and paper to write easier sometimes than trying to type on laptop, with twitter and facebook right there.
@art1032: RT @LifesizeLD: A HUGE #Scriptchat farewell toast to @MarkWorthen!
@making_a_scene: Another great episode of #scriptchat. Thanks!
@craigary: #scriptchat As someone who's both rec'd script consulting and been one myself, it's useful if scribe's receptive + consultant is good match.
@kim_garland: Here's to Mark! *clink* RT @LifesizeLD: A HUGE #Scriptchat farewell toast to @MarkWorthen!
@johnarusso: #scriptchat thanks everyone!! I'm looking forward to getting in there next week. Happy writing!
@Film_Shark: Thanks to those who advertised #scriptchat. I will listen to what they have to say. These discussions are good but writing is even better.
@LordBronco: @jeannevb #scriptchat Thanks all! see you around!
@johnarusso: #scriptchat my one comment for today - the best response I've gotten from producers was when I did a reading of my screenplay in NYC.
@SidKali: @DimitriDavis @jeannevb @VerbaVitae #scriptchat I got in late, but next Sunday I'll be in early. Cheers.
@DimitriDavis: Glad to have popped back in for #scriptchat. Shame I missed so many!


How often do you find yourself in this situation: drunk and blindly stumbling around the house, having a good ol' time, when your brain forgets about that beer glass in your hand and smash! Party's over. You've lost that souvenir glass from that fest in Oregon, one that can never be replaced. You pick up the pieces of the ruined glass from the floor, your tears mixing with the blood from your lacerated fingers.
Why subject yourself to this, day in and day out, when you could be using a Silipint? Leave the souvenir beer glasses in the cabinet where they were meant to be and try out this pint glass made entirely from silicone. I got one to try out and was initially skeptical, as the glass had a faint rubbery smell upon unpackaging. But after a run through the dishwasher, that smell was gone and I was enjoying my beer out of it. Forgot I was drinking out of a silicone glass after a minute or so. Never forgot I was holding a glass, but if I had, it would only have taken a few sheets of Bounty (the quicker-picker-upper!) to clean up the mess.
If you do find yourself stumbling around the house with the safety of the Silipint soothing your conscious, you can put it in your teeth and get one more hand free to help stabilize!!
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It's been a helluva year. From the highs of the Super Bowl to the lows of my injury, I've been so thankful for the support of my family, friends, and fans. Here's to coming back stronger in 2018. Happy New Year everyone.


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Def Leppard Likely Won't Return to 'Standard' Studio Work
Martin Kielty Published: March 19, 2022
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott said the process of recording the band's new album Diamond Star Halos while observing pandemic lockdown rules was "joyful."
While some artists found it difficult to work around social distancing, Elliott said that, for his band, the experience was positive and even educational. He's based in Ireland, while bassist Rick Savage is in England. Guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell and drummer Rick Allen are all based in the United States.
"It was joyful to do," Elliott told Billboard in a new interview. "[A]t any one time there were possibly four songs getting worked on at once. And everybody was at home, so you didn't have to work on it constantly or be sitting around waiting to do your bit if we were all in the studio together or something. You could get on with doing other stuff.
"So it was a leisurely way of recording, but we could concentrate wholly on the record when we were actually recording," he continued. "What we learned was it's not where your body is, it's where your mind's at. We were in three different countries, but we were all on the same page."
Collen went further, predicting Def Leppard probably won't "go back to whatever that standard way was that we did before." He explained: "There was so much more energy by not having to go to a studio or a situation where you were waiting on anything. I'd finish something, send it to Joe in Ireland and he'd send it to Sav and… we'd just be back and forth, and when I'd wake up in the morning there'd be something new in my mailbox. It was constantly exciting."
Diamond Star Halos — an LP based on the band members' early inspirations — will be released on May 27, just ahead of the band's Stadium Tour that also features Motley Crue, Poison and Joan Jett. Def Leppard previewed the album this week with lead single "Kick."
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Bid on Elton's Platform Shoes
A pair of platform boots belonging to Elton John are part of a unique auction of rock and pop memorabilia being offered for sale in an auction on eBay to help raise funds for Amnesty International's human rights work.
The striking black-leather, knee-high, six-inch platform-soled boots – signed 'With love, Elton John x' and decorated with a giant gold piano motif around the platform (photograph available) – are part of a collection of items donated to Amnesty by musicians in recent years.
The boots are being offered for auction along with a signed photo of Elton John, as well as two free tickets to see the legendary performer headline the Bestival festival on the Isle of Wight on 8 September.
Other items in the auction include a signed Coldplay platinum album of the band's critically-acclaimed and enormously successful LP A Rush Of Blood To The Head (signed by all four members of the band and complete with a commemorative plaque and album artwork), a drum-skin signed by members of Genesis, a signed copy of cult band The Cocteau Twins' last-ever 12′ single Violaine, a signed pair of drum sticks from The Lightning Seeds, as well as signed t-shirts from the likes of Lily Allen, Kid Creole, John Martyn, and Mr Hudson And The Library.
The items in the Amnesty auction are now available on eBay for ten days (with bids closing on 1 September). All of the money raised from the auction will go directly to Amnesty's human rights work.


Understanding by Design (UbD) is a curriculum framework, that is, it is a way of looking at a curriculum. It offers a three-stage, backward process to curriculum design.
It is not a curriculum by itself, so technically, to say 'UbD curriculum' is wrong; instead we can say 'UbD-ized curriculum' (that is, a curriculum which is designed using the UbD process).
2.) students are not learning at all, perhaps because of #1.
Let's discuss no. 1. What is wrong with paper-and-pencil tests? Basically, they do not capture all understandings that a student must have. That is, just because a student gets a 100% in the test does not mean that he really understood the subject, and, in the same manner, just because a student gets a 0% in the test does not mean that he does not understand any thing about the subject. In this manner, the UbD framework calls for ways to better capture and diagnose student understandings and misunderstandings. Note, however, that the UbD framework does not mean that paper-and-pencil tests are out: they will still be here; it's just that we have to add more ways to 'test' a student.
UbD is a backward-design process because you have to start with what you really want the students to understand. That is, you have to identify what understandings your students must get from your subject, before identifying activities to help students get those understandings.
Quote: Understanding by Design — a framework for designing curriculum, assessments, and instruction explores questions like: What is teaching for understanding? How can you unpack content standards to identify the important big ideas that you want students to understand? How do you know that students truly understand and can apply their understanding in a meaningful way? How can you design courses and units to emphasize understanding rather than coverage? What instructional practices are both engaging and effective for developing student understanding?
Seems like many teachers are having a hard time in UNDERSTANDING this curriculum framework called "UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN". I mean, it's quite easy to comprehend when people describe a UbD framework, but then when teachers try to apply the framework in their classrooms, they are somehow puzzled and are still having difficulty in making it work for them and the students.
