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B. R. Lang, March, 1970
B. R. Lang, March, 1970

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[edit] Image tagging for Image:Dr Bruce Rusty Lang MD

Sergeant Bruce Rusty Lang, March 1970, (now Dr. B. R. Lang, M.D., Christian international physician) United States Army Special Forces, 6th Special Forces Group. Image:Dr B R Lang March 1970.jpg.

Photo of Dr. B. R. Lang, my photographic snap-shot by Sgt. Mike Hicks on my camera near Ft. Bragg, N.C. This image is not copyrighted and has never been published.

The photo was taken while Lang was assembled with other SF paratroopers from the 6th SFG who were prepared as the first team to test jump the jumbo C-5A Galaxy jet transport aircraft. Moments after this photo was taken Sgt. Lang was pulled from the jump team for immediate covert teporary duty deployment in the Royal Kingdom of Laos [Project 404] as an Assistant Army Attaché to the Laotian U.S. Embassy in what has been called the CIA's "Secret War" in Laos.

Three days after this photo was taken, on March 18, 1970, Lang and two other Special Forces cryptographic telecommunications specialists from the 6th SFG arrived in Vientiane, Laos, wearing civilian cloths and carrying diplomatic passports as Assistant Army Attachés to the the U.S. Embassy. They arrived in Laos on a Thai civilian aircraft loaded with plaincloths clad military "Thai volunteers" headed for the Secret War. While in Laos, Sgt. Lang was primarily based in Long Tieng (LS 20A). Sgt. Lang earned his first Army Air Medal in Laos for frequent flying as a customer on Air America, the CIA's covert proprietary airline. Lang was blessed several times at Basi blessings by Lao General Vang Pao of the Hmong people and his family, and met other notable individuals such as Pop Buels, Tom Cline, and several other colorful characters in the process of working in and around areas occupied by approximately 30,000 to 60,000 communist North Vietnamese Army troops inside Laos with their Pathet Lao comrades.

This photo shows the 6th Special Forces Group (6th SFG) flash on the Green beret worn by Lang. In 1969-72 the 6th SFG was based at Ft. Bragg, N.C., and primarily assigned to countries such as Iraq and neighboring middle-eastern Areas of Operation.

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Sergeant Bruce Rusty Lang, United States Army 6th Special Forces Group, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, prior to temporary duty deployment to "Project 404" as an Assistant Army Attache (AARMA) to the U.S. Embassy in Laos. (now Dr. Bruce Rusty Lang, M.D., Christian international physician)
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self-made
Date

March 15, 1970
Author

Dr. Bruce Rusty Lang, M.D.
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(Reusing this image)

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[edit] Licensing

Public domain I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible,

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Chad Adams

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[edit] AfD nomination of B. Rusty Lang

I have nominated B. Rusty Lang, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B. Rusty Lang. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Clamster 03:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles and conflict of interest

I'm writing you to inform you of wikipedia's WP:COI guidelines. Generally speaking, it is highly discouraged to edit in situations that pose a conflict of interest. This goes from creating an article about yourself, from adding to multiple articles references to a non-notable paper you wrote over 15 years ago. Please stop editing wikipedia to promote yourself, and consider reading up on our key policies, especially WP:BIO, WP:OR, WP:V, WP:CS, and WP:N. I have reverted a number of your edits, and deleted articles that do not meet out inclusion guidelines. Please feel free to discuss these matters further with me, or if you have any questions about how wikipedia works, please contact me. If you insist on attempting to include references to content which you yourself authored, then please make your proposal on the talk page so that users who don't share your conflict of interest can objectively determine of the content is appropriate or not. Thanks for your consideration.-Andrew c [talk] 03:58, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Hello, Dr. B. R. Lang, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Please take some time to read over Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Your contributions to medical articles are welcome, but Wikipedia discourages editors from writing biographical articles about themselves. Regards, ˉˉanetode╦╩ 16:43, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your CV

Please stop posting your CV to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B. Rusty Lang, or in fact, anywhere on wikipedia besides your own user page (which is located at User:Dr. B. R. Lang. Wikipedia is an online, free encyclopedia, and is not monster.com or any other place to post your resume or otherwise promote yourself. Please stop. Also, the page which you have been editing, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B. Rusty Lang is a closed discussion, and it is inappropriate to add further to the page. If you disagree with the outcome, you are welcome to go through WP:DRV. I'd be glad to help you understand wikipedia if you would like to become a productive editor. So please, ask questions if you have any. Thanks.-Andrew c [talk] 20:27, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

