April 17, 2012, Space Shuttle Discovery made its final flight, on its way to its new home at the Udvar-Hazy Center.

View images of Discovery over the Potomac River.

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"U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Brandon Mann, a dog handler with Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and native of Arlington, Texas, sights in with his infantry automatic rifle while providing security with Ty, an improvised explosive device detection dog, during a patrol here, Feb. 16, 2012.

"Marines and sailors with 1st LAR and India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, conducted clearing and disrupting operations in and around the villages of Sre Kala and Paygel during Operation Highland Thunder.

"Marines with 1st LAR led the operation on foot, sweeping for enemy weapons and drug caches through 324 square kilometers of rough, previously unoccupied desert and marshland terrain.

"Mobile units with1st LAR set up blocking positions and vehicle check points while India Company, 3/3 conducted helicopter inserts to disrupt insurgent freedom of movement."

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One hundred and one years ago today, Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born.

On this day last year, Command Posts started a series featuring articles about the president. Those articles—and more—are listed within this post.

As with all of our reading and viewing lists, we'll continue to update it in the future. If you have any suggestions for additional articles, images, books, and so on, please let us know.

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We've launched this reading and viewing list with author Clint Van Winkle's article about the film Red Tails and the real-life Tuskegee Airmen, and images of the airmen.

We'll continue to add images, video and reading suggestions to the list moving forward.

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