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...also known as the trainwreck that is Michael Yon. This is my executive summary of the SA response: " Mike Yon is a puerile poopyhead. " Rich Lowe, of the Soldier's Angels Board of Trustees, is far more polite and professional , and goes into detail, under the fold.

My latest book, the first installment of the Sequoyah trilogy, is now available on Amazon. Plus, it's free today and Monday! The Long Way Home features space battles, mysterious aliens, cool pilots, hidden planets, and a spot of relativistic bother. Plus, it is part of Sarah Hoyt's Human Wave SF movement--meaning a) somebody wins, b) something happens, and c) believes life is worth living. It's sad this would need pointing out, but these days it does.BTW, I am also a participant in Operation...

You're, to put it bluntly, a buffoon. "The sergeant major, citing his talks with thousands of Marines around the world, told committee members that Marines don't really care about compensation and benefits. Instead, he said, they only want to know who to fight next." I can totally agree with that. And it's part of your job, you puerile twit, to help take care of them while they focus on looking for the next fight. Just because they don't care doesn't mean they shouldn't...

Castle Denizen SKK (aka The Lasagna Detonator ) posted an Arisaka Challenge . Any takers? Boq

Gun c.arrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store. 'Nuff said.

The Red Chinese have raised their Maoist Banner over the South Lawn of the White House. The flag-raising seems befitting, since politicians of our own both parties, have sold our country lock stock and barrel to Peking. With over $1-Trillion in claims to our future Yankee Dollars, the scions of Mao have the right to make obvious their ownership of our country. In a way, I am glad that many Old Soldiers are not here any longer, to witness the depths to we have groveled our way into. Boq

Ten is roughly the average number of Medals awarded per day over the year. Yesterday there were no actions in our military history that caused a Medal to be awarded. Today, we make up for that, with twenty Medals, only one posthumous, spanning from the Civil War to Vietnam - with seventeen of them being for the same fight in 1890.Civil War, Stones River, Tennessee and Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi.RUSSELL, MILTON Rank and organization: Captain, Company A, 51st Indiana Infantry. Place and date: At...

There are seven Medals awarded for actions on this day. We open, as we often do, with the Civil War, and three Medals, all awarded well after the war was over.