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  • Of the Troops, For The Troops....

    I work with quite of few former infantrymen, and I get quite a bit of crap from them. Yesterday though, I only heard one thing from them as they watched the news coming from Fort Hood. Thank God for the Military Police Corps... There are going to be recognition...

  • Fort Hood Shooting - Aftermath

    First, Soldiers' Angels is gathering cards for the families of the fallen and the wounded. SOLDIERS' ANGELS STANDING BY FOR FT. HOOD-- Collecting cards and NEW stuffed animals for the families and children of the fallen/wounded heroes. Please...

  • Fort Hood Shootings

    Update: LTG Coe briefs. 12 Dead. 31 wounded. 1 Shooter killed was a soldier. the other two may be accomplices or shooters. Weapons were handguns. UPDATE: Wounded now at THIRTY. UPDATE: MSNBC has more info (emphasis is mine): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...

  • Some expert commentary on the CIA's Italian Job

    Yesterday I asked WTF about the CIA rendition op that ended up with 23 CIA personnel convicted of kidnapping for scarfing up a radical cleric. Today at NRO an expert answers definitively, poor tradecraft and bureaucrats trying to justify their existence...

  • Stryker problems in Afghanistan?

    There is a piece in the Washington Times today about possible problems using the Stryker in Afghanistan. It raises some scary points and if anyone has insight on this please pipe up, or email me and I will follow up. Since they arrived at the outpost...

  • Don't hate the playa

    I really love posting pics of me at one of my many mobile offices. And yes I realize that makes me a cruel ***. So be it. The only downside is that I am missing the event at Capitol Hill and MK Hammer says it's rocking, c'est la vie. Global domination...

  • 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...

  • Video of Israeli arms ship capture

    h/t reader Matt B. In case anyone wondered just how much weaponry the Iranians wanted to get to Hezbollah, watch this. It is stunning just how heavily they were arming them. Hmmm, something on the the horizon? Making sure their proxies are ready to go...

  • Aircraft Bringer Inner Dude.

    Reader Tom C sends along a gem. I'm pretty sure this was Matt's first MOS.

  • Manhunting

    This dovetails so nicely with Jimbo's post on the Italian kidnapping/rendition case: The Joint Special Operations University's publication on "manhunting." This is not just targeted killing or detention, but encompasses a range of behaviors...

  • Italians convict 23 Americans in rendition case

    This looks like it could get ugly for a number of reasons. MILAN -- An Italian court on Wednesday convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel of orchestrating the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where...

  • An unhappy anniversary

    Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Iranian invasion of the United States and the true beginning of our now decades long war with the Islamic regime. This humiliating incident where they seized our embassy and help hostage our citizens for 444 days...

  • Pappy Boyington

    Producer/Director Kevin Gonzalez passed on this great information that we wanted to get out to you. If anyone is in the DC area on Veteran's Day, 11 November, try to stop by the US Navy memorial at 1:30 for a new film on Pappy Boyington, the US Marine...

  • 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...

  • 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...
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