November 2009 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

President to unveil strategy tonight

Well the long-awaited day is here and tonight we will here President Obama's revisit to his new strategy for Afghanistan. Reports have the number for a troop reinforcement at 34,000 which is short of what Gen. McChrystal called his medium risk option...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 11:28 PM by BLACKFIVE

Headline about War Tax almost right

The Hill has this headline about Rep. Obey's call for a war tax. Democratic war tax proponent Obey calls expected troop surge a 'fool's errand' Close guys, but this is more accurate. Fool Obey calls for Democratic war tax. Troop surge...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 11:10 PM by BLACKFIVE

Obama to be served an indictment at Nobel ceremony

Check out how and why this could happen, due to our return to a law enforcement mentality about terrorism.

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 10:33 PM by BLACKFIVE

Into The Light: LTC James Gentry

Some posts are easier to write than others, and some are hard in parts and easy in others. It is easy to honor Lt. Col. James C. Gentry, who retired in 2008 from the Indiana National Guard. He was the cousin of someone I work with and consider both colleague...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 9:47 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Fallen But Never Forgotten, Gentry, National Guard, hexavalent chromium, Iraq, Lt. Col. James C. Gentry, Indiana, KBR, Health Care for Veterans Exposed to Chemical Hazards Act of 2009, Indiana National Guard

Honoring the Sacrifices: Police Officers in Washington State

A reader writes to point out that the Washington police officers killed at a coffee shop were all married men with children, and that it is right we remember the police who serve as well as those in the military. I asked for, and have now received, information...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 7:18 AM by BLACKFIVE

Michael Moore's letter to Obama on Afghanistan

Well this is just too rich to ignore. Michael Moore is offering the Obama his sage advice on military strategery. I was gonna compare that to me advising Mikey on film making, but I realized I actually make videos with a measurable level of expertise...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 2:57 AM by BLACKFIVE

On Afghanistan Victory

I've been saying for the last two months (sometimes with the media so it's documented) that President Obama will deploy more troops to Afghanistan. After all, he made it his fight, picked McChrystal to run it, and appeared to be working to find...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 12:17 AM by BLACKFIVE

Story Time w/ Uncle J- Spanky & the Shark

I attended a short-lived course run by the same Scuba *** who teach the Combat Diver qual at Key West called the Waterborne Infiltration Course. It was by any account an epic adventure and I have many tales to tell about it. One of my favorites is this...

Published Sun, Nov 29 2009 1:18 PM by BLACKFIVE

Is the "Brothers" movie just a big, Ugly Military Stereotype, or is that jus the trailer?

Please take a moment to look at this synopsis for a movie called "Brothers," with Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tobey Maguire: When a decorated Marine goes missing overseas, his black-sheep younger brother cares for his wife and children...

Published Sun, Nov 29 2009 10:18 AM by BLACKFIVE

Afghanistan? Tora Bora? Bush's fault forever

I grow bored of rehashing something we have been rehashing so long that the links to where I did an exhaustive analysis of it at Madison.com are no longer even active. So Tora Bora, let me make this simple. 1. We invade A-Stan with small number of Spec...

Published Sun, Nov 29 2009 8:13 AM by BLACKFIVE

Tom Friedman on the Terrorist "Narrative"

An unusually common sense piece from Ton Friedman in the NY Times. He takes up a question that many of us would consider common sensical but which most of his compatriots in the media have been willfully ignoring, the terrorist motivation of Nidal Hassan...

Published Sun, Nov 29 2009 1:15 AM by BLACKFIVE

The return of UncleJimbo.com

Yes folks your prayers have been answered, I turned unclejimbo.com back on. I have way too much to complain about that has nothing to do with the military, so to quote myself: I need a place where the vicious beatdowns, vitriolic rants and profanity-laced...

Published Sat, Nov 28 2009 5:56 AM by BLACKFIVE

Accusations of abuse against our troops & the ICC

I have a bad feeling that we are going to be seeing a lot of folks claiming that our forces have roughed them up. First of all it is right in the al Qaeda training manual. They are told to start whining early and often that they were tortured or otherwise...

Published Sat, Nov 28 2009 5:03 AM by BLACKFIVE

Concrete Bob Update: From the Man Himself

Via Twitter: Tubes out. Recovery looking better. I think if he could have he would have blogged his own surgery; but, since he couldn't, he will blog the recovery. All the best to you on that journey my friend! LW

Published Fri, Nov 27 2009 11:43 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Donald R. McGlothlin

Thanks to Matt's post about Corporal Javier Perez, and the magic of the Google machine, I learned a bit more about one of the Marines who died that day, and who Corporal Perez was trying to reach when he was injured. His name is Donald R. McGlothlin...

Published Fri, Nov 27 2009 6:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

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