We are now celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the founding of SurvivalBlog. My first blog post was on August 5, 2005. That was just three weeks before the first report that Hurricane Katrina had formed. There are now 40,836 archived SurvivalBlog posts. That includes quotes, with Bible verses on every Saturday and Sunday. All of the blog archives will remain freely available. Thanks for spreading the word and making the blog such a great success. Our special thanks to the 2% of readers who voluntarily subscribe. I hope that more folks will recognize the usefulness of SurvivalBlog as a reference. I also hope that folks appreciate that we’ve posted daily, almost without fail, for all these years. Today, when more than half of what you see on the Internet is A.I. and bot-generated schlock, SurvivalBlog abides as one of the last of the old school human-written daily blogs, with integrity and a consistent editorial voice. Lord willing, I hope to continue the blog for another 20 years. Thanks again, and I wish you and your families God’s Providential Blessings, – JWR
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On August 6, 1819: Norwich University was founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
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On August 6, 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (spoken “one-seven”) was shot down while transporting an Immediate Reaction Force attempting to reinforce a Joint Special Operations Command unit of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Tangi Valley in Maidan Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan. The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board.
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Today’s short feature article is a guest post by Mrs. Alaska.
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We are now in need of entries for Round 120 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $960,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. Round 120 ends on September 30th, so get busy writing and e-mail us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging. In 2023, we polled blog readers, asking for suggested article topics. Please refer to that poll if you haven’t yet chosen an article topic.
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