place_of_death richard t. davis
___MASK64___ (, also , ; ' ), also known as Persia , officially the Islamic Republic of ___MASK64___ (' ), is a sovereign state in Western ___MASK90___ . It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia , the " de facto " Nagorno - Karabakh Republic , and Azerbaijan ; to the north by the Caspian Sea ; to the northeast by Turkmenistan ; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan ; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman ; and to the west by Turkey and Iraq . Comprising a land area of , it is the second - largest country in the Middle East and the 18th - largest in the world . With 82 . 8 million inhabitants , ___MASK64___ is the world ' s 17th - most - populous country . It is the only country with both a Caspian Sea and an Indian Ocean coastline . The country ' s central location in Eurasia and Western ___MASK90___ , and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz , make it of great geostrategic importance . Tehran is the country ' s capital and largest city , as well as its leading economic center . ___MASK96___ is a United States Army base straddling the ___MASK5___ - Georgia border next to ___MASK97___ , Georgia . ___MASK96___ supports more than 120 , 000 active - duty military , family members , reserve component soldiers , retirees , and civilian employees on a daily basis . It is a power projection platform , and possesses the capability to deploy combat - ready forces by air , rail , and highway . ___MASK96___ is the home of the United States Army Maneuver Center of Excellence , the United States Army Armor School , United States Army Infantry School , the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation ( formerly known as the School of the Americas ), elements of the 75th Ranger Regiment , 3rd Brigade  3rd Infantry Division , and many other additional tenant units . Military personnel in ___MASK96___ have been taught Choi Kwang Do under grandmaster Kwang Jo Choi for purposes in military combat . ___MASK83___ (, or ; '; '), officially known as the Republic of ___MASK83___ ('; ') is a country in Western ___MASK90___ , bordered by Turkey to the north , Iran to the east , Kuwait to the southeast , Saudi Arabia to the south , Jordan to the southwest , and Syria to the west . The capital , and largest city , is Baghdad . The main ethnic groups are Arabs and Kurds ; others include Assyrians , Turkmen , Shabakis , Yazidis , Armenians , Mandeans , Circassians , and Kawliya . Around 95 % of the country ' s 36 million citizens are Muslims , with Christianity , Yarsan , Yezidism , and Mandeanism also present . The official languages of ___MASK83___ are Arabic and Kurdish . ___MASK19___ (; ', , " Kimi "), officially the Arab Republic of ___MASK19___ , is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of ___MASK90___ by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula . ___MASK19___ is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast , the Gulf of Aqaba to the east , the Red Sea to the east and south , Sudan to the south , and Libya to the west . Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan , and across from the Sinai Peninsula lies Saudi Arabia , although Jordan and Saudi Arabia do not share a land border with ___MASK19___ . It is the world ' s only contiguous Afrasian nation . The United States Army Armor School is a training school located at ___MASK96___ , ___MASK24___ . Its primary focus is the training of United States Army soldiers , NCOs , and commissioned officers in the operation , tactics , and maintenance of Armor forces and equipment , including the M1 Abrams main ___MASK40___ tank , the Bradley Fighting Vehicle , assorted crew - served and personal weapons , and various other equipment including radios . The school is also the site where U . S . Marines are sent for training on the Abrams tank . The Armor School moved to ___MASK96___ in 2010 as part of the United States ' BRAC program . An invasion is a military offensive in which large parts of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity , generally with the objective of either conquering , liberating or ___MASK99___ - establishing control or authority over a territory , forcing the partition of a country , altering the established government or gaining concessions from said government , or a combination thereof . An invasion can be the cause of a war , be a part of a larger strategy to end a war , or it can constitute an entire war in itself . Due to the large scale of the operations associated with invasions , they are usually strategic in planning and execution . The Continental Army was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the ___MASK9___ . Established by a resolution of the Congress on June 14 , 1775 , it was created to coordinate the military efforts of the Thirteen Colonies in their revolt against the rule of Great Britain . The Continental Army was supplemented by local militias and troops that remained under control of the individual states or were otherwise independent . General ___MASK78___ Washington was the commander - in - chief of the army throughout the war . The American Revolutionary War ( 17751783 ), also referred to as the American War of ___MASK37___ and the Revolutionary War in the United States , was an armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies that after onset of the war declared ___MASK37___ as the ___MASK9___ . ___MASK5___ is a state in the southeastern region of the United States . It is bordered by Tennessee to the north , Georgia to the east , Florida and the Gulf of ___MASK33___ to the south , and Mississippi to the west . ___MASK5___ is the 30th - most extensive and the 24th - most populous of the U . S . states . At nearly , ___MASK5___ has one of the nation ' s longest navigable inland waterways . ___MASK17___ is the capital of the Republic of ___MASK83___ . The population of ___MASK17___ , , is approximately 7 . 