October 2013 - Argghhh!

As someone put it: "He looks like a Feral Nun". BOQ

As Steve Schippert noted on Facebook: "Your context: Death benefits of all things were chosen to be cut by Pentagon civilian leadership. Not Congress. No matter how NBC's long report failed to explain this while framing it's report around Democrats saying how awful it is and clips of Republicans vowing to fix it. They tried really hard to leave the impression republicans are to blame when in fact Harry Reid isn't even to blame. It was the appointed civilian leadership who chose that...

Vets may be chased away by dogs, Chaplains may be threatened with prison, but at least our Army is getting a brand spanking new Mechanical Bull. Article: HERE BOQ

Waiting for the order from President Clinton to impose a UN-directed government under his leadership because he's not going to leave office! That was the tinfoilers take on the annual visit to Yakima by a unit from the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force back when I was a 5th Army MSCA planner... All pics are U.S. Army photos by Sgt. Austan Owen. A U.S. Soldier with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, loads his .50-caliber machine...

While our Vets get harassed out of our National Memorials, look who's getting the National Mall wide open for themselves: Illegal Aliens, of course. Article: HERE BOQ

...and he's a Marine. Figures.

1. Congrats to the Operators and support folks who pulled off those two ops this week. 2. Congrats to the President for authorizing them, and *probably* not micro-managing them from the situation room. 3. Boo to the people who insist on identifying which units in the SpecOps world are doing what, where, and when. Mystery, even in the form of an "open secret" is a weapon in and of itself.