November 2009 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

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

Macho Skeet

Thanks to reader Scott for this vid. I have done something similar using LAWs.

Published Sat, Nov 21 2009 1:16 AM by BLACKFIVE

A third way in Afghanistan

There is a piece in the NY Daily News by MG Olson who was C/JTF Commander in Afghanistan in 2004/5. He advocates a pull back to the areas in the North and West and then attacks against the Taliban in the Pashtun belt as they make inroads. There is a third...

Published Tue, Nov 03 2009 1:34 AM by BLACKFIVE

Presidential Salute?

Our current CinC has taken a rash of crap on practically every issue imaginable, and deservedly so in most cases, but I've got to make note of something. He's dramatically improved his salute. My guess is, working around a bunch of Marines in...

Published Sun, Nov 01 2009 1:15 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Thanksgiving 2009: This Time At Home!

I've spent the last two Thanksgivings in Iraq, but not this year. It will be interesting to see how a real Thanksgiving dinner compares to the Army's! It's good to be home this year, but I hope you'll keep the deployed in your thoughts...

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 10:18 PM by BLACKFIVE

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

A novel from one of our own

Juliette Ochieng is an AF vet who blogs as Baldilocks. Turns out she can handle the long form as well and has announced the release of a book. My newest project is a novel entitled Tale of the Tigers. It is an interracial love story set at a southwestern...

Published Thu, Nov 05 2009 12:52 AM by BLACKFIVE

Warrior Legacy Foundation adapts new 'Fight Song' -

Blackfive posted up a few weeks ago a song and video that is just too HOOAH! not to listen to. You can find that post here for The Warrior Song. Since then, the Warrior Legacy Foundation has worked with the song's creator, Sean, and his team to 'adopt'...

Published Tue, Nov 10 2009 11:36 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs, Video Channels, Pop Culture, Music, Thank You, Internet!, Listening To

Bumped from CNN

I just got off the phone w/ the CNN producer and they are going to run the video of this firefight which I had posted previously, but they bumped me from the 3:30 eastern segment. That is worrisome as now they are free to characterize it to serve whatever...

Published Tue, Nov 03 2009 1:16 AM by BLACKFIVE

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

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

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

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

Challenge Coins

I recently ran into some interesting info online, and was wondering what the Blackfive readers had experienced. All in regards to challenge coins. For those that are not familiar, challenge coins are coins that are handed out by commanders, sergeants...

Published Thu, Nov 12 2009 1:27 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Humor, Military Humor, Pop Culture

My third favorite video of all time...

Right after Tombstone and the entire Firefly series comes this video of Blackfive friend and uber-badass (and SF sniper) Tim Kennedy and Recon Marine Jon Walsh. Both are multiple tour (intense) combat vets, both have just returned from training Marines...

Published Mon, Nov 09 2009 10:39 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Video Channels, Military Humor

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