May 5, 1998
Nothing in canon for the day. Unofficially,
The trailing elements of the 110th Guards Motor-Rifle Division descend to the southern slopes of the Alaska Range, under pressure from troops of the 10th Mountain (my 11th Airborne) Division, marking the successful eviction of Soviet troops from their strongest defensive line between Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Order in much of central and eastern England deteriorates with the withdrawal of 5th Division and 19 Infantry Brigade from civil relief duties for deployment to the continent.
The last US Pacific Fleet nuclear missile submarine, the USS Georgia, returns to port at Port Hadlock, Washington, joining ten other Trident boats in Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest.
The heavy equipment of the 46th Infanty Division (roughly one armored, one mechanized infantry and four truck-borne infantry battalions, plus two and a half battalions worth of artillery and other divisional combat support and service supportunits) departs Norfolk, Virginia aboard the American freighters Cape Turner and Baltimore Freedom and the (captured Greek and reflagged Panamanian) Manley Falmouth.
AWB terrorists continue to control wide swathes of the South African countryside; the SADF makes the drastic decision to incorporate former ANC (African National Congress) guerillas into regular units.
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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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