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Under Armour and Curry Brand Celebrate a Good Weekend in the Bay

Under Armour and Curry Brand came together to celebrate 11-time NBA All-Star and now 2-time All-Star MVP Stephen Curry during basketball’s biggest weekend in San Francisco. With the festivities in Curry’s backyard this year, the brands showed up big time in the Bay with multiple activations, collaborations and unique product releases to show love for his legacy and remind basketball fans everywhere of their love for the game.

Curry Brand Makes Good on Community Impact Commitments

This past weekend, Curry Brand celebrated its 20th court refurbishment at McClymonds High School in Oakland, CA, fulfilling its commitment to renovate 20 safe places to play by 2025. With this final court completion, Curry Brand has officially made good on all of its community impact goals set in December 2020, renovating 20 courts, training 15,000 coaches and supporting 125 programs to ultimately impact 300,000 kids around the world.

Justin Jefferson Gives Back to His Community in New Orleans Ahead of Super Bowl LIX

Minnesota Vikings wide receiver and Under Armour athlete Justin Jefferson returned to his alma mater, Destrehan High School, on Thursday, February 6, to host a community event designed to inspire and empower the next generation of athletes.

Curry Brand Welcomes Davion Mitchell to Its Athlete Roster

Relentless. That’s the word that comes to mind when watching NBA point guard Davion Mitchell on the basketball court. His athleticism, his speed, his defensive mentality, his competitiveness and desire to be the best, all point back to that word.

Under Armour Launches Shadow 3

Under Armour has once again raised the bar in athletic performance with the debut of the UA Shadow 3 soccer cleat. Designed for players who push boundaries with every sprint, cut, and strike, the UA Shadow 3 redefines what it means to dominate the field.

Under Armour Unveils First-Ever UA Next All-America Collabora

On this day in aviation history, February 22, 1928, Australian aviator Bert Hinkler completed the first solo flight between England and Australia. Famed for his long-distance flights, Bert Hinkler demonstrated the viability of the burgeoning air routes connecting the United Kingdom to Australia, one of the most geographically distant members of the British Commonwealth.

Born Herbert Hinkler on December 8, 1892, in Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, Bert Hinkler developed his interest in aviation at an early age, joining the Queensland Aero Club in 1910, and in 1911 and 1912, he built two monoplane gliders and tested them from the Mon Repos Beach in Bundaberg. Later in 1912, he met American aviator Arthur Burr Stone, who was putting on exhibition tours in Australia with a Bleriot XI monoplane, which Hinkler soon found working on as Stone’s mechanic. In 1913, Hinkler sailed for England and gained employment in the Sopwith Aviation Factory.

When WWI broke out in 1914, Bert Hinkler enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) on September 7, 1914. During his early service, he proved himself to be an expert marksman as a gunner/observer while serving over France. After being commended with the Distinguished Service Medal, Hinkler was trained to fly as a pilot and finished the First World War serving with No. 28 Squadron RAF in Italy, flying against the forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After the war, Hinkler tried his luck with the race to be the first to fly from England to Australia, in order to win a prize of £A10,000 offered by the Commonwealth Government of Australia. Planning to fly solo in a Sopwith Dove, a two-seat civilian version of the Sopwith Pup fighter, his request was rejected, and Hinkler decided to pick up work at the Avro airplane factory in Manchester, England. In 1920, Hinkler purchased an Avro Baby sporting biplane, powered by a 35 hp Green C.4 four-cylinder inline engine. With this aircraft Hinkler set two long-range flight spe

American sports clothing and accessories company

Under Armour, Inc. is an American sportswear company that manufactures footwear and apparel headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

History

20th century

Under Armour was founded on September 25, 1996, by Kevin Plank, a then-24 year old former special teams captain of the University of Maryland football team. Plank initially began the business from his grandmother's basement in Washington, D.C. He spent his time traveling along the East Coast with nothing but apparel in the trunk of his car. His first team sale came at the end of 1996 with a $17,000 sale. From his grandmother's Washington, D.C.-area rowhouse, Plank moved to Baltimore.

As a fullback at the University of Maryland, Plank got tired of having to change out of the sweat-soaked T-shirts worn under his jersey; however, he noticed that his compression shorts worn during practice stayed dry. This inspired him to make a T-shirt using moisture-wicking synthetic fabric.

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Australian involvement in the Vietnam War

Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War began with a small commitment of 30 military advisors in 1962, and increased over the following decade to a peak of 7,672 Australian personnel following the Menzies Government's April 1965 decision to upgrade its military commitment to South Vietnam's security. By the time the last Australian personnel were withdrawn in 1972, the Vietnam War had become Australia's longest war, eventually being surpassed by Australia's long-term commitment to the War in Afghanistan. It remains Australia's largest force contribution to a foreign conflict since the Second World War, and was also the most controversial military action in Australia since the conscription controversy during World War I. Although initially enjoying broad support due to concerns about the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, an increasingly influential anti-war movement developed, particularly in response to the government's imposition of conscription.

The withdrawal of Australia's forces from South Vietnam began in November 1970, under the Gorton Government, when 8 RAR completed its tour of duty and was not replaced. A phased withdrawal followed and, by 11 January 1973, Australian involvement in hostilities in Vietnam had ceased. Nevertheless, Australian troops from the Australian Embassy Platoon remained deployed in the country until 1 July 1973, and Australian forces were deployed briefly in April 1975, during the fall of Saigon, to evacuate personnel from the Australian embassy. Approximately 60,000 Australians served in the war: 521 were killed and more than 3,000 were wounded.

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Main article: Vietnam War

See also: Ngô Đình Diệm presidential visit to Australia and Ngô Đình Diệm presidential visit to the United States

Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War was driven largely by the rise of communism in Southeast