Perhaps proponents of this framework should use UbD framework in helping most teachers to UNDERSTAND it.
I am a fresh graduate and UbD was just introduced to us during the last quarter of our school-year. I suppose I still need to really understand it before being able to apply it successfully. I have just tried using it once, and with a group, but I'm not so sure if we did right. We may be needing more understanding in using UbD so it'll be just as great for both teachers and students/pupils.
I'm not against the idea of adapting the framework. In fact, I want to learn more about it and I want to ensure that I'll be doing it right the next time.
However, as I understand it, there is actually very little changes in the way classes are run by teachers once they adapt the UbD framework. Or at least those teachers who are actually using UbD, but are not aware of it. From the way I've understood it, the focus of UbD is simply to get away from the mindless, purposeless activity that so characterize many teachers' classes.
I was initially opposed to UbD, primarily because of my misunderstandings about it. But after I've read the book, I realized that indeed UbD may be the answer to the woes of Philippine education.
Thanks for the compliment. I haven't visited and updated it for quite a long time.
What's the title of that book? And the author?
I'm referring to the original Understanding by Design book, by Wiggins and McTeigh Jay has posted the links here.
is UBD apply in all level from elem to hi school?
Per DepEd memo, only to the first year in high school. Some schools, however, have applied it to all levels.
Do you have a copy of the DepEd memo?
(06-15-2010 10:31 AM)admin Wrote: Per DepEd memo, only to the first year in high school. Some schools, however, have applied it to all levels.
Here's the link of the DepEd Memo... Please register to see links.
(06-16-2010 02:17 PM)visyel Wrote: Do you have a copy of the DepEd memo?


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5th Special Forces Group (United States)
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5th Special Forces Group
5th Special Forces Group beret flash 1964–1985 and 2016–present
21 September 1961 – present
Special Operations Forces
Fort Campbell
The Quiet Professionals
Operation Enduring Freedom
Col. John Brennan
The 5th Special Forces Group (5th SFG(A)) is one of the most decorated active duty United States Army Special Forces group in the U.S. armed forces. The 5th SFG(A) saw extensive action in the Vietnam War and played a pivotal role in the early months of Operation Enduring Freedom.
As of 2016[update], the 5th SFG is primarily responsible for operations within the CENTCOM area of responsibility as part of the Special Operations Command, Central (SOCCENT). The 5th SFG specializes in operations in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa (HOA). The 5th SFGA and two of its battalions spend roughly six months out of every twelve deployed to Iraq as Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Arabian Peninsula.
1 Unit lineage
2 Vietnam War
3 Relocation
4 Late Cold War
5 Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm
6 Operations Restore Hope and United Shield
7 Operation Enduring Freedom
7.1 Infiltration
7.2 Fighting on horseback
7.3 Capture of Mazar-e-Sharif
7.4 Additional teams
7.5 Mission success
8 Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn
9 Subordinate units
10 Unit campaign credit
10.1 World War II
10.2 Vietnam
10.3 Southwest Asia
10.4 Iraq and Afghanistan
11 Decorations
11.1 Vietnam war honors
11.2 Unit honors
12 Commanders
13 In popular culture
16 Additional reading
Unit lineage
The 5th SFG(A) traces its lineage to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 1st Special Service Force, a combined Canadian-American organization which was constituted on 5 July 1942. It was activated four days later on 9 July at Fort William Henry Harrison, Montana. During World War II, the 1st Special Service Force was disbanded on 5 December 1944 in Villeneuve-Loubet, France.
5th Group was constituted on 15 April 1960, concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Ranger Infantry Battalion (activated 1 September 1943). The consolidated unit was redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces. Organic elements were constituted on 8 September 1961. 5th Group was reactivated 21 September 1961 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.[1]
On 1 October 2005, the unit was redesignated as the 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces Regiment.[1]
Special Forces Group organization in the Vietnam Era
Fearing the growing threat of the Viet Cong insurgency to the Vietnamese government, President John F. Kennedy began activating special forces units in anticipation of their insurgency combat expertise in 1961. The 5th Special Forces Group was among those units activated in 1961, and while attending training at the Special Warfare Center, Kennedy visited the units and personally approved the distinctive Special Force's Green Beret.[2] The 5th SFG was first deployed as a battlefield advisory group for the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). By February 1965, it was deployed as a mainstay battle force[3] once the war was in full swing.[4] They used unconventional and conventional warfare, and were some of the last soldiers the United States pulled out of Vietnam.
Flash from 1961–1970 and 1985–2016
The Group's personnel in Vietnam adopted a variant flash with an added diagonal yellow stripe with three narrow red over-stripes (inspired by the flag of South Vietnam) from 1964 to 1970. The reason was that the group had a black flash bordered in white, like a funerary armband – making it look like the US had given up on their allies. From 1970 to 1985 it was adopted by the entire Group; the yellow and red stripes were officially supposed to indicate the 5th Group's creation from personnel drawn from the 1st and 3rd Groups. It reverted to the plain black flash on 16 January 1985. On 23 March 2016, the 5th Special Forces Group changed over to the Vietnam-era flash to pay respect to the unit's history and the Green Berets of the past who are part of the unit's history.[5]
In June 1969 the killing of a suspected double agent Thai Khac Chuyen, and the attempt to cover it up, led to the arrest in July of seven officers and one non-commissioned officer of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) including the new commander, Colonel Robert B. Rheault in what became known as the "Green Beret Affair".[6] Mr. Chuyen was working with the 5th on Project GAMMA when he underwent some ten days of rigorous interrogation and solitary confinement before being shot and dumped into the sea.[7] National newspapers and television picked up the story which became another lightning rod for anti-war feeling. Finally in September 1969 Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor announced that all charges would be dropped since the CIA, which may have had some involvement, refused to make its personnel available as witnesses.[8][9][10]
In April 1970, 5th SFG began reducing its number of personnel in Vietnam. Later in November and December, further reductions in personnel and extraction of companies ensued, ending in a complete withdrawal of the group by March.[11] On 5 March 1971, 5th SFG returned to Fort Bragg.[4] During their time in Vietnam, members of the unit earned 16 Medals of Honor, making it the most prominently decorated unit for its size in that conflict. Members of the unit continued to conduct intelligence operations in Southeast Asia until the collapse of the South Vietnamese government on 29 April 1975.
The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was a joint unconventional warfare task force created by the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a subsidiary command of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV). The unit would eventually consist primarily of personnel from the United States Army Special Forces. Others assigned to MACV-SOG came from the United States Navy SEALs, the United States Air Force, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Special Activities Division, and elements of the United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance units. The Studies and Observations Group was in fact controlled and missioned by the Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities (SACSA) and his staff at the Pentagon. After 1967 the HQ 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), provided administrative support to MACV-SOG Special Forces soldiers in Vietnam.