216 . 040 making it the largest city in ___MASK83___ , the second largest city in the Arab world ( after Cairo , ___MASK19___ ), and the second largest city in Western ___MASK90___ ( after Tehran , Iran ). The United States Army ( USA ) is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land - based military operations . It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution , Article 2 , Section 2 , Clause 1 and United States Code , Title 10 , Subtitle B , Chapter 301 , Section 3001 . As the largest and senior branch of the U . S . military , the modern U . S . Army has its roots in the Continental Army , which was formed ( 14 June 1775 ) to fight the American Revolutionary War ( 1775  1783 ) before the U . S . was established as a country . After the Revolutionary War , the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 , to replace the disbanded Continental Army . The United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army , and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775 . Specialist Richard T . Davis ( ___MASK18___ 14 , 1978 -- July 15 , 2003 ) was an Infantryman in the United States Army . The son of two US Army veterans , Lanny and Remy Davis , he was born on an Army base in Germany . Davis enlisted in the Army in 1998 and served in Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia and later in the ___MASK83___ War , where he and his comrades participated in the April 11 , 2003 , `` Midtown Massacre , '' a five - hour firefight in downtown Baghdad . On July 15 , 2003 , less than two days after returning from deployment to ___MASK83___ , Davis was murdered outside ___MASK96___ , Georgia by a fellow soldier from Baker Company , Alberto Martinez . Three other soldiers were also present and involved in the events that led up to the killing and followed the killing . Initially , the Army concluded that Davis deserted and despite pleas from Davis ' father , would not initiate an investigation into his son ' s disappearance for nearly two months . Davis ' remains were not found until November 2003 . He had been stabbed in the head , neck , and chest at least thirty - three times . His body was later dismembered , doused in lighter fluid , and burned . Unnamed sources have suggested that Davis was killed because he had planned to make a complaint about a rape of an Iraqi woman by US troops . On February 17 , 2004 , Mario Navarette , Alberto Martinez , Jacob Burgoyne , and Douglas Woodcoff were indicted by Georgia authorities for the murder . Burgoyne pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 20 years in prison . Woodcoff pled guilty to concealing the death of another and was sentenced to probation . At trial , Navarette was convicted of felony murder while in the commission of an aggravated assault , aggravated assault , possession of a knife during the commission of a crime , and concealing the death of another . Martinez was convicted of the same charges and malice murder . Navarette and Martinez were both sentenced to life plus fifteen years in prison . The story of Davis ' s murder garnered national attention because he was killed by fellow soldiers and because of the possible role of post traumatic stress disorder as a factor in the crime . Davis ' s murder was the inspiration for the 2007 Academy Award - nominated film , In the Valley of Elah . The United States Army Infantry School is located at ___MASK96___ , ___MASK24___ , is a school dedicated to training infantrymen for service in the United States Army . The Congress of the Confederation , or the Confederation Congress , formally referred to as the United States in Congress Assembled , was the governing body of the ___MASK9___ that existed from March 1 , 1781 , to March 4 , 1789 . It comprised delegates appointed by the legislatures or assemblies of the several states . It was preceded by the Second Continental Congress ( 1775  1781 ) and governed under the newly adopted " Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union ", which were proposed 1776  1777 , adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1778 and finally agreed to by a unanimous vote of all thirteen states by 1781 , held up by a long dispute over the cession of western territories beyond the Appalachian Mountains to the central government led by Maryland and a coalition of smaller states without western claims . The newly reorganized Congress at the time continued to refer itself as the Continental Congress throughout its eight - year history , although modern historians separate it from the earlier bodies , which operated under slightly different rules and procedures until the later part of American Revolutionary War . The membership of the Second Continental Congress automatically carried over to the Congress of the Confederation when the latter was created by the ratification of the Articles of Confederation . It had the same secretary as the Second Continental Congress , namely Charles Thomson . The Congress of the Confederation was succeeded by the Congress of the United States as provided for in the Constitution of the United States , proposed September 17 , 1787 , in Philadelphia and ratified by the states through 1787 to 1788 and even into 1789 and 1790 . The Code of Laws of the ___MASK9___ ( variously abbreviated to Code of Laws of the United States , United