Powell's reputation, however, was marred by his 2003 address to the United Nations Security Council in which he cited faulty intelligence information to claim that Iragi President Saddam Hussein secretly possessed, or was developing, weapons of mass destruction, and posed a major regional and global threat. (It was in Pakistan where bin Laden would be killed nearly 10 years later.) in going after the Afghanistan-based terror group. He was the first American official to publicly blame Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, and he flew to Pakistan to demand that then-President Pervez Musharraf cooperate with the U.S. His tenure at the State Department was largely defined by the aftermath of the Sept. Bush as Secretary of State, the nation's first Black head diplomat. He later joined the administration of President George W. invasion of Kuwait led by President George H.W.
He would serve as a military assistant to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, commander of the Army's 5th Corps in Germany, and national security assistant to President Ronald Reagan, before becoming the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, overseeing the 1991 U.S.
Kennedy, receiving a Medal of Valor for going back into a burning helicopter to rescue others. He was one of more than 16,000 military advisers sent to South Vietnam by President John F. Powell spent 35 years in the Army, rising to the rank of four-star general. When he put on his first uniform, he wrote (in his 1995 autobiography "My American Journey"), "I liked what I saw." Colin Powell (April 5, 1937-October 18, 2021) often shared his personal story as that of the only child of Jamaican immigrants, whose not-very-promising start in the South Bronx took a turn when he discovered the ROTC at City College. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery. Mark Reinstein, Corbis via Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. However, Janeway decides to risk Voyager's shortcut home in order to destroy the Borg and save millions of lives.Joint Chiefs Chairman General Colin Powell delivers a briefing about Operation Desert Shield, January 24, 1991.
Star trek voyager season 4 episode 18 series#
Finally, in the series finale "Endgame," Voyager's quest to return home is aided by a visitor from the future: Admiral Kathryn Janeway. The Doctor also faces some difficult dilemmas, including being torn between his duty to Voyager and his conscience when warrior holograms rebel against their Hirogen creators in "Flesh & Blood" Parts 1 and 2. In "Prophecy," a group of Klingons separated from the rest of their race believes B'Elanna's unborn child is the Savior foretold in their sacred scrolls. Her relationship with Tom is put in jeopardy when he decides to enter a race in "Imperfection." In "Lineage," she is strangely disturbed by her unborn child's Klingon traits. The seventh and final season of Star Trek: Voyager begins where the previous season ended, with Janeway facing a deadly encounter with the Borg Queen as she is headed towards assimilation in "Unimatrix Zero, Part II." B'Elanna faces many personal challenges this season.
0 kommentar(er)