The 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) remained at Fort Bragg until 10 June 1988, when the Group colors were cased at a ceremony marking its departure from Fort Bragg. The colors were officially uncased by Maj. Gen. Teddy G. Allen, Commander of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Fort Campbell, Kentucky Col (now MG ret.) Harley C. Davis, Commander of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), and Command Sgt. Maj. Joseph Dennison on 16 June 1988 at its new home at Fort Campbell, KY.
Late Cold War
In 1989, through 'Operation Salam', demining training camps for Afghans were established at Risalpur and Quetta in Pakistan under UN auspices. From 1989–1995 a total of 17,055 mine clearance personnel were trained at these camps. Part of Operation Salam's agenda was also to impart mine awareness to Afghan refugees to identify mines and undertake due precautions.
The UNSSM for service with the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan (UNOCHA) was awarded to 5th Group soldiers who participated in this operation.
Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm
The 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) added to its combat history during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. In August 1990 the Group was called upon to conduct operations in Southwest Asia in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. During this crisis the Army's First Special Operations Task Force, (ARSOTF), consisting of elements of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) comprising 106 special operations teams performing a wide variety of missions that spanned the scope of operations: support to coalition warfare; conducting foreign internal defense missions with the Saudi Arabian Army, performing special reconnaissance, border surveillance, direct action, combat search and rescue missions; and advising and assisting a pan-Arab equivalent force larger than six U.S. divisions, as well as conducting civil-military operations training and liaison with the Kuwaitis. The border surveillance mission assigned the 5th Special Forces was key to providing actionable intelligence to the US and Pan-Arab Forces. New military relationships were forged between the US and the Arab dictatorships.[4]
General Norman Schwarzkopf described the Special Forces as "the eyes and ears" of the conventional forces and the "glue that held the coalition together."[12]
During the period of 2 August 1990 – 30 November 1995, selected unnamed members were awarded the Southwest Asia Service Medal, Saudi Arabia Kuwait Liberation Medal, Kuwaiti Kuwait Liberation Medal, National Defense Service Medal and the Valorous Unit Award reference General Orders 14.
Operations Restore Hope and United Shield
Main articles: Unified Task Force and Operation United Shield
On 3 December 1992, U.N. Security Resolution 794 authorized the U.S. led intervention "to use all necessary means to establish a secure environment for humanitarian relief operations in Somalia as soon as possible."[4] Select members of the unit were awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the United Nations Medal.
Main articles: United States invasion of Afghanistan and War in Afghanistan
After the 11 September attacks, the U.S. government acted quickly. The following day, President Bush called the attacks more than just "acts of terror" but "acts of war" and resolved to pursue and conquer an "enemy" that would no longer be safe in "its harbors".[13] By 13 September 2001, the 5th Special Forces Group was ordered to stand up a forward headquarters to conduct operations in Afghanistan.[14] The unit got its orders in mid-October. Their mission was wide-open: to assist General Abdul Rashid Dostum in conducting unconventional warfare operational area to make the area unsafe for terrorists and Taliban activities.[14]
Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 555 and 595, both 12-man teams, plus Air Force combat controllers, were the second and third groups of Task Force Dagger to enter Afghanistan. They followed seven members of the CIA's Special Activities Division and Counter Terrorist Center (CTC), led by Gary Schroen who formed the Northern Afghanistan Liaison Team.[15][16] The CIA team had infiltrated Afghanistan on 26 September into the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul, just 15 days after the 11 September attacks.[17] They brought three cardboard boxes filled with $3 million in $100 bills to buy support.[18] Jawbreaker linked up with Northern Alliance commanders and prepared the way for the introduction of Army Special Forces into the region.[19][20]
In the southern portion of Afghanistan, a company-sized element of approximately 200 Rangers from the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment were flown in on four Lockheed MC-130 aircraft and briefly captured a desert landing strip south of the city in Operation Rhino.[21]
On 19 October 2001, in the first operation of its kind, ODA 555 and ODA 595 were flown from a former Soviet airbase, now named the Karshi-Khanabad Air Base (nicknamed K2 by the Special Forces), in Uzbekistan[17] more than 300 kilometers (190 mi) across the 16,000 feet (4,900 m) Hindu Kush mountains. They flew in two SOAR ("Nightstalkers") MH-47E Chinook helicopters, escorted by two MH-60L Black Hawks. Conditions were marginal due to the altitude and icing conditions brought on by the low temperatures. Because the Chinooks didn't carry a centralized oxygen-delivery system for passengers, the troops had to use one-time-use "bailout bottles" at high altitude to survive the flight. This meant the mission was "one way".[22] The pilots refueled the helicopters at very low altitude under black out conditions, flying using night-vision goggles, and without radio communications, as they had trained to do multiple times. The Black Hawk escort was forced to turn back when they could not clear a pass along the flight route. The MH-47 crew set a world record for combat rotorcraft missions, refueling three times during 11 hours of flight.[22][23] After refueling, they flew into a sand storm and heavy fog which created near-zero visibility conditions.[14][18]
Special Forces Operational Detachments A-555 and A-595 were inserted into Afghanistan at night in zero-visibility conditions aboard two MH-47 Chinook helicopters.
One Chinook dropped the 12-man ODA 595 led by Capt. Mark D. Nutsch onto a farmer's field at 0200,[24] in the Dari-a-Souf Valley, about 80 km (50 mi) south of Mazar-i-Sharif. The teams arrived only 39 days after the Al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center for what they thought would be a year-long stay.[19] The team was extremely isolated. They were hundreds of miles from any allied forces and any possible extraction was hours away. On arrival, they linked up with the Northern Alliance led by General Dostrum and American CIA advisers, code-named Jawbreaker.[17] Several of the CIA team members previously served in U.S. military special operations, but were in the country as civilian operators. The second Chinook dropped ODA 555 in Shomali Plain where they linked up with warlord Fahim Khan. Among the team members was Jason Everman, former guitarist for Nirvana and Soundgarden.[25]
Members of ODA 595, part of Task Force Dagger, and Afghani forces ride into northern Afghanistan in October 2001 on horseback.
