March 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Green Zone- Same as it ever was

Well after putting out about a dozen US is evil war flicks, Hollywood slipped up and put out the Hurt Locker which was just silly. That appears to be their limit for not hating on the military and our country, because it is sure sounding like Green Zone...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 11:29 PM by BLACKFIVE

This week in US military history

From W. Thomas Smith, Jr.'s series at Human Events: Mar. 2, 1943: Elements of the U.S. Army Air Forces and Royal Australian Air Force intercept and all-but-destroy an entire Japanese troop-transport convoy in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Several...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 11:41 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Anti-war vet runs for Congress

Adam Kokesh is a real piece of work. Once a leading light in the wackadoo anti-war movement including IVAW, he now has cleaned up a bit and is running as a Republican for Congress in New Mexico and sadly doing much better than he should. Tim Sumner has...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 11:15 PM by BLACKFIVE

Two Transport Systems

Students from the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL class 281 participate in a rock portage exercise on Coronado Island, Calif., Feb. 23, 2010. Rock portage is one of many physically demanding evolutions included in the first phase of training. Navy SEALs...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 3:43 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

Guest hosting Frank Gaffney's radio show

Did Frank's Secure Freedom Radio show this afternoon. The audio is here. Secure Freedom Radio is pre-recorded and airs week days at 9 PM just before Dennis Miller on 570 AM WTNT in Washington, DC, 9 AM on CNN 1190 in Dallas, and is syndicated on 36...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 7:41 AM by BLACKFIVE

Imagine this milestone 2 years ago

Sorry I've been absent for a while - I've been fighting this health care monstrosity over at QandO and doing a lot of traveling trying to make a living. But this week something slapped me in the face and made me stop and think for a moment. Sometime...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 6:50 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

Solemn Farewell

Here's a blog post about a Ramp Ceremony at Kandahar : ...Several of the soldiers were wounded. One of the soldiers lost his fight. This afternoon, I had the honor of sending him and another soldier home to his family. It's called a ramp ceremony...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 5:01 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Fallen But Never Forgotten

Iraq Today: It isn't Wisconsin. And it isn't 2007.

So what's going on in Iraq? It isn't Wisconsin, and it isn't 2007. Jack from Jack's Texas Music has another of his small-story updates: Take a gander. And for one reason or another, his visitor tracking doesn't work. He doesn't...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 3:24 AM by BLACKFIVE

Two Views

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot conducts an unrestricted vertical climb from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during Exercise Cope North, Feb. 15, 2010. The U.S. Air Force and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force conduct the exercise annually at...

Published Mon, Mar 01 2010 11:41 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Picture of the Week

In the Crosshairs- Al Gore beatdown

I have had enough of the Goracle and his hypocritical eco-crisis-mongering as my previous fisking of his NY Times editorial made clear. But he is so aggravating that he needed to catch some verbal violence as well. (Language warning, shockingly).

Published Mon, Mar 01 2010 11:27 PM by BLACKFIVE

Job Opportunity in Indiana

Got this from one of our favorite readers/commenters. Uncle J, A friend of mine here in Raleigh is potentially looking for an electrical engineer to head up an office in Evansville, IN. He is a Navy Vet who owns his own business. I know we've got...

Published Mon, Mar 01 2010 11:22 PM by BLACKFIVE

Catching Saddam

Slate has a series they have just begun to publish on how Saddam got caught. There are a lot of stories told about catching Saddam, and what happened after he was caught; but any of you who were involved, or who have first hand knowledge, pay attention...

Published Mon, Mar 01 2010 1:58 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Interview w/ a Vegan- Matty O' Blackfive

In the second installment of the Pulitzer Prize nominated series Interview w/ a Vegan, David Bellavia's increasingly likely to be gutted and put on a rotisserie Vegan buddy has a Q&A with our own BLACKFIVE.

Published Mon, Mar 01 2010 12:12 AM by BLACKFIVE

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