February 2010 - Argghhh!

Dear sir - since I'm guessing you would probably have an epic fail on a military whatziss, and, frankly, you damn well better be too busy to be hanging out here killing time,I thought I'd help you with a verbal construct that seems to be causing you some trouble. This is a corpseman. This is a corpsman. A Navy Corpsman in Iwo Jima treats a Marine with a severe chest wound. Life giving plasmanate flows from the bottle attached to the M1 rifle at right. still image from USMC combat camera filmCorpsmen...

Thanks to the USNI, I've spent major portions of the last three days at WEST 2010, "the the largest event on the West Coast for communications, electronics, intelligence, information systems, imaging, military weapon systems, aviation, shipbuilding, and more."What was I doing there? I never was able to come up with a satisfactory answer, despite being asked that repeatedly. I finally just gave up and said I was blogging for USNI (it was because USNI was a co-sponsor of the AVC conference...

A soldier cries during the funeral of Jon Felipe Romero Meneses on February 03, 2010 in Barcelona. Meneses, a Colombian member of the Spanish contingent, was killed in a mine explosion while six other soldiers were injured, after the armoured vehicle they were traveling in struck a powerful mine north of Qala-I-Naw in Badghis province in Afghanistan on February 01, 2010. AFP PHOTO/JOSEP LAGO/AFP/Getty Images Boq

Meet Horus, who fancies himself quite the ladies goat. SWWBO has an update on the critters of Argghhh! over at her place....

Mores in our military are changing...

There are four Medals awarded for action on this day, all of them in the modern era. Two were posthumous.WWII. Three very tough soldiers.*BIANCHI, WILLIBALD C. Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 45th Infantry, Philippine Scouts. Place and date: Near Bagac, Bataan Province, Philippine Islands, 3 February 1942. Entered service at: New Ulm, Minn. Birth: New Ulm, Minn. G.O. No.: 11, 5 March 1942. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in...

(Warning - Unsuitable language for Work) I hope that the monkey in the mantlepiece, isn't an allegory for something. Boq

Pillage and plunder! Commander's shares! And, since it happened *before* the collapse of the ancien régime, this looks like Kelley and Oddball might have been involved. Except that the 35th Infantry Division wasn't a part of the V Corps Anabasis.From: Gen. Raymond Odierno [lefrudis@mundivia.es]Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 7:18 PMTo: raymond.odierno@rocketmail.comSubject: From Gen Raymond OdiernoDEAR FRIEND,MY NAME IS GEN.ROYMOND ODIERNO, A U.S MILITARY OFFICER HERE IN IRAQ. ISEEK...