April 19, 1998
The town of Meadville, Pennsylvania suffers from food riots after its population, swelled by refugees, runs out of food following a period of reduced rations.
Unofficially,
Recently promoted Specialist Randolph Cutler suffers a minor injury when he checks on his reheating MRE. His lit cigarette ignites the hydrogen gas given off by the MRE's flameless heater, inflicting minor flash burns to his face. (In later years he will grow a beard to conceal the scars from the burns.)
The polar bears return to the small group of Russian sailors from the Barrikada in the early hours (there is midnight sun by this time) and attack. The lone awake sentry is killed, and only one of the sleeping sailors escapes.
RainbowSix reports that the remnants of the British element of the Allied Mobile Force arrives in South Shields aboard the DFDS ferry “Princess of Scandinavia”, from where they move to Catterick to refit and rebuild.
Thousands of Afrikaaners supporting the neo-nazi AWB right-wing movement turn out in protests in Johannesburg, South Africa to protest the death of eight of their comrades in a police raid. Many of the men are armed.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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