If you have a problem with the RU-486 article, or merely wish to add some information, you are free to edit it. Simply edit the Mifepristone article and its talk page to add the relevant commentary. Any content is welcome, so long as it is framed in a neutral point of view and backed up by references to reliable sources. However I urge you to stop posting your CV with every comment, it is unnecessary to provide proof of expertise to edit Wikipedia and posting personal data to unrelated pages may confuse editors. If you need any help with editing the Mifepristone article, or wish to learn more about editorial guidelines, please don't hesitate to ask. Cheers, ˉˉanetode╦╩ 21:14, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
P.S. I should have checked on this first, but it appears that your edit is already under discussion at Talk:Mifepristone#Addition_to_controversy_section. Please add your input there. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 21:23, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Please refrain from adding information about yourself to articles, doing so implies a conflict of interest on your part. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 20:01, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Westboro Baptist Church, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. The information is already present. Please leave this article alone unless truly constructive edits are added Carter | Talk to me 16:00, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:African American topics

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In the future, when you make changes to that template could you please make similar changes to Template:Aacollapsible and Template:Aafooter, which are variations of Template:African American topics? We try to keep the same links in all three navigation templates.

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[edit] Leonard G. Horowitz

You recently added a section header at an inappropriate point and with questionable wording to the article about Leonard Horowitz. I reverted the edit, and discuss why I did so at the talk page for the article.

Here, I would only issue you a friendly challenge. If we're to believe your resume, you must be in possession of unusual reserves of self-discipline. Could you expend a little from that reserve in the interests of an objective treatment of Dr. Horowitz? My own feelings should be clear to you from where I've been in open Wikipedia discussion of this man, but I'll reiterate for your convenience: I think Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz is despicably amoral if he is sane, truly pathetic if he is not sane. I don't know which; I don't really care at this point. For better or worse, however, I believe he has become notable, and if so, the public deserves an unbiased treatment of him.

If you wish to protest my revert of your edit, please go to the discussion page for the article and tell people there why. If you want to make any other edits, please read the article thoroughly, read the discussion of the article (both at its talk page and at the discussion of its possible deletion). Then, if you still think it's appropriate, make the edits without doing violence to the structure of the article, with as much NPOV as you can muster.

[edit] May 2008

Thanks for experimenting with the page Laos on Wikipedia. Your recent edit appears to have added incorrect information, and has been reverted or removed. All information in the encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable published source. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 15:03, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your response, I stand corrected. In the future, however, make sure you add references when you change information (if possible). Bob the Wikipedian (talk) 13:51, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at User talk:Dr. B. R. Lang, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 00:50, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Bruce Rusty Lang March 1970.jpg

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[edit] Avoiding redirects

Currently our article about the Vietnam War is at Vietnam War. If you think it should be moved to "Second Indochina War", you can raise that proposal at Talk:Vietnam War. In the meantime, Second Indochina War merely redirects to Vietnam War, so, under our policy of avoiding redirects, changing the wikilink as you did here and elsewhere is inappropriate. JamesMLane t c 15:35, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Second Indochina War or "Vietnam"

James, Thanks for your input and note re. redirects. The term "Vietnam War", or "Vietnam" is a distinctly provincial U.S. perspective of that era of the Second Indochina War and the Cold War. The French, and most of Europe are more familiar with the First and Second wars in "Indochina". Some Vietnamese refer to the later as the "American War". Part of the problem people have in understanding the history of that war is that many Americans persist in using the U.S.A.-centric term that's primarily based upon years of daily televised news coverage that norrowly focused on U.S. participation in the "conflict" in Viet Nam. Thanks again. Keep up the great work! Best regards, Rusty Dr. B. R. Lang (talk) 16:11, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings from WikiProject Medicine!

Welcome to WikiProject Medicine!

I noticed you recently added yourself to our Participants' list, and I wanted to welcome you to our project. Our goal is to facilitate collaboration on medicine-related articles, and everyone is welcome to join (regardless of medical qualifications!). Here are some suggested activities:

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page, or feel free to ask me on my talk page.

Again, welcome!  --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:58, 9 June 2008 (UTC)