December 2009 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Why The Kids Suspect Mom is Santa

Totally inappropriate for this fine, upstanding site. So, am hosting it over at my place. Up front, I give spew and keyboard alerts, and it is semi-safe for work (SSFW). LW

Published Fri, Dec 25 2009 7:51 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Humor

Merry Christmas! On Earth, Peace to Men of Goodwill

To all of you who celebrate the day, I wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas. To those who celebrate other events, may they be rich and full for you. While Christmas Dinner in Iraq will always be one of my most treasured memories, today gave me a...

Published Fri, Dec 25 2009 4:53 AM by BLACKFIVE

Special Ranger-Up Deal for Blackfive Readers

Nick, El Presidente of Ranger Up, has authorized all Blackfive readers a 25% discount on Ranger Up merchandise for the holidays. The Coupon Code (all caps): BLACKFIVE The Deal: 25% off The Time: Until December 11th at midnight. Merry Christmas! And thanks...

Published Wed, Dec 09 2009 7:14 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

French comments on US military

We at Blackfive have a long history of showing love to our French allies. Actually since Sarkozy was elected it has been kinda fun to have them back on the team. Here is an article about what their troops think of ours. Good stuff. Subject: French view...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 4:32 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: 1 Post That Started It All

Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

My neighbor who is way into Halloween, is shockingly way into Christmas. Looks like a kick ass winter storm is heading to DC as well, I'm in. I guess it's time to record another edition of Walkin' in a Sniper Wonderland. And this is right...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 6:17 AM by BLACKFIVE

Baby Nourah

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Jason Hickman holds Noor Hassam Oudah during a celebration in her honor in Baghdad, Dec. 9, 2009. The 1-year-old known as “Baby Nourah” was born blind with congenital cataracts. With help from their families and friends, North Carolina...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 4:09 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Blackfive Live Blog the Reactions to the President's Afghan Plan tonight

Hope to see you here at 7pm CST...

Published Tue, Dec 01 2009 5:06 AM by BLACKFIVE

Military Times Covers CJ Grisham

The Military Times group has profiled, in all four service editions, CJ Grisham and the hell he and his family are going through. Bouhammer has the story and you really need to go read it. You can also find a bit more at This Ain't Hell, and Blackfive...

Published Mon, Dec 07 2009 7:35 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Knight Center Foreign Policy- Iraq & Afghanistan

The Foreign Policy seminar saved the best for last (more video here) and we got to hear about Iraq from Judith Yaphe, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University and Qubad Talabani, representative...

Published Mon, Dec 07 2009 12:34 PM by BLACKFIVE

Op Ed in the Washington Times on Counterterror

I have a piece in today's Washington Times about the problems with backsliding to a law enforcement model for fighting terrorism. After spending last weekend at the rally in NYC to protest the asinine idea of trying KSM there, it is brutally obvious...

Published Tue, Dec 08 2009 1:56 PM by BLACKFIVE

Obama's team walks back his deadline

Obama's National Security Adviser and his Sec Def have been working very hard to convince the world that the deadline announced in the President's speech wasn't a deadline. Bottom Line....for all who matter, Deadline.

Published Sun, Dec 06 2009 4:13 AM by BLACKFIVE

Hackers grab drone footage

The Wall Street Journal reports that hackers in the combat zones are downloading video feeds of our drone surveillance and attack aircraft. In a smart-alec response, I put up on my Twitter page: Blackfive RE: WSJ on Drone Hackers :Get back at hackers...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 3:33 AM by BLACKFIVE

Coming to America- Gitmo in the Midwest

I think Jonah Goldberg said it best. An enterprising soul might start selling "Rio Got the Olympics and All I Got Were These Lousy Terrorists" t-shirts. The reasons why this is a bad idea are many. The weird thing is watching the Illinois pols...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 12:07 AM by BLACKFIVE

NORAD Tracks (and Protects) Santa!

It's that time of year again. We would like to remind you that your kids can take part in helping NORAD track and protect Santa as he makes way from the North Pole to deliver presents. Why does this program exist? In 2005, Brenda Freeman (mother of...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 4:35 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Story Time w/ Uncle J- Technicolor Savages

In a continuation of the tale that begin with Habu the pit viper is not your friend, we now will hear of a re-creation of a spear and shields charge during a guerrilla warfare exercise. Zulu Dawn redux.

Published Wed, Dec 09 2009 2:23 PM by BLACKFIVE

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