Category: American Military

June 5, 2010

The Tears of a Grateful Nation

Filed under: American Military - 05 Jun 2010

I’ll never forget, as a young, brand new mom, burying my dad, a veteran of WWII and the Korean War. The gun-salute, the bugle playing, the folding of the flag that lay on his coffin, the young soldier handing that …

April 23, 2010

Fort Hood Cover Up Denied by Secretary Gates

Filed under: American Military,In The News,War On Terror - 23 Apr 2010

A ranking US congressman said that he is concerned that President Barack Obama and his administration is being less than forthcoming with details of the Fort Hood Massacre and is withholding requested information.

March 6, 2010

Don’t Ask, Don’t Bleed

The U.S. military has always discriminated. There are a host of malignant behaviors such as illicit drug use or habitual criminality that can render a person ineligible to serve. As my father-in-law learned, there are also benign maladies such as …

February 20, 2010

Change Our Military Can’t Believe In

Filed under: American Military,Politics In General - 20 Feb 2010

Many gays and lesbians serve honorably in today’s military. That is no secret. It is also no secret that open homosexuality within the ranks could hinder unit cohesion, reduce war-fighting capability, and place our troops at greater risk. No wishful …

January 9, 2010

Intelligence, Armed Forces a Single Team, Say President and Military Chief

Filed under: American Military,War On Terror - 09 Jan 2010

The attack last week on a Central Intelligence Agency outpost in Afghanistan’s Khost Province near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border called attention to the ultimate sacrifice sometimes paid by intelligence and law enforcement personnel engaged in counter terrorism operations.

December 9, 2009

Save The Seals

Filed under: American Military,War On Terror - 09 Dec 2009

Everyday we hear and see more and more atrocities committed not by a foreign enemy but from the Socialists coo coo birds who are trying with all their power to run our beloved Country of The United States of America, …

December 4, 2009

Afghan Surge: British Troops Deploy, Obama Sermonizes

Filed under: American Military,In The News - 04 Dec 2009

After months of what’s become termed “dithering,” President Barack Obama is prepared to unveil his long-awaited Afghan plan tonight on prime time television. Meanwhile, United Kingdom military forces are already prepared for their troop deployment including manpower, weapons, tactical vehicles …

November 10, 2009

Commander in Thief

Filed under: American Military,In The News - 10 Nov 2009

After wall-to-wall media coverage of the terrorist attack at the Fort Hood Army Post in Texas, our Commander-in-Chief found it expedient to squeeze a few words about the devastating attack, on one of America’s prominent military bases, into …

November 6, 2009

Pentagon Must Improve Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Efforts

Filed under: American Military - 06 Nov 2009

A weapon in Iraq and Afghanistan that continues to kill and maim American and coalition soldiers is the Improvised Explosive Device, or IED.

October 16, 2009

The Keepers of the Peace

By: David Bozeman

With all due respect to our commander-in-chief, mindful of the enormous burdens he carries, the American soldier has done far more to establish world peace than Nobel Prize winner Barack Obama.

October 5, 2009

Obama Forces Our Veterans to Question if Their Life is “Worth Living”

Filed under: American Military,In The News - 05 Oct 2009

First President Obama’s Homeland Security department accused our veterans of being right-wing extremists and potential terrorists. Now his Veterans Affairs (VA) agency is advocating euthanasia and forcing our veterans to question if their live has any value.

October 2, 2009

Obama, The Procrastinator

Filed under: American Military,What The F@#K?!? - 02 Oct 2009

By: William P. Frasca

So our President, Barrack Hussein Obama, “the chosen one” has decided that having the Olympics in his home town of Chicago is far more important than any and all domestic quality of life issues directly affecting the …

September 19, 2009

Sorry Jocelyn, Cpl. John Harrison Can’t Save You

NY Times Ingratitude Continues

By Jen Shroder

Jocelyn Enriquez, mother of 4, was kidnapped six months ago allegedly by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Manila. Unfortunately, Cpl. John Harrison, 29, won’t be there to rescue her, he was killed saving Stephen …

September 5, 2009

My Blue Star Brother in the Military National Guard

Filed under: American Military - 05 Sep 2009

By Michael A Ferguson

This is my personal interest piece on a very special person who happens to be my twin brother. He is in the Army military national guard. I am writing this, I guess, as sort of a way …

August 10, 2009

More I Learned Between Wars

Filed under: American Military - 10 Aug 2009

You might wish to read or reread the first installment of this story as I don’t propose to rehash it here.

Shortly after I took command of my National Guard unit, I began wandering around through the armory during drill time, …

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