Fighting on horseback
Once they arrived in-country, they were given horses to ride, the only suitable transportation for the difficult mountainous terrain of Northern Afghanistan. Only ODA 595 commander Capt. Mark D. Nutsch[25] had any significant experience on horseback, but all readily accepted.[26][27] Capt. Will Summers, Special Forces team leader, said "It was as if The Jetsons had met The Flintstones."[27] They were the first U.S. soldiers to ride horses into battle since 16 January 1942, when the U.S. Army's 26th Cavalry Regiment charged an advanced guard of the 14th Japanese Army as it advanced from Manila.[28][29][30] The Afghan horses were all stallions and tended to fight each other, even with the soldiers on their backs. They rode trails a foot wide alongside a 1,000 feet (300 m) cliff, sometimes at night. During the next few weeks they rode from 10 to 30 kilometres (6.2 to 18.6 mi) per day.[14]
A stallion ridden by Summers one day was especially strong and spirited. During one especially harrowing ride off of a high mountain pass, zig-zagging down multiple switch-backs, his horse took his own lead and leaped straight down the mountainside.[23]
And my horse turned and faced straight down the hill... And he crouched down like a cat, and just sprung off the side of the mountain. And, I think about three to five horse lengths later, his front feet hit. And, this guy just took off like lightening down the side of a cliff. The only thing that went through my mind was this 1980s movie, The Man from Snowy River. And so, I was like, "Okay, the guy from Snowy River, he put his head on the back of the horse, and he put his feet up around his neck."
And so, my feet came up, my head goes back. And I have like horsetail on the back of my head. And this guy just tears down the side of this mountain where at the bottom of it is like a gully about six to 12 feet deep, and about four feet wide... And he successfully jumped over that...
And I guess about 20 minutes later, the General [Dostrum] and some of his entourage had finally caught up. And he had stopped, and looked at me kind of strange again, but a little different this time. And, he said something to me. And he started off again on his horse. And he turned around, and he said something again. And I knew that he was pretty serious about what he was saying. And, then we walked off. And, his translator said, "The General just paid you a great compliment." And I was like, "Wow, that's great. What did he say?" And, he said, "Truly, you are the finest horseman he has ever seen." ...And then he had stopped and said, "In addition to this, I was the most daring and brave man he had ever known."[23]
Summers became known as "the bravest horseman in all of Afghanistan."[23]
Captain Nutsch soon requested replacements for the traditional small, hard, wooden saddles used by the Afghanistan soldiers. He specified a supply of lightweight saddles, either McClellan or Australian-style, suitable for the smaller Afghan horses. A supply of saddles was air-dropped in mid-November.[24] The last U.S. Army unit to receive horseback training was the 28th Cavalry in 1943.[31] A picture of the soldiers on horseback was shown by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a news conference on 15 November 2001. When sculptor Douwe Blumberg saw that image, he felt impressed that he had to do something and created what became the only public sculpture to commemorate special forces, America's Response Monument.[32]
On 21 October, the Northern Alliance led by General Dostrum prepared to attack the fortified village of Bishqab. Dostrum's forces were equipped with AK47s, light machine guns, and Rocket Propelled Grenade launchers (RPGs). The Northern Alliance totaled about 1,500 cavalry and 1,500 light infantry. They were assisted by the 12-member U.S. Special Forces team and American air power. Bishqab was defended by several T-54/55 tanks, a number of BMPs (armored personnel carriers) armed with cannons and machine guns, and several ZSU-23 anti-aircraft artillery, along with mortars, machine guns, RPGs, and mines. The armor and heavy weapons were usually manned by the foreign Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters, who fought hard and did not surrender readily.[14] To reach the enemy, Dostrum's forces needed to cross a 1 mile (1.6 km)-wide open plain cut by seven ridges, each between 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) high, and spaced about 600 feet (180 m) apart, that left the advancing forces completely exposed to enemy fire. To the U.S. Special Forces, it looked like the Charge of the Light Brigade, Battle of Fredericksburg, and Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, all at the same time.[26] Supported by American air power and precision-guided munitions, they successfully attacked the Taliban, many of whom threw away their weapons and ran,[20] or made a secret pact with Dotrum's forces to join his forces as soon as the attack began.[14]
The next day, the Northern Alliance prepared to attack Cobaki. The U.S. Special Ops teams used SOFLAM Laser Target Designators to identify targets for air strikes on the enemy armor and artillery. The Northern Alliance followed this with a horse cavalry charge. When it looked like Dostum's cavalry charge would fail, several members of ODA 595 rode into action and helped win the battle.[26] Within the first two weeks, ODA 596 was joined by two more special forces soldiers, bringing their number to 14. They split the team into four three-man teams and spread out over 60 kilometres (37 mi) of mountainous terrain, in some cases 12 to 18 hours apart from each other by horseback. Each team of NCOs advised senior Northern Alliance commanders and called in air strikes and resupply for their forces.[14]
On 2 November, a third Special Forces team, ODA 534, was inserted by SOAR to assist Northern Alliance General Mohammad Atta. ODA 534 later linked up with the CIA team Jawbreaker, ODA 595 and 534, and General Dostrum outside Mazar-e-Sharif.[33]
Capture of Mazar-e-Sharif
One of the Task Force Dagger's primary strategic objectives was to capture Mazar-e-Sharif and an airfield so the U.S. could use it to bring in supplies and more troops. On about 6 November, the Northern Alliance broke through the Taliban defense in the valley of Darah Sof District, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from Mazar-e-Sharif.[14] The three teams reunited near Mazar-e-Sharif and participated in its capture. They guided hundreds of GPS-guided 2,000-pound JDAM precision-guided munitions dropped by USAF B-1B Lancer and B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers onto Taliban and Al-Qaeda positions near Mazar-e Sharif.[14]
Additional teams
By 18 November 2001, 10 ODAs from 5th Special Forces Group were operating in Afghanistan.[34]
ODA 534 from Charlie Company, 1st Btn, 5th SFG was split between the Darya and Balkh Valleys supporting General Atta Mohammad.[34][35]
ODA 553 from Bravo Company, 2nd Btn, 5th SFG[35] was inserted on 2 November. The ten-man team in Bamyan supported General Karim Khalili and his militia in the northern regions of Afghanistan. Together the men worked to flush Taliban forces from the region with a number of cities quickly falling to Kahili's tribal forces.[33][34]
ODA 554 from Bravo Company, 2nd Btn, 5th SFG[35] was in Herat supporting General Ismail Khan.[34]
ODA 555 ("Triple Nickel") from Bravo Company, 2nd Btn, 5th SFG[35] was, with ODA 595, one of two ODA units inserted on 19 October. They supported General Shariff in the Panjshir Valley.[34] It linked up with General Fahim Akhtar Khan in the Bagram/Kabul area of the Panjshir Valley, near the fortifications surrounding Bagram Air Base. Air Force Combat Controller Sgt. Calvin Markham used a SOFLAM Laser Target Designators to identify targets for air strikes on the enemy armor and artillery. He set up a series of strikes on the fields of targets around the airbase, guiding wave after wave of precision-guided munitions onto tanks, armored personnel carriers, guns, and fortifications around Bagram.[36]
