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Snow drifted down over the Bridge of No Return as communist riflemen watched from the surrounding hills. Odd Job, one of the guards, called CDR Bucher from his bus to identify the remains of Fireman Duane Hodges. The fireman’s body, wrapped tightly in gauze like a mummy, had been brought to the bridge in an ambulance. Attendants wearing white surgical masks lifted the coffin lid and peeled back the bandages so Bucher could see the face within.

Strategic communications means more than managing messaging. It means protecting reputation through intelligence capabilities.

CTRCS (Ret.) Roy Lamberton, USN, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Captain George P. McGinnis Memorial Award, as part of the Radio Club of America’s (RCA) 2025 annual awards program. The RCA proudly announced its 2025 award recipients and its incoming class of 2025 Fellows, continuing a tradition that dates back to 1935 of recognizing major contributors to wireless communications. This year, fourteen awards are being bestowed, and eight RCA members are being elevated to Fellow status.

The United States and Japan’s vague, ahistorical version of the “one China” policy is inflaming tensions with Beijing.

The recent escalation of tensions between Japan and China has revived and intensified a perennial debate on the international legal status of Taiwan. Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi drew a vociferous response from Beijing when she said publicly in early November that a Chinese use of force against Taiwan could be deemed “a situation that threatens Japan’s survival,” implying that it might lead to Japanese military intervention.

On December 22, 1968, North Korean officers entered CDR Bucher’s cell and ordered him to strip. A third officer—nicknamed Major Rectum—joined them and subjected Bucher to a body-cavity search that was “not entirely medical in character.” Once they were satisfied that he carried no contraband, the captors gave Bucher a new, lightweight uniform: a gray cotton jacket and trousers, a white shirt, and black sneakers—utterly inadequate for the Korean winter.