March 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Stolen Valor - Marine impostor sentenced

This pretend Marine was sentenced in US Federal Court. A Palm Springs man who wore a Marine Corps uniform with medals and bragged about fighting in a battle in Iraq was sentenced Monday to a year of probation, authorities said. Steven Douglas Burton,...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 2:32 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Veterans Running for Office

Russ Vaughn, the Milblog Poet Laureate, posts up about veterans who are running for public office over at American Thinker. ...As a former non-commissioned officer, it is my observation that the system winnows out those with problems adhering to these...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 1:34 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

US Army PWND By Aussie Hacker

Via Wired: Wikileaks presents a “threat to the U.S. Army” and publishes “potentially actionable information” for targeting military personnel, according to a classified intelligence report posted Monday on the whistleblowing site. The 32-page report entitled...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 2:32 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs, Humor, Military Humor

In the Crosshairs- Team America

Just like clockwork, Hollywood makes a hate America movie and America hates it. I guess they just have money to throw away. They need to make House to House into a movie. Matty reminded me that I failed to add a content warning to the last vid, so be...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 12:28 PM by BLACKFIVE

Counterterror schizophrenia

I have a piece up at the American Security Council Foundation's site that discusses the disconnect in our policies regarding how we deal with captured terrorists v. those we just vaporize out in the field. Our counterterror policy is suffering from...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 4:31 AM by BLACKFIVE

Petraeus asks to add Israel & Palestine to AO

There is an element within the US foreign policy establishment that believes that virtually every problem we have with Arab and/or Muslim countries can be tied to our support for Israel. They take the realpolitik view that since this is what their counterparts...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 2:21 AM by BLACKFIVE

Separated at Birth

Two dashing former operators bonded together by their love of booze, bad Hawaiian shirts, lunch blisters,and quality hair. Matty O' Blackfive & Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell) from Burn Notice

Published Sun, Mar 14 2010 3:03 PM by BLACKFIVE

The Gunny speaks

Military Times recently interviewed R. Lee Ermey, combat veteran of Vietnam and Drill Instructor extraordinaire, on important subjects such as Don't Ask Don't Tell, rules of engagement, tattoos, and stationary. A couple of excerpts (emphasis mine...

Published Sun, Mar 14 2010 5:24 AM by BLACKFIVE

Matt Damon: How to turn $100million dollars into $15million in cold, hard cash

Longtime B5 reader Tom W. made me feel all warm inside when he commented that Matt Damon's star power in "Behind the Green Zone Door" has, so far, netted his financiers a whopping $5 million return on a $100 million investment. According...

Published Sat, Mar 13 2010 5:08 PM by BLACKFIVE

San Antonio Hotel view

This is the view off our patio in San Antone. That sound you hear is beers being popped and prepping the battlefield for this evening.

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 6:07 AM by BLACKFIVE

Tom Hanks should stick to making films

I'm not going to go on a rant about Tom Hanks recent remarks about why we fought the Japanese during WWII, but I do have a comment or two to make. He said: Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 6:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

Rebecca Cusey reviews "Green Zone"

Rebecca Cusey reviews Matt Damon's Green Zone: This film will appeal to people who hold Bush responsible for everything from masterminding 9/11 to their grandmother's halitosis. It offers up a neat, easy explanation for why we did not find WMDs...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 3:16 AM by BLACKFIVE

Someone You Should Know - COL Rick Welch

I had the honor of working with COL Rick Welch, US Special Forces, from time to time. He's been in Iraq literally for years -- divisions come and go, but the tribes won't let him go. I asked MG Wolff if he were still around, and this is what he...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 12:00 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

Roundtable: MND-C Commanding General Terry Wolff

We had a roundtable yesterday that I'm going to break out into two parts. Speaking was Major General Terry Wolff, currently commanding Multinational Division - Center. MND-C was "the Surge Division" when it was created in 2007, with its...

Published Thu, Mar 11 2010 11:51 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Forgotten and Faded?

A review of the new Pacific series on HBO in the NYT today includes this line:''Those battlegrounds became famous, but they have since faded from the collective memory in a way that the Normandy invasion or the London blitz have not. This is an...

Published Thu, Mar 11 2010 11:21 PM by BLACKFIVE

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

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