February 2010 - BlackFive

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  • Murtha's Legacy

    Shawn Bryan is a friend of BLACKFIVE and a recon Marine who served in Haditha, Iraq just before the infamous shootings there occurred. He has never taken kindly to the betrayal of those Marines when John Murtha called them cold-blooded murderers and today...
  • "Stolen Valor" law under attack

    You knew it had to come: The federal courts are wrestling with a question of both liberty and patriotism: Does the First Amendment right to free speech protect people who lie about being war heroes? At issue is a three-year-old federal law called the...
  • Choosing to kill rather than capture?

    I have praised President Obama for his continued use of drone strikes to take out terrorists. It is a direct way to create dead tangos and has the indirect effect of making them wonder whether they are being watched 24/7. However it is not and should...
  • Dead tangos to stack like cordwood

    Getting back to something we can all groove about, Mr. Roggio has a report on a Predator swarm. I like the way that sounds. A swarm of unmanned US aircraft pounded an al Qaeda camp today in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Five...
  • In the Crosshairs- Interrogation Follies

    The White House and Justice Department are spinning at warp speed trying to change the narrative on their epic goat screw regarding the panty bomber's interrogation. Bottom line is they are terrorist first and that should rule their world. If they...
  • Roundtable: Cobra Gold 10

    We spoke with LTG Benjamin R. Mixon about this year's Cobra Gold exercise in Thailand. (Transcript is here.) Cobra Gold has been a tremendously important exercise for the US and our allies in Thailand for a long time now, but since the Tsunami of...
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  • Just how evil is the Taliban?

    This account is from Meena, a 13 year-old Pakistani girl who grew up around the Taliban. While you read this (and it would behoove you to read the entire piece), remember that Barack Obama seeks to pay off the same Taliban with your tax dollars. From...
  • BG Poseur McSoulPatch arrested

    The mighty forces of the Milblogosphere conspired together to take out an egregious wanker in a poster case for the Stolen Valor Act. It was a group effort, but the FBI eventually got on board and yesterday he got cuffed and stuffed. Story from local...
  • Medal of Honor: Lewis Millett

    If there is a picture of someone next to the word "warrior" in the dictionary, it would be Lewis Millett. Millett was the Company Commander in the 27th Infantry Regiment during the Korean War. On February 7, 1951on Hill 180 (present-day Osan...
  • The blame game

    Herschel Smith over at Captain's Journal is also looking at the current round of armchair Generalling going on and wonder if this should be farther up the food chain. So via the AR 15-6 process, we are on another head hunt in order to exonerate decisions...
  • John Yoo: Stallion

    John Yoo. What a stallion. DOJ bureaucrats in general and the Obama administration in particular threw him as hard as they could, as often as they could, under that 1962 Volkswagen bus otherwise known as the anti-American and self-loathing Left. And he...
  • USS Franklin Reunion

    Coming across the quarterdeck is this fantastic event: The crew of the USS Franklin (CV-13) will hole their 2010 reunion from the 18th to the 21st of March in Branson, Missoura! Specifically, at the Lodge of the Ozarks. Special event: Memorial service...
  • My favorite politician

    It is fairly well known that I am not a fan of politics or politicians. I think the kind of people who infest our Parliament of Hoors are by and large low and base. Well I have been exposed to a wonderful gentleman who serves as a Member of the Euro Brothel...
  • Punching Out, Where It Counts

    Winds of Change has an important post on the subject of something very basic: having a rifle and a doctrine that can engage the enemy at the range where he is usually encountered. In Afghanistan, that's out to about six hundred meters. While the infantryman...
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  • Update: 4 of the Fort Jackson 5 discharged

    While calling for the government to end their policy forbidding the mention or consideration of Islam or jihad, I pointed out the incident at South Carolina's Fort Jackson, where 09L translators were being investigated for possibly poisoning the food...