May 26, 1998
Nothing in canon for the day. Unofficially,
Overwhelmed by the demands of the job and by the emotions invoked by the prior day's Memorial Day commemoration (a particularly solemn occasion given the nation's losses in the past 18 months), President June R. Flaherty, America's first female President, commits suicide.
In Mexico, the PRI (the semi-authoritarian party that ruled the country for over 75 years prior to the unrest of the mid-90s) calls for the caretaker government to step down, the military to restore order in the capital and the nation to demand dignified treatment of its citizens over the border in the U.S. The appeal is widely popular, but denounced by the PAN party (which holds the reins of the caretaker government) as posturing and detached from the reality of trying to govern a shattered nation.
Following the capture of the bridges over the Danube at Erbach an der Donau, 41st Army shifts its main line of effort to the northwest, heading for Stuttgart. Having taken a beating in the Danube crossing operations, it is reinforced by the Italian 3rd Corps on its western flank.
Engineers assigned to the 29th Infantry Division (Light) in Yemen restore the operation of one of the Aden refinery's extraction units, turning out 8,800 barrels of diesel, kerosene and gasoline daily. The unit requires a regular supply of Kuwaiti crude and waterborne service to take the product away; cleaning requirements dictate that these be on different tankers, or at least in separate tanks serviced by separate pumps and piping aboard a single tanker.
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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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