"Officially" they are of course, but the local governments of these particular territories (as for example Puerto Rico) are too corrupt and rife with foreign espionage and they lack the integrity and constitutionality to be accorded any true measure of "statehood" in the Union in good faith.

Any decent medical care to be had to save life or limb? Try one of those Palestinian hospitals the Jews are bombing for this very reason, that they habitually cut the hands off thieves and the feet off trespassers, and so much cutting around human flesh without skill.

The protection in the field is almost entirely that of camouflage dictated by the immediate surrounding appearance of woods and shrub brush, not uniform or command.

Not quite the allies we thought they were