ODA 555 worked closely with Northern Alliance forces under warlord Fahim Khan. They called in air strikes that dropped up to 15,000lb BLU-28 'Daisy Cutter' bombs on Taliban troop positions with devastating effect along the Shomali Plain.[33] ODA 555 accompanied Khan's militia and fought alongside them in numerous engagements. They sometimes called in air strikes danger close to stop Taliban attacks. They were with the Northern Alliance militia when they captured Mazar-e Sharif on 9 and 10 November, and with the assistance of ODA 595 and Jawbreaker, accompanied the militia when they captured Kabul on 13 and 14 November.[33]
ODA 574 ("Texas One-Two") from Alpha Company, 3rd Btn, 5th SFG[35] deployed from K2 just outside of Tarin Kowt on 14 November, along with Pashtun militia leader, Hamid Karzai. As Karazai's forces pushed south towards Kandahar, an error by an attached USAF TACP resulted in a 2,000lb GPS-guided JDAM hitting the ODA's position, killing and wounding several Special Forces and Afghan militiamen. Assisted by the remaining ODA 586 soldiers, with reinforcements from ODA 750 and ODA 523, Karzai was able to negotiate the surrender of Taliban forces around Kandahar and go on to become the first Afghan president.[33][34]
ODA 583 from Bravo Company, 3rd Btn, 5th SFG[35] deployed late on 21 November to the Shin Narai Valley supporting Gul Agha Sherzai near the Shin Narai Valley.[34] During their infiltration, one of the helicopters experienced a mechanical failure and made an emergency landing. Another helicopter was dispatched but dropped the team in the wrong location. The 583 finally joined the CIA team and Sherzai and pushed towards Kandahar. The 583 set up observation posts overlooking Kandahar International Airport and over the next few days, called in ongoing air strikes on the Taliban positions. On 7 December, ODA 583 helped Sherzai's forces capture the airport and very soon the city of Kandahar.[33]
ODA 585 from Bravo Company, 3rd Btn, 5th SFG[35] inserted by helo on 23 October into Kunduz to support General Burilla Kahn.[34] Despite initial missed air strikes that left Burillah unimpressed, 585's senior enlisted member Master Sergeant Bolduc called in another wave of F-18 strikes that in four passes obliterated several Taliban command bunkers and collapsed several sections of the enemy's trench lines. The display of coordinated airpower by 585 earned General Burillah's respect and proved their value to the Afghans. ODA 586 Eventually joined 585 and General Burillah's men for the final assault on the provincial city of Konduz, seizing it on 11 November.[33]
ODA 586 from Bravo Company, 3rd Btn, 5th SFG[35] was in Farkhar supporting General Daoud Khan in the Takhar province, who took the capital city of Taloqan on 11 November. Khan's troops, supported by airstrikes called in by 586, eventually took the city and provincial capital of Konduz on 26 November.[33][34]
ODA 595 from Charlie Company, 3rd Btn, 5th SFG[35] was with ODA 555 of two ODA units inserted on 19 October. They helped General Dostrum outside Mazar-e-Sharif.[34] ODA 595 were instrumental in helping the Northern Alliance to capture several thousand foreign and Afghan Taliban and bringing hundreds more local Afghans over to the Northern Alliance side. Over two months they destroyed several hundred enemy vehicles, liberated about 50 towns and six northern provinces comprising hundred square kilometers.[14]
Mission success
Major Mark E. Mitchell is decorated for his combat actions during the battle by General Bryan D. Brown, chief of the U.S. Special Operations Command
The well-placed ordinance dropped on the Taliban by the air power controlled by Task Force Dagger forced the Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces to continually pull back. The rapidity with which the enemy resistance crumbled eliminated the U.S. military's plans to deploy significant conventional ground forces.[33]
The Taliban and Al Qaeda forces were defeated within two months. It could have happened more quickly, but the Bush administration was fearful that without a provisional government to take over Kabul, the Northern Alliance would commit atrocities as they had when they had previously occupied the capital.[18]
The ground forces who eventually entered Afghanistan were left to pursue high value targets, including Osama bin Laden, among the Al-Qaeda near the Pakastani border. The high level command of Task Force Dagger remained in the country until the unit was finally redeployed to the United States in April 2002.[33]
Major Mark E. Mitchell of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry in November 2001 at Qala-i-Jangi Fortress, Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan.[37]
Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn
Main article: Iraq War
During Operation Iraqi Freedom 5th SFG(A) assisted in the capture of Saddam Hussein and was deployed throughout Iraq as part of Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP). 5th Group teamed up with various National Guard support groups from many different states: Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin and others.[citation needed]
Subordinate units
Order of Battle (ORBAT) of the 5th SFG before the addition of a fourth battalion.
Order of Battle (ORBAT) of the 5th SFG after the addition of a fourth battalion(since Aug. 2008)
Group Support Battalion
Unit campaign credit
Aleutian Islands
Naples-Foggia
Rome-Arno
Southern France (with arrowhead)
Counteroffensive
Counteroffensive, Phase II
Counteroffensive, Phase III
Tet Counteroffensive
Counteroffensive, Phase IV
Counteroffensive, Phase V
Counteroffensive, Phase VI
Tet 69/Counteroffensive
Summer-Fall 1969
Winter-Spring 1970
Sanctuary Counteroffensive
Counteroffensive, Phase VII
Defense of Saudi Arabia
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Cease-Fire
Iraq and Afghanistan
Operations Iraqi Freedom
Vietnam war honors
5th Special Forces Patrol by Robert T. Coleman, U.S. Army Vietnam Combat Artists TeamVI (CAT VI 1968).
During ten years of service in Vietnam, sixteen Special Forces soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for conspicuous gallantry and exceptional heroism under fire.
Sergeant First Class (later CSM) Bennie Adkins[38]
Sergeant First Class Eugene Ashley, Jr.
Sergeant Gary B. Beikirch
Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez, CCC, also a member of MAC-V SOG
Sergeant First Class William M. Bryant
Sergeant Brian L. Buker
Staff Sergeant Drew D. Dix
Master Sergeant Charles E. Hosking, Jr.
Sergeant First Class (later Colonel) Robert L. Howard, also a member of MAC-V SOG
Specialist Five John J. Kedenburg , also a member of MAC-V SOG
Staff Sergeant (later Sergeant Major) Franklin D. Miller, also a member of MAC-V SOG
Staff Sergeant Melvin Morris
Sergeant First Class Jose Rodela
First Lieutenant George K. Sisler , member of MAC-V SOG
Second Lieutenant (later Major) Charles Q. Williams
Sergeant Gordon Yntema
Sergeant First Class Fred W. Zabitosky, member of MAC-V SOG
Awarded posthumously
In total, members of the Special Forces earned the following number of awards:
Distinguished Service Cross 60
Distinguished Service Medal 1
Silver Star 815
Legion of Merit 235
Distinguished Flying Cross 46
Soldier's Medal 232
Bronze Star with V Device 3,074
Bronze Star 10,160
Purple Heart 2,658
Air Medal with V Device 394
Air Medal 4,527
Army Commendation Medal with V Device 1,258
Army Commendation Medal 5,650
Navy Commendation Medal with V Device 2*
* 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Mike Team B55 conducted seek and destroy missions during January – February 1969 in the Rung Sat Special Zone (RSSZ), an area about 20 miles south-southeast of Saigon and under operational command of the US and Vietnamese Navies.
