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  • A Red Star Cluster and a Backpack

    I can't speak for others, but I know that I've been asked two very important questions over the last few years: what happens if you get wounded, and what does Soldiers' Angels really do for the wounded. If you really want to know one part...

  • Scottish Sympathy & Libyan Perfidy

    Elise Cooper for BLACKFIVE With 9-11 approaching, Americans need to reflect on another terrorist mass murder: the downing of Pan Am Flight 103. Yesterday the Libyan terrorist Al Magrahi, who placed a bomb on that flight, was released by the Scottish government...

  • Robin Sage

    Soldiers train for a year to earn the Green Beret.The Special Forces Regiment will welcome 125 new members to a distinctive brotherhood during a Regimental First Formation Aug. 20, when the graduating class will don their Green Berets for the first time...
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  • Off to war

    Armed Liberal's oldest boy has just left for Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne. I have spoken with his son about the Army several times as he made his career choices and he is an impressive American. Many of you have done this same goodbye and the...

  • So, This is What it has come to...

    DISCLAIMER: Some of you readers of the fairer sex are probably going to be slightly offended at some of the things I am about to say. Please realize that I will try as much as possible to keep you guessing about what is "tongue in cheek" and...

  • Stupid Budget Tricks

    Max Boot has caught the administration pledging something that isn't supported by their budget numbers. Citing President Obama's recent speech to the VFW in Arizona, Boot says there's one claim he makes which bears much close scrutiny: That...
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  • Military spouses gain Federal hiring advantage

    And a good idea it is. Federal agencies will soon have the option of hiring certain military spouses without having them compete for jobs, under new guidelines issued by the Obama administration Wednesday. The guidelines apply to the spouses of military...

  • Taliban successful at killing Afghans

    One of the driving factors in the Anbar Awakening was the realization by the sheiks that the al Qaeda infiltrators they had either been partnering with or ignoring were killing far more innocent Iraqis than they were the occupyimg Americans. The sheiks...

  • Today is National Airborne Day - Part V

    In order to send the Air Force some love, there were two USAF Pararescue (PJs) HALO jump videos which are shared below and then one rockin' compilation video after the jump that's a must see: I swear, that @#%& is better than a cup of coffee...
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  • Iraqis will vote on US exit

    The Iraqi Prime Minister has asked for a vote on when US troops will leave the country. If approved this could speed up the timeline for our withdrawal or possibly it could extend it. There hasn't been an approval by the parliament to hold such a...

  • Rendition continued

    According to the NYTimes: The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but will monitor their treatment to insure they are not tortured, administration...
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  • Department of Mis-direction- Let's destroy the CIA

    Step away from the healthcare quagmire and let's go back to those golden days of yesteryear when we were all focused on the Bush crime family. It is a tough job to be involved in any aspect of counter-terrorism when a large chunk of the "thought...

  • ISAF COIN Guidance published

    h/t Abu Mookie Gen. McChrystal has published a seven page guide discussing how to conduct COIN operations and while I don't have any real quarrels with it, there isn't much there, there. I would summarize it as: Make friends with the Afghans,...

  • North Korea shows clenched fist

    Show a little love to Billy Clinton and you ought to be able to proliferate a little weaponry and make some scratch, eh? Apparently not. Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship carrying North Korean-manufactured munitions, detonators...

  • Osprey Sunset

    A MV-22 Osprey soars into the sky, escorting Marines after successfully completing a company size raid during a raid course on Camp Lejeune, N.C., Aug. 19, 2009. The Osprey crew is assigned to Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron 162, 24th Marine Expeditionary...
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