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  • IAEA says Iran can and is making nukes

    Hooray, we now live in such a safe world we can cancel missile defense and sit down with the peace-loving Mullahs....what's that?.....The IAEA said what?.....Well now, that sure makes us look foolish....what crappy timing we have....not just dissing...

  • Under Fire

    U.S. Army soldiers take their firing positions on a roof top after a mortar landed on Forward Operating Base Baylough in Zabul province, Afghanistan, Sept. 10, 2009. The soldiers are assigned to the Company A, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment. U.S...
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  • Ask an infantryman:

    Infantrymen, Your counsel is requested: ARMY WIFE STRUGGLES TO ADJUST TO HUSBAND'S RETURN FROM IRAQ DEAR ABBY: My husband, "Rick," spent a year in Iraq. He has been home for 3 1/2 months. Before his return, the Army gave out a lot of information...

  • JD on Iraq v. Afghanistan at TIME

    SOG Media correspondent JD Johannes has his first video piece from his recent trip to Afghanistan up at TIME.com. He looks at the contrast between Iraq and Afghanistan from the soldier's perspective.

  • Friday at Walter Reed

    Tanker Babe has a couple of good posts about the cookout Friday for the wounded at Mologne House at Walter Reed, and then the Friday night Freepathon flag waving to counter the Code Pinkos. One of the biggest turn outs ever. Plenty of milbloggers to be...

  • Father embeds w/ fallen son's unit

    A touching story about a man who went to Iraq and embedded with the unit his son was serving with when he was killed. . After he buried Darrell "Skip" Griffin Jr. and after the sympathy calls faded, the elder Griffin, like every American who...

  • Isn't it sardonic?

    OK apropos of navel-gazing mostly, Herschel Smith paid me a few compliments while disagreeing with me on the Afghan ROE issue, and he got me thinking. Not about ROE, but about language. He said I was sardonic and while I understand it is a compliment...

  • A moment of truth on Afghanistan

    We are about to see just how much of a political animal Barack Obama is. He talked at length during the campaign season of personally sweeping through the Hindu Kush to purge the ghost of bin Laden. The war in Afghanistan needed to be won and he would...

  • I've Been AWOL

    Well, not exactly. Just busy as all get out this summer. 3 weeks on a carrier in June, a week in Monterey in July, a week in Nova Scotia in August, a week here, another week there. Heading for a week in Orlando (work/business) later Sept. I'll get...

  • True War Crimes

    We all see and even know people who feel our troops are doing bad things. Let's face it, some of the people we meet every day are bigots, no better than klansmen and neo-***, who feel that people in the military really are dumb, can't get a job...
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  • Totally engaged

    How's that appeasement policy working? The only chance that the Iranians will not have nukes by the end of Obama's term is named Binyamin Netanyahu, and that is a shame. In this image released Sunday Sept. 27, 2009, on Iranian state TV channel...

  • "Spy" agencies collectively have no clue

    The NY Times notes that the agencies responsible for telling us (the West) what is going on in Iran really don't know. There is a shocker. The Israelis, who have delivered veiled threats of a military strike, say they believe that Iran has restarted...

  • Reader Email - Vindication

    Received this email from Bill F. in Florida: Just a quick note that seems to be playing out all across the US. When flying into Tampa last week there were 10-12 Army and Air Force members on the plane, going home after a tour in Afghanistan. As we landed...

  • Did ROE in A-Stan lead to Marine deaths?

    The answer is no. Michelle Malkin has a post up now titled "Report: Rules of engagement led to soldiers’ deaths". I wrote her to explain why this is not the case.

  • Dead Tango time in Somalia

    I wanted to give this a little time before calling for the dead tango dance, but it looks like we got an important one. If the reports are correct it was this ***. Western intelligence agents have described the militant, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, as the...
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