Unit honors
The 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, earned the following unit awards in the Vietnam War:
Presidential Unit Citation 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Vietnam, 1 November 1966 – 31 January 1968
Meritorious Unit Commendation 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Vietnam, 31 January – 31 December 1968
Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm Detachment B-52, Project Delta, 15 May 1964 – 16 August 1968; Detachment A-322 (Soui Da), 18–25 August 1968; and 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1 October 1964 – 17 May 1969
Valorous Unit Award Detachment B-52, Project Delta, 4 March – 4 April 1968
Vietnam Civic Action Medal 5th Special Forces Group, (Airborne), 1 January 1968 – 24 September 1970
Navy Unit Commendation Detachment B-52, Project Delta, 17 April – 17 June 1967 and 15 July – 17 August 1967
Presidential Unit Citation, Navy Detachment A-101 (Lang Vei), Forward Operations Base 3 (Khe Sanh), and Command and Control (Da Nang), 20 January – 1 April 1968
Presidential Unit Citation, Studies and Observations Group MACV-SOG (Covert multi service unit controlled by the Joint Chief of Staff) awarded April 2001, Command and Control North (CCN), South (CCS) and Central (CCC), Vietnam War
United States Army Special Forces campaign participation credits number fourteen (see Campaign Participation Credit below) for the Vietnam War and range from 15 March 1962 to 31 December 1970.[39]
1st Battalion additionally entitled to:
Army Superior Unit Award for 1992–1993
2d Battalion additionally entitled to:
Army Superior Unit Award for 1992–1993[1]
Selected members of the unit are eligible to wear the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for participating in the following activities between December 95 – 18 March 2003 in SW Asia:
Operation Southern Watch
Maritime Intercept Operation
Operation Vigilant Sentinel
Operation Northern Watch
Operation Desert Thunder
Operation Desert Fox
Exercise Intrinsic Action
Exercise Iris Gold
Operation Desert Spring
COL L. H. Schweiter September 1961 – July 1962 (retired as Major General)
COL L. E. Wills July 1962 – July 1963
COL G. C. Morton September 1962 – November 1963
COL T. Leonard November 1963 – July 1964
COL H. F. Roye July 1964 – August 1964
COL J. M. Spears August 1964 – July 1965
COL W. A. McKean July 1965 – June 1966
COL F. J. Kelly June 1966 – June 1967
COL J. F. Ladd June 1967 – June 1968
COL H. R. Aaron June 1968 – May 1969 (retired as Lieutenant General)
LTC C. G. Ross (Acting) May 1969
COL R. B. Rheault May 1969 – July 1969
COL A. Lemberes July 1969 – August 1969
COL M. D. Healy August 1969 – March 1971 (retired as Major General)
COL J. B. Durst March 1971 – June 1972
COL E. L. Keesling June 1972 – December 1973
COL A. C. Harris December 1973 – August 1974
COL R. Maladowitz August 1974 – February 1976
COL C. L. Stearns February 1976 – June 1977
COL R. A. Mountel June 1977 – December 1978
COL G. W. McGovern December 1978 – December 1980
COL H. E. Bynam June 1980 – December 1982
COL J. A. Guest December 1982 – June 1985 (retired as Major General)
COL L. W. Duggan June 1985 – June 1987
COL H. C. Davis June 1987 – November 1989 (retired as Major General)
COL J. W. Kraus November 1989 – August 1991
COL K. R. Bowra August 1991 – August 1993 (retired as Major General)
COL J. W. Noe August 1993 – August 1995
COL T. M. Carlin August 1995 – August 1997
COL D. P. Brownlee August 1997 – July 1999
COL C. W. Paxton July 1999 – July 2001
COL J. F. Mulholland July 2001 – July 2003 (active Lieutenant General)
COL H. E. Pagan July 2003 – July 2005 (active Brigadier General)
COL K. McDonnell July 2005 – July 2007
COL C. E. Conner July 2007 – August 2009
COL M. E. Mitchell August 2009 – August 2011
COL S. E. Brower August 2011 – July 2013 (active Brigadier General)
COL J. W. Brennan July 2013 – Present
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In the 1979 war film Apocalypse Now, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz is the operations officer for the 5th Special Forces Group. Although Kurtz is a colonel, the operations officer for a Special Forces Group is normally a major or lieutenant colonel.
The Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon video game series features soldiers from Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group, referred to as "The Ghosts" throughout the series.
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In The Deer Hunter, Robert De Niro's character was a soldier in the 5th Special Forces Group.
Steven Seagal wears a black beret with the insignia of the 5th Special Forces Group in the 1991 Movie, "Out for Justice."
Paul Adelstein portrays Secret Service Agent Paul Kellerman in the television series Prison Break. Adelsteins character wears a 5th Special Forces Group pin on his suit in the show.
Lauri Törni, aka Major Larry Thorne, a 5th SFG soldier who was killed on a 1965 covert MACV-SOG mission.
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January and February 1966 - 1st Infantry Division, 101st Airborne Brigade, 1st Air Cavalry Division, and establishment of new special forces "A" Camp At Xom Cat, South Viewtnam:
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Q: angular watch - update variable outside function scope Startin out with angularjs this issue has puzzled me.
howcome and how can I make sure that when the watch function runs 2nd time (on init) testValue is "changed".

and js :
var myApp = angular.module('myApp',[]);
function MyCtrl ($scope) {
  var testValue = null;
  $scope.watchMe = null;
  $scope.$watch('watchMe', function () {
    console.log('testValue is', testValue);
    if(testValue !== null){`enter code here`
        console.log('i want to do something different the 2nd time this code runs - but i never get in here...');
    }
    testValue ="changed";
  });
};

And then there is the fiddle : jsfiddle example of the code
Thank you very much

A: the way you are trying to use watch is not very much correct
watch is used to react on a model change to trigger some further actions
so you need set a model as watch expression and listen to it so that when there is any change watch is called

  <input type="text" ng-model="name" placeholder="Enter your name">

{{greeting}}

and js :
var myApp = angular.module('myApp',[]);
function MyCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.name = "";

  $scope.$watch("name", function(newValue, oldValue) {
    if ($scope.name.length > 0) {
      $scope.greeting = "Greetings " + $scope.name;
         console.log("change detected: " + newValue);
    }
  });
}

A: it turns out the problem wasn't in the watch but in the controller being called twice. I am not sure why it does this in the fiddle but i added a log to make it clear that this is the problem.
