February 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Terror attempt on US certain?

Says men who collectively have virtually no clue what is actually going on and can't get their vast and near useless bureaucracies to even play nice together. Feinstein asks and the farce begins. "What is the likelihood of another terrorist-attempted...

Published Wed, Feb 03 2010 12:31 AM by BLACKFIVE

Don't Ask Don't Tell poll, and what did Adm. Mullen say?

Yesterday, Quinnipiac University released a poll which shows that 59% of Americans support a repeal of the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT)" policy. Reading the results, however shows that those polled - and perhaps the pollsters...

Published Thu, Feb 11 2010 3:24 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

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...

Published Fri, Feb 12 2010 2:11 AM by BLACKFIVE

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...

Published Sun, Feb 14 2010 11:45 PM by BLACKFIVE

Stolen Valor Act gets taken to court

A world class loser in Colorado is attempting to avoid punishment for the crime of being a Poseur in the 1st degree. Jonn Lilyea at This aint Hell has the scoop as usual. Last month I wrote about the Denver Post going squishy on Richard Strandlof’s impending...

Published Thu, Feb 04 2010 2:48 AM by BLACKFIVE

Stolen Valor in action- BG Poseur McSoulPatch goes to court

UPDATE: Since Friday when Mr. McManus was arrested much as come to light including the documents charging him and as it turns out this is not his first round of playing dress up. MCMANUS was previously convicted in U.S. Federal Court in California in...

Published Mon, Feb 08 2010 2:20 AM by BLACKFIVE

Go Into the Blue for the Awesome View

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Kevin Owen sits on the ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft while flying over the mountains of Afghanistan after an airdrop mission, Feb. 2, 2010. Owen is a loadmaster assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron....

Published Sun, Feb 07 2010 11:39 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Picture of the Week

Corpse-man?

Is it too much to ask the Commander in Chief to learn how to pronounce the titles of those he commands? Look, anyone can have a bad day and mispronounce something. We've all done it. But when you do it twice within a minute, it's not mispronunciation...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2010 2:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

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...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 12:30 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

David Benke: Stallion

This guy is still tough on himself for not acting sooner. A real hero who did what had to be done. "It bugs me that he got another round off" And as our own Grim says, if he had cowered and not taken action, might have been killed, too. Mr....

Published Tue, Feb 23 2010 11:14 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

In the Crosshairs- Afghanistan Rules of Engagement

We are seeing the results of the tightened Rules of Engagement now in place in Afghanistan and they need a bit of work. The concept is valid, but the implementation is not correct yet. This story of Gen. Zinni's son calling a lawyer for permission...

Published Tue, Feb 23 2010 12:23 PM by BLACKFIVE

Medal of Honor History: Ingman and Kinsman

Today in Medal of Honor history: 1968: While on a reconnaisance-in-force mission near Vinh Long, Vietnam, Army Private First Class Thomas J. Kinsman dove on a grenade to shield his comrades from the blast. His actions saved seven of his teammates, and...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2010 8:35 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Someone You Should Know

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...

Published Sat, Feb 06 2010 12:09 AM by BLACKFIVE

Sites I forbid you to traffic

Do not go here because Bellavia and his crew of evil misfits are wrong in a David Lynch kinda way, and under no circumstances head over and scroll through the Sniper's equally Lynch-like oeuvre.

Published Sat, Feb 06 2010 8:14 AM by BLACKFIVE

IO as Shaping Operation

The BBC is running a piece today on IO in Afghanistan, as used to shape the battlespace for Operation Moshtarak. Take the current operation in Helmand. It has been broadcast widely in advance. It even has a not-so-catchy title: Operation Moshtarak, which...

Published Fri, Feb 12 2010 1:56 AM by BLACKFIVE

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