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  • 18 Million

    Our eighteen millionth visitor came to us yesterday from our Farm Team. Thanks, Jonn and the guys at This Ain't Hell! Stormbringer (another long tab and milblogger) sent us our 18,000,001 visit. Please visit those fine blogs (number 17,999,999 came...

  • 23 Forever

    Happy Birthday, Mike! Related: Metamorphosis Remembrance of Sergeant Michael Stokely: http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/09/remembering-mike-stokely.html http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/08/robert-stokely-remembers.html http://www.blackfive.net/main...

  • Return of the Russian Bear

    There was never much chance that the Russians would sit quietly and allow all of their former fiefdoms run their own affairs. The break up of the Soviet Union had absolutely nothing to do with a lack of desire for hegemony and everything to do with the...

  • My Sartorial Suitability

    Since the infamous "yellow pants incident" many have been questioning my ability to properly dress myself for high class events. Well aside from my momentary lapse into potential yuppie scumbagdom, I am quite capable of keeping some quality...

  • Attention Sky Six - Paratrooper Inbound

    Our friend Ponsdorf posts that his father-in-law passed away this morning. His father, SSG Dan Leffler, was an artilleryman in the 82nd in WWII. According to Pons, he had a bronze star and had jumped into Sicily and rode a glider into Holland. Pon put...

  • COL David Maxwell on Unconventional Warfare and the USSF

    Our friend COL Maxwell has a piece at Small Wars Journal on the subject of why the Special Forces train for unconventional warfare (UW). It's easy to understand the sensitivity of the question by reading the definition of UW: "Activities conducted...
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  • Some Monday radio

    I'm guest-hosting Frank Gaffney's Secure Freedom Radio show today and if you gotta have it, you can get it streaming here at 5 pm Eastern. I will post the podcast links when they go live. I will have David Bellavia on as a guest because I miss...

  • The Annual Milbloggie Awards

    You can go to Milblogging.com for information on how to vote and here is where you can see the categories for the awards. BlackFive was nominated (thank you, nominators!) for best Military Veteran blog. Right now, the farm team is out front (and that's...
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  • Military Roundup 28 Apr 2010

    Photo of the Day: U.S. soldiers marching through streets of Britain enroute to their landing craft for the invasion of Europe US-born cleric Awlaki 'proud' to have taught al Qaeda operatives Hundreds of Somali troops trained with millions of U...
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  • Restrepo - The Documentary

    Details here at Kitchen Dispatch. This is a movie that I will want to see. It involves more than a few people that we have highlighted here over the last few years (and many of them that we have met).
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  • Army Birther on G-man's show

    I haven't had time to listen yet, but I'm sure he comes across as a thoughtful, educated, informed ultra-maroon. Lt Col. Terry Lakin, along with his lawyer Paul Jensen, tells G Gordon Liddy why he is refusing to deploy to Afghanistan until President...

  • Team Rubicon on the Hugh Hewitt Show Today

    You can catch the founders of Team Rubicon on the Hugh Hewitt show. They'll talk about the past two missions and the future of disaster response. At Hugh's site you can get a number to call in. He's on 6-9pm EST and you can listen live via...

  • Dead Tangos in Tikrit

    OK I gave it a day to see if once again reports of the deaths of these clowns were greatly exaggerated. Looks like they have actually assumed room temperature. From LWJ. Iraq's Prime Minister and the US military confirmed that al Qaeda in Iraq's...

  • In the Crosshairs- Me, Myself & I

    So this has been kind of a tough week. I mean I put on my sweetness and light, milk of human kindness, helping hand hat and what happens, haters everywhere. I can't believe the mean things people are saying about me on the interwebz. I am a sensitive...

  • Hope and Baseball - OPENING DAY

    "This is our year!" - Blackfive, Cubs Fan, said every year since 1976 "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his poverty no more."...
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