Argghhh!

There is only one Medal awarded for actions on this day. The recipient lived to receive the award.Vietnam. Gunny Kellogg was *glad* on that day for all the mud.KELLOGG, ALLAN JAY, JR. Rank and organization: Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps (then S/Sgt.), Company G, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. place and date: Quang Nam province, Republic of Vietnam, 11 March 1970. Entered service at: Bridgeport, Conn. Born: 1 October 1943, Bethel, Conn. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and...

Then, her status changed to POW.Said former POW was found roundly abusing her captors, abuse was immediately turned on her rescue team whom she addressed as "you fat ***" while demanding to know why her "country had forgotten her for three days!" Things calmed down after the third dinner as the food in "the cage" was "pooze" although she shunned the bed, preferring to sleep outside under her hedge where she had to beat the crap out of the cat from next to reclaim...

There are five Medals awarded for actions on this day, none of them posthumous. They start with the Civil War, move on to two naval lifesaving awards, and end with World War II and Vietnam.Civil War. The Auld Soldier would be proud of this soldier, having been in the same position.TRAYNOR, ANDREW Rank and organization: Corporal, Company D, 1st Michigan Cavalry. Place and date: At Mason's Hill, Va., 16 March 1864. Entered service at: Rome, N.Y. Birth: Newark, N.J. Date of issue: 28 September 1897...

News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.

...on the joys of mass-produced-from-the-education-schools mediocre mouth-breathing teachers whose idea of history is to at best parrot the thankfully-no-longer-writing Howard Zinn while showing the-sadly-still-filming Michael Moore's movies to save on all that labor of preparing actual lesson plans and critically thinking and stuff, but, well, Chuck did it for me . For that matter, so did Uncle Jimbo and Laughing Wolf . Or Commander Salamander. I got nothing to add.

Giving an Army helo crew a very rare distinction.As Heartless Lib reports from "Somewhere in Afghanistan:"No, I didn't get to see him.But I will note that his transit between Kabul and Bagram was not done with USMC helos, but Army ones belonging to 3rd CAB, the "Wings of the Marne."So for two short flights, that one lucky bird had the rarely used callsign of "Army One."And they didn't break the airplane, they delivered their cargo, and they get to swagger just...

Because I know you wanted to know. The bullet is formed integral to the cartridge case as is blown free upon firing....

As we learn more about what that narcissistic jackwagon Snowden *actually* took and has distributed, a couple of thoughts come to mind. 1. When did the concept of "Secret * Compartmentalized * Infomation" go out with window with regard to System Geeks? I.e., how the hell did we allow ourselves to build an IT infrastructure that apparently had no internal limits on sysadmins? 2. Where are the Husband Kimmel and Walter Short of this disaster? Who is going to lose their job because they're...