States Code , U . S . Code , or U . S . C .) is the official compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States . It contains 52 titles , and a further three titles have been proposed . The main edition is published every six years by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives , and cumulative supplements are published annually . The official version of those laws not codified in the United States Code can be found in United States Statutes at Large . Saddam Hussein Abd al - Majid al - Tikriti ( Arabic : ""; 28 April 1937  30 December 2006 ) was the fifth President of ___MASK83___ , serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003 . A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party , and later , the Baghdad - based Ba ' ath Party and its regional organization the Iraqi Ba ' ath Party  which espoused Ba ' athism , a mix of Arab nationalism and socialism  Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup ( later referred to as the 17 July Revolution ) that brought the party to power in ___MASK83___ . Western ___MASK90___ , West ___MASK90___ , Southwestern ___MASK90___ or Southwest ___MASK90___ is the westernmost subregion of ___MASK90___ . The concept is in limited use , as it significantly overlaps with the Middle East ( or Near East ), the main difference being the exclusion of Egypt ( which would be counted as part of North Africa ). The term is sometimes used for the purposes of grouping countries in statistics . Choi Kwang Jo ( born ___MASK18___ 2 , 1942 ) is a former South Korean national champion in taekwondo , and is one of the twelve original masters of taekwondo of the Korea Taekwon - Do Association . Following a career in the South Korean military , he emigrated to the ___MASK9___ in 1970 . Choi is the founder and head of the Choi Kwang Do international martial art organization , with headquarters in Atlanta , Georgia , USA . The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation ( WHINSEC ), formerly known as the US Army School of the Americas ( SOA ), is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at ___MASK96___ near ___MASK97___ , Georgia , that provides military training to government personnel in US - allied Latin American nations . The ___MASK83___ War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of ___MASK83___ by a United States - led coalition that toppled the government of Saddam Hussein . The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post - invasion Iraqi government . An estimated 151 , 000 to 600 , 000 or more Iraqis were killed in the first 3  4 years of conflict . The United States officially withdrew from the country in 2011 but left private security contractors in its place to continue the war . It again became ___MASK99___ - involved in 2014 at the head of a new coalition ; the insurgency and many dimensions of the civil armed conflict continue . The ___MASK9___ has seven federal uniformed services that commission officers as defined by Title 10 , and subsequently structured and organized by Title 10 , Title 14 , Title 32 and Title 42 of the United States Code . ___MASK25___ ( " Tehrn ") is the capital of ___MASK64___ and ___MASK25___ Province . With a population of around 9 million in the city and 16 million in the wider metropolitan area , ___MASK25___ is the ___MASK98___ populous city of ___MASK64___ , the 2nd - ___MASK98___ populous city in Western ___MASK90___ and the 3rd - largest metropolitan area in the Middle East . It is ranked 29th in the world by the population of its metropolitan area . ___MASK77___ (; ', ') is the capital and largest city of ___MASK19___ . The city ' s metropolitan area is the largest in the Middle East and the Arab world , and 15th - largest in the world , and is associated with ancient ___MASK19___ , as the famous Giza pyramid complex and the ancient city of Memphis are located in its geographical area . Located near the Nile Delta , modern ___MASK77___ was founded in 969 CE by Jawhar al - Siqilli (" the Sicilian ") of the Fatimid dynasty , but the land composing the present - day city was the site of ancient national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old ___MASK77___ . ___MASK77___ has long been a center of the region ' s political and cultural life , and is nicknamed " the city of a thousand minarets " for its preponderance of Islamic architecture . ___MASK97___ is a city in the U . S . state of Georgia and the county seat of Muscogee County , with which it is consolidated . According to the 2013 estimates from the U . S . Census Bureau , ___MASK97___ has a population of 202 , 824 residents , with 316 , 554 in the greater ___MASK97___ - Phenix City metropolitan area . The metro area joins the nearby Alabama cities of Auburn and Opelika to form the ___MASK97___ - Auburn - Opelika Combined Statistical Area , which has an estimated population of 501 , 649 . ___MASK97___ is directly to the east across the Chattahoochee River from Phenix City , Alabama . Situated at the heart of the Chattahoochee Valley , ___MASK97___ is Georgia ' s second - largest city and fourth - largest metropolitan area . The Arab world ('; formally : '), also known as the Arab nation (""), consists of the 22 Arabic - speaking countries of the Arab League . These Arab states occupy an area stretching from the ___MASK87___ in the west to the Arabian ___MASK12___ in the east , and from the Mediterranean ___MASK12___ in the north to the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean in the southeast . The contemporary Arab world has a combined population of around 422 million people , over half of whom are under 25 years of age .