January 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Free the SEALs Radio Interview

I will be discussing the SEAL 3 Special Courts-Martial on the Andrea Shea King Show tonight at 9 PM. I hope to get as many fellow B5-ers as we can to tune in. We must get as many people active on this matter immediately. For the latest on the SEAL 3,...

Published Sun, Jan 10 2010 7:00 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Caring For The Defenders

Medal of Honor History - Gary Wetzel and Clarence Sasser

42 years ago, PFC Gary Wetzel was just ten days away from shipping home from Vietnam. The door gunner from the 173d Assault Helicopter Co. – the “Robin Hoods” – was on his second tour, and had already been shot down four times. On Jan. 8, 1968, near Ap...

Published Sun, Jan 10 2010 11:09 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Someone You Should Know

SOBs support the WLF

I mean other than most of our board members. We held a fundraising party for the Warrior Legacy Foundation last night and the Yale a capella group the Society of Orpheus & Bacchus, the SOBs, performed. I'd like to thank Franklin Raff, a former...

Published Sun, Jan 10 2010 9:22 AM by BLACKFIVE

A Video YOU.MUST.WATCH

There are few things as fun to watch as videos of The Greatest Generation. Add to that one that has airplanes in it and the combat pilots who flew them. Here, we have the P-51 and the Double Ace who commanded her, and a story you will treasure. Your weekend...

Published Sun, Jan 10 2010 6:09 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Caring For The Defenders, Film

Irony - White House "Chafes" At Afghan Surge's "Slow Pace"

The president who decided to again change strategies in Afghanistan after announcing his "new" and "comprehensive" strategy soon after taking office and then dithered for months before making a decision on the "surge" is...

Published Sat, Jan 09 2010 1:38 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

An Amazing Lady, Still Supporting The Troops

I haven't posted a lot of late, in part because of behind the scenes work for Cooking with the Wounded. One of the efforts underway has been reaching out to corporations, chefs, and celebrities asking for support (and participation). Of the current...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 11:09 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders, Soldiers' Angels, Cooking with the Wounded, Phyllis Diller, Project Valour-IT, Bob Hope, support the troops

F.O.B. Geronimo Resupply via Night Air Drop

As seen through a night-vision device, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Jason R. Moore and Pfc. Kurt M. Cahill push a supply bundle clear of its parachute lines and prepare it for loading onto a truck after an aerial drop near Forward Operating Base Geronimo...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 7:42 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Navy SEALs need your help!

If you value the sacrifice of the Navy SEALs have paid for your freedom, acquaint yourselves with the "SEAL 3" court martial situation. Please read these articles (here and here) that I published today, and follow the links to the defense funds...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 4:00 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs, Caring For The Defenders

Working in the Whiteout

A New York State airboat carrying ice rescue personnel from Coast Guard Station Burlington enforce a 1,500-foot safety zone around the 80-year old Champlain Bridge. The bridge, which had been closed to traffic for months, was demolished to make way for...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 2:43 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

The Hunt for bin Laden and the Slain C.I.A. Chief at F.O.B. Chapman...

Maggie's Notebook has some interesting information, correlation, and speculation about the slain CIA chief at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Chapman in Afghanistan and the 1990s hunt for bin Laden and President Obama's Deputy Security Adviser, John...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 2:32 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Fallen But Never Forgotten

Great Dead Tango news

The indispensable Bill Roggio reports at the Long War Journal that we got a big fish, the highest ranking al Qaeda leader since Zarqawi. Let the dancing begin. The former commander of al Qaeda's military is thought to have been killed in a mid-December...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 1:25 AM by BLACKFIVE

CIA needs to get back in the spy business

The CIA will be adding 6 new stars to it's memorial wall at it's Langley headquarters. My condolences go out to all of the families and I honor their service. This will bring the total number of CIA officers killed to 97 since it's formation...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 12:32 AM by BLACKFIVE

Jihad Gene blows one up

From the Great Reader an instant classic TNT by AC/DC (*a JihadGene re-write) oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi oi See me fly out of the airport On your security monitor screen Out for all the virgins I can get If you know what I mean Africans...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2010 11:26 PM by BLACKFIVE

Some praise for print journalism

Say what, you say, Uncle J praising a print product? Well obviously there is an angle here and that angle is me. I linked to the Op-Ed I had in the Washington Times yesterday about the Blackwater guards and being the online only kinda guy I am, I didn't...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2010 11:19 PM by BLACKFIVE

Paratrooper on Patrol captures mastermind behind his cousin's death

Over at Tankerbabe's place is a must read story.

Published Thu, Jan 07 2010 2:14 AM by BLACKFIVE

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