So to clearify - testValue keeps being null because after the watch function runs the controller function runs again and overwrites var testValue.
This can be due to a lot of thing - in my case I assigned the controller to an element as also seen in the fiddle.

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Restraints on speech
by Henry Farrell on August 5, 2007
"Marty Lederman":http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/08/jane-mayer-on-black-sites.html on Jane Mayer's extraordinary – and horrible – _New Yorker_ "story":http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mayer?printable=true on the routinization of torture in CIA 'black sites' (I suspect he's also writing on the basis of his own sources here).
I have repeatedly argued here that there is no justification for keeping secret what interrogation techniques the CIA is permitted to use. In particular, it is absurd to "classify" something that is revealed to people outside the government who have no duty of confidentiality, i.e., to the detainees on whom the techniques are used. Those persons are free to disclose the information to others, as they have now done to Red Cross interviewers. Because of this, it becomes necessary to detain these persons, in isolation, presumably forever, _in order to impose a prior restraint on their speech concerning their knowledge of what our government has done to them._ In a strange sort of circular logic, the interrogation becomes the justification for indefinite detention, even long after the interrogation ends. Thus, as Jane writes, "[t]he utter isolation of these detainees has been described as essential to America's national security," so that they cannot reveal what happened to them.
I'd like to see some of our libertarian law professor colleagues give their views on this. For example, "Eugene Volokh":http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_29-2007_08_04.shtml#1186164435 recently – and correctly in my view – has blogged about the problems in issuing a restraining order on a possible paedophile who hasn't committed any crimes, talking about the dangers of "letting courts restrain movement simply based on people's even repugnant ideologies and desires." Does he believe that imprisoning people without trial (however repugnant their ideologies and desires), torturing them and continuing to imprison them indefinitely while preventing them from having contact with lawyers because they might reveal the methods that have been used to torture them is justifiable? One would hope not, but he and other prominent law professors in the blogosphere have thus far proved "remarkably":https://crookedtimber.org/2004/06/13/eugene-volokh-hits-the-eject-button/ "unwilling":https://crookedtimber.org/2005/11/06/libertarian-litmus-test/ to express more then a certain degree of perhaps-eggs-must-be-broken-to-make-an-omelette type squeamishness about the topics of torture and indefinite detention before swiftly changing the subject to something more congenial. Some kinds of restraints on free speech are more worthy of comment than others, it would seem (perhaps they'll prove me wrong).
bi 08.05.07 at 8:10 pm
"letting courts restrain movement simply based on people's even repugnant ideologies and desires."
The key word here is "courts". Because, as we all know, the judges who sit in courts are unelected, dictatorial, aristocratic academics who unilaterally manufacture their own laws under the cover of "interpreting" existing laws. Unlike the CIA, who… hey, want cream and sugar?
Andrew 08.05.07 at 8:30 pm
Some kinds of restraints on free speech are more worthy of comment than others, it would seem (perhaps they'll prove me wrong).
They'll prove you wrong around about the time said practices are being overseen by someone who is not on their local team, I would guess.
joejoejoe 08.05.07 at 8:40 pm
I think you mean Jane Mayer, not Jane Harman.
robertdfeinman 08.05.07 at 8:57 pm
Nothing new. During the WWI period the wobblies, union organizers and anti-war activists were routinely rounded up and jailed for their opinions. Legislation was passed making it a crime to oppose the draft. Eugene Debs went to prison for a number of years as a result.
In times of stress the US ignores our civil liberties. The Japanese-American internment is another good example.
What is different this time is that the degree of danger we are facing and the response to it are totally out of proportion. In the examples I cited we were engaged in world wars. This time we are facing a disorganized series of groups with varying capabilities and objectives. Most societies treat this as a police matter.
Either are politicians are really scared witless, or they are using fear mongering to push through an authoritarian government structure. Either way the results are not pretty. Loss of civil liberties leads to a loss of democratic power by the people. Their only avenue at that point is civil unrest.
Adam Kotsko 08.05.07 at 9:01 pm
It's a good thing for our rulers that Americans are so alienated from each other and geographically dispersed that civil unrest is extremely unlikely.
Henry 08.05.07 at 9:06 pm
thanks joejoejoe – corrected
P O'Neill 08.05.07 at 10:10 pm
There's a revealing last sentence in George Bush's statement today thanking Congress for passing the Protect America Act (they never seem to run out of names), the FISA "update" —
When Congress returns in September the Intelligence committees and leaders in both parties will need to complete work on the comprehensive reforms requested by Director McConnell, including the important issue of providing meaningful liability protection to those who are alleged to have assisted our Nation following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Maybe when this liability protection, which he makes sound like a rental car LDW, comes, then some of these indefinite detainees will be let out.
"Q" the Enchanter 08.05.07 at 11:24 pm
How dare you question the rhyme and reason of topic selection. Posts serve at the pleasure of their blogger, after all.
stevesh 08.06.07 at 12:04 am
A quibble. The CIA may have not have had much experience with detention but they certainly had some background on rendition in 1995.
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/rendition.pdf
s.e. 08.06.07 at 3:08 am
I would also note nell's comments on Lederman's post, the second ending…
"It's an uncomfortable, extremely inconvenient truth to face, but it's the truth nonetheless: In many parts of the world, long before 2001, our government was notorious for torture."
Bruce Baugh 08.06.07 at 3:39 am
Prof. Volokh's notion of freedom stops wherever the Bush administration wishes it to. As Jim Henley wrote some while back, "It's not like Eugene Volokh thinks much of me, either, but I've always considered his specialty to be showy moral handwringing on the way to siding with Power anyway. The further you get from standard Republican issues like guns and university speech codes, the more likely he is to arrive, with exquisite regret, at the conclusion that the State, particularly when helmed by George W. Bush, must have its way." The administration wants these restraints. Volokh will end up concluding it should have them.
omar shanks 08.06.07 at 4:43 am
One potential advantage of a second Clinton administration (Hillary's) is that divers self-proclaimed civil libertarians would, you know, actually stand up for civil liberties.
joe 08.06.07 at 6:21 am
Orin Kerr has the exact same schtick. It's amazing — every time he analyzes something, he comes to the conclusion with regret that whatever Bush/Gonzalez/Cheney move is "likely" legal "but we don't know all hte facts." (Wonder why we don't know the facts, jackass?!?!) But then he loves to say how he is for Gonzalez's resignation, but he did nothing wrong. . . . Volokh's merry band of hacks is so old.
bad Jim 08.06.07 at 7:56 am
We routinely assume that anyone imprisoned in the United States will be subjected to rape, so yeah, we're pretty much inured to the idea of torture. If you fall into the grips of authority your ass is grass. It's commonly the subject of jokes and rarely the object of outrage.
Perhaps authoritarianism is characteristic of the culture of law enforcement everywhere, but it's less contested in America than in contemporary Europe, or so I've been led to believe.
Seth Finkelstein 08.06.07 at 8:39 am
Orin Kerr in fact has a post:
http://volokh.com/posts/1186332672.shtml
"My own preferences and sense of the threat are both somewhere roughly in the middle (or so I think — it's hard to guess exactly what the distribution is). Based on those preferences and sense of the threat, as well as my initial read of the legislation, I think this legislation on the merits is relatively well done."
Barry 08.06.07 at 1:24 pm
"They'll prove you wrong around about the time said practices are being overseen by someone who is not on their local team, I would guess."
Posted by Andrew
Sums it up quite nicely.
Set: "Orin Kerr in fact has a post:…"
And, he;'s a wh*re. Choice quotes:
"Some will think the new legislation is tepid; others will think it signals the coming of the National Surveillance State. Some people think Al Qaeda is about to nuke America, and others think Al Qaeda poses no threat at all. "
Nice comment for a journalist, who seeks 'balance' over all. For a f*cking lawyer, who's allegedly a libertarian, it's capitulation to power.
"My own preferences and sense of the threat are both somewhere roughly in the middle (or so I think — it's hard to guess exactly what the distribution is). "
This follows the 'some think…others think…' quote before.
Again, purest BS. Only a fool prides himself on finding the truth by 'averaging' two viewpoints. Is that his attitude towards other constitutional protections? Towards being robbed ('I think that I was robbed; the guy with the gun and my money thinks that I gave it to him'?).
"The second change is a requirement of a formal authorization of a program to do such monitoring. The Director of National Intelligence and the AG have to approve a program (for up to one year) reasonably designed to be limited to the monitoring of persons outside the United States."
Um, has this guy been on vacation for the past six years? Doesn't he know who and what the AG is, what sort of stuff has leaked out about what they've been doing?
In the end, Jim Henley should modify his post about Eugene Volokh's default position being the feigned reluctant support of whatever the GOP wants, to include Orin.
Martin Bento 08.06.07 at 2:32 pm
Yes, they are wrestling with the dilemmas in the professional wrestling sense: lots of ostentatious groaning, lots of dramatic but improbable moves, the final result according to script.
Their difference with other professional wrestlers, though, is they always seek to sound reasonable rather than nuts. Nothing wrong with that, but one of the things that has enabled this administration and its apologists to go so far is that they have mastered the art of saying things that belong on pro wrestling in the tone suited to sagacious thought. They sound reasonable without actually deploying reason. This, I think, reflects a broad cultural problem: we have come to think of "reasonability" as a style rather than a substance.
Joe, Barry – I think that is nonsense. I have very considerable respect for Orin Kerr, and he is unusual for both the right and left in his persistence in bringing up awkward and difficult political issues for his own side, including the various misbehaviours of the AG, which he has blogged about on numerous occasions. He's someone whom I don't agree with much of the time, but he is not a hack by any reasonable standard. As I recall, his analysis of the eavesdropping program was that based on what we know, it was probably illegal, albeit not unconstitutional. This analysis was to the 'left' of liberals such as Cass Sunstein, and, as best as I understand the issues as a non-legal academic, well argued and plausible (this was the reaction from other people working on this, with far better credentials than mine, at the time too, as I recall).
The same is true in a different way of Randy Barnett, whom I disagree with volubly on most things that he blogs about, but who seems intellectually consistent and thoughtful. Some people who 'seem' reasonable actually _are_ reasonable – that doesn't mean that any convergence of views is likely anytime soon, but it also doesn't mean that reasonableness is a shtick, and nothing more than a shtick.
Bruce Baugh 08.06.07 at 3:29 pm
Martin: I like the analogy. Another difference, of course, is that professional wrestlers work hard to entertain their audience :)
c.l. ball 08.06.07 at 4:54 pm
Whoa! This is more than prior restraint to speech — this is an issue of isolation to prevent the possibility of communication, and not about information (interrogation methods) illicitly acquired, but about information communicated by the government that you had no opportunity to refuse.
Prior restraint in the past has taken the form of court-issued injunctions (albeit ex parte against disclosure backed by the threat of contempt sanctions. The courts did not order persons imprisoned and denied communication.
The partial exception has been the accused in espionage cases in which the government has demanded that all communications — including those with attorneys — be monitored (e.g. King, Ho). Here, at least, they had consented to see information, and the restrictions (not bans) were designed to prevent furthering the crime for which they had been accused. In the terror detainee case, the crime is terrorism, not espionage, and there was no consent.
Anderson 08.07.07 at 3:23 pm
Second Henry re: Orin Kerr's intellectual honesty, and the fact that his critics upthread have deliberately omitted t discuss Kerr's stated concerns about civil liberties, does not speak well for *their* intellectual honesty.
Anderson, I've seen too many people support the Bush administration, while loudly shouting their support for freedom. That, in and of itself means nothing.
Barry, based on a few years of reading Kerr, he neither "supports the Bush administration" nor "loudly shouts his support for freedom."
I *have* seen too many people reduce everyone else to a "with us or against us" caricature, however.
Orin Kerr's "concern" about civil liberties? He just lightly touches on them, and then concludes from nowhere that "the basic idea of letting the government access those communications without a statutory warrant requirement seems appropriate".
Oh, and how his "sense of the threat" (which he spends half of the 2nd paragraph dwelling on) factors in this conclusion is anyone's guess. The Al Qaeda is 'somewhat' likely to plant a bomb in America, therefore the new legislation is appropriate?
And most importantly, despite waxing lyrical over how "we're talking policy here, not law", there's totally zero discussion on whether the measures actually make things safer? 9/11 wasn't even coordinated or conducted by means of any sort of Internet or phone communication, so where in the nine hells does anyone get the idea that monitoring people's phone calls and e-mail will prevent another 9/11? Kerr's arguments are totally tosh.
(Now Anderson can feel free to address this important issue of national security by launching some cheap potshots…)
Well, bi, you obviously Hate America.
vkrishna 08.08.07 at 12:23 am
I agree about Orin Kerr, that his stuff is pretty thoughtful and often worth reading and used to think the same of Randy Barnett until he put his name to that shameful amicus brief at the end of the Libby trial.
"I have seen too many people reduce everyone else to a "with us or against us" caricature, however."
Posted by Anderson
I'm not asking him to be 'with us'; I'm asking him to be against Bush. If he's not, then he should publicly recant any and all libertarian